Parlor is a games house you can carry in your pocket. Play Chess, Go, GeoQuest and Risk against ten characters who each have their own voice, personality and playing strength — driven by a language model running right on your phone. Climb the ranks, unravel a mystery, and dethrone the champion who never truly won.
10 rivals · each with a voice4 games · chess to conquestPlays offline · the AI thinks on-device
Real engines, not toys — a perft-verified chess engine, full Go rules, geography duels, and global conquest, each one playable against any character at their own strength.
Chess
A from-scratch, perft-verified engine with full rules, opening recognition, hints and takebacks. Rivals range from ~600 to ~2200 strength — and each plays in character.
full rulesper-rival Elo
Go
9×9 Go with legal placement, captures, ko, and area scoring with engine-assisted dead-stone removal. A Monte-Carlo-search AI, hosted by Zen the monk.
9×9MCTS AI
GeoQuest
Geography duels on a bundled offline world map — clue-guessing, flags and capitals, map-pin challenges. Test your atlas against a rival who never forgets a border.
offline mapquiz duels
Risk
Global conquest across 19 territories and 6 continents — reinforce, attack, fortify, with animated dice and continent bonuses. Strategy-aware AI that fights to its rival's temperament.
world mapconquest
// a look inside
The whole house, on your phone.
Real screens from Parlor — the parlor hub, the games, the rivals, and the boards you'll climb.
// meet the cast
Every rival is a character.
Ten distinct personalities — each fully voiced, with a catchphrase, a playing style, and a relationship with you that grows from dismissive to rival as you climb. Then five legendary guests arrive.
Pip
The Apprentice
Eager, nervous, and just learning the ropes. Everyone starts here.
Prof. Wynn
The Tutor
Patient and explanatory — plays to teach you the why, not just the win.
Aunt Mabel
The Matron
Sweet as pie, and quietly deadly. Don't let the knitting fool you.
Capt. Blackwood
The Privateer
All cannons, all the time. Storms the board and asks questions later.
Sir Reginald
The Aristocrat
Classical, principled, and faintly disappointed in your opening.
Zen
The Monk
Serene and patient. Hosts the Go board and rarely raises his voice.
Roxy
The Hustler
Fast, sharp, and never quiet. Will trash-talk you the whole way down.
Glitch
The Machine
Deadpan and relentless. Plays cold, clean lines and never tilts.
Viktor Steel
The Grandmaster
Holds the throne, undefeated — but never truly won it. The final climb.
Nova
The Rival
Adapts to your level move for move. Your mirror, and your measure.
// legendary guests
Five legends, earned or unlocked.
Climb far enough — or unlock Parlor Premium — and the masters of strategy pull up a chair, each fully voiced and unmistakably in character.
Napoleon
The Emperor
Audacity, then more audacity. Attacks like the whole board is his to take.
Sun Tzu
The Strategist
Wins before the first move. Every position becomes a lesson in the art of war.
Machiavelli
The Schemer
Charming, ruthless, and three moves ahead of whatever you thought you could trust.
Cleopatra
The Sovereign
Commands the table like a court — and loses nothing she means to keep.
Ada Lovelace
The Visionary
Plays the game as pure logic, a century ahead of everyone else at the table.
// more than matches
A whole evening at the Parlor.
Beyond single games, Parlor is wrapped in a story — a ladder to climb, a tournament to survive, and a mystery to solve.
01
The Climb
A campaign up the ranks from Pip to Viktor's throne. Beat each rival, earn titles, and watch the story unfold across every game.
02
The Decathlon
A roguelike tournament run: pick games in rotation, score chips × multiplier, and spend coins on stacking charms between rounds.
03
The Casebook
The Founder has vanished. Uncover clues by playing, then name a culprit, a weapon, and a place to solve the mystery of the Parlor.
04
Daily Challenge
A fresh one-move puzzle every day, hosted by a rotating rival, with a streak counter to keep you coming back to the table.
05
Play together
Pass & Play on one phone, Nearby over Bluetooth, or online via Game Center — with the cast heckling from the sidelines.
06
The banter engine
Rivals react to 20+ game moments — first blood, a hung queen, a brilliant move — with hand-written lines, voiced and never repetitive.
// the brains
Your opponents think on your phone.
Every character's personality, banter and voice is driven by a language model running on-device — so solo play needs no internet at all. A defensive game engine keeps the AI honest: it never plays an illegal move or above its stated strength.
Each rival has an ElevenLabs voice with an on-device fallback, pre-rendered lines bundled for instant playback, and premium streamed voices when you're online. The result is a game suite with the soul of a tabletop night.
An offline-first strategy parlor for iPhone, with accessibility built in from the first move — VoiceOver, colorblind-safe boards, a dyslexia-friendly font, and one-handed play. In active development — want to know when it opens its doors?
