Fàájì Games

Play like you're home.

Yoruba games, old and new. Go on, the near row is yours. Ẹ jẹ́ ká ṣeré.

Play Ayò Ọlọ́pọ́n

Sowing only. Captures and bragging rights are in the real game.

Alátakò · the other side Your move
You · tap a pit, arrow keys to move, Enter to sow

Out now on the web

Ayò Ọlọ́pọ́n. The real thing.

A proper wooden board in 3D, with the rules the way they're actually played: sow anticlockwise, capture in twos and threes. Play the computer, your friends, or enter a tournament like the Lagos Open. In your browser, on any phone.

Play in your browser How to play
App Store · soon Google Play · soon
Classic rules, move one. Every seed is dropped by hand.
Ayò Ọlọ́pọ́n on a wooden board: a tournament match notice reads 'Your match against bola is ready, Lagos Open, Final'. The in-game tournament screen for the Lagos Open, listing players adewale and bola, both still in. The tutorial 'Meet the Board' over a 3D wooden board with four seeds in each of twelve pits.

Ilẹ̀ eré

The board so far.

Every game is a pit. Full ones are ready to play. Hover or tap to sow.

  1. Out now

    Ayò Ọlọ́pọ́n

    The seed-sowing classic. Strategy, since before anyone wrote down the rules.

    Play now

  2. Next on the board

    ???

    Coming 2027. We'll say more when the name stops changing.

  3. Kí ni ẹ máa ń ṣe nígbà tí ẹ wà ní kékeré?

    What did you play growing up?

    Tell us. We might make it next. Or drop your email and we'll tell you when the next game is ready.

From ìgbà kan rí to right now.

Then

Classics, remade properly

Games that were old when your grandmother was young. Same rules, same arguments, new board.

Now

New games, Yorùbá first

Party games, word games, strategy. Written in the language first, translated second.

Always

Played together

One phone passed around, or two phones across a continent. Somebody still cheats.

Built in Nigeria

Made at home. Played anywhere.

Fàájì is the good time after the work is done. We're a small studio in Nigeria making the games we grew up with, and a few we wish we had. Built for the phone in your pocket and the data plan on it. Wherever you are, pull up a seat. Somebody's about to lose.