How was it?
What the publisher says about Tafl: viking chess
A Scandinavian strategy board game that was popular in the Middle Ages. In Scandinavian society, it was comparable to chess. The game has game variants that differ in: - board size: 7, 9, 11, 13 - victory conditions: bring the king to the edge or corner of the board. - king encirclement conditions: from two or four sides. - the number of attacking (black) and defending (white) pieces. You can play the game with artificial intelligence, with another person on one device, or with an opponent online in multiplayer mode. The attacking black pieces move first. Then the players move in turns. All pieces move vertically or horizontally to any num
Controls, as supplied: Mouse click or tap to play
Those are the studio's own words, reproduced as we received them and not checked by us. The feed occasionally describes a different game altogether, so treat it as a starting point rather than a fact.
We have not written about Tafl: viking chess ourselves yet. Every game we cover is taken apart and played first, so this page waits until that happens. The game above works either way.
Game details
- Developer
- GameMonetize partner studio
- Added here
- June 2023
- Technology
- HTML5
- Platforms
- Browser (desktop, mobile, tablet)
- Classification
- Puzzle
- Download size
- 2.1 MB
- Ad requests
- 2 (few)
- Has a save
- Yes
- Saved progress
- Kept by the game itself, in this browser on this device. It survives closing the tab and coming back, but it does not travel to another computer or phone, and clearing your browsing data erases it.
Measured by opening the game ourselves on 2026-09-11, not taken from the feed. Twelve seconds on a phone-sized screen, with ad requests counted and blocked rather than loaded.
