Capture GO
Go, without the intimidating part.
Download on the App Store
Go is four thousand years old and takes an afternoon to explain. Capture GO
teaches it in about a minute, by starting you on the capture game — Atari Go —
the variant Go teachers have used for generations to begin beginners.
The rule fits on one line: surround a stone, lift it off the board, you win.
What’s in it
- An opponent that runs on your iPhone. Five difficulty levels that
genuinely differ — level one plays like a real beginner, level five will
punish a loose stone. No account, no connection, and no move ever leaves your
device. The whole game works in airplane mode.
- A tutorial that explains itself. Every term is defined before it is used,
and you can skip or step back from any point.
- Shapes worth collecting. The tiger’s mouth, the bamboo joint, the ladder —
patterns Go players have been naming for centuries.
- Proverbs, short and old and more useful than they look.
- Full replay of every game you have played.
- Nigiri, the traditional way of deciding who takes black, played out on the
board.
- Capture goals of one, three or five stones, enforced under superko.
Built to be usable
Every control carries a VoiceOver label, the whole app scales with Dynamic Type
through the accessibility text sizes, and Reduce Motion is respected.
Available in English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish and
Simplified Chinese.
Free to play
Capture GO is free. There is no pay-to-win: optional boosts and cosmetic items
exist in the shop, and the entire game is playable without them.
Links
Questions, bugs or ideas: engin@yazilan.org