Morass product page. A calm, turn-based strategy game of territory on living terrain, for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Free, with no ads and no tracking.

On the App Store · v1.1

Morass

Claim the shifting ground.

A calm, turn-based strategy game about the hardest line to draw: the edge of what you hold. Place pins on living terrain and watch the border between your ground and theirs settle like water finding its level.

Free No ads No tracking Rated 4+
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A live Morass board: pins on terrain, territory redrawn after every move.
One universal app · iPhone, iPad, Mac & Apple Watch

After every move, Morass reads the terrain and redraws the borders, your ground against theirs. No timers, no noise. Just you, the board, and the slow tightening of an edge.

Learns in one round. Stays with you for a hundred.

Three taps to understand it; a long time to exhaust it.

Tapping an open spot to place a pin

1. Place a pin

Tap an open spot. Each pin extends your claim, shaped by the land around it.

Territory redrawing around a cliff ridge

2. Watch the ground answer

High ground reaches further; clustered pins harden into a stronghold; a cliff bends the border.

The end-card showing the final share of ground

3. Win the settle

When the borders stop moving, the larger share of ground takes it.

A game for a quiet minute, or a long duel.

Solo
Adaptive opponent
An AI that scales to your skill, and stays honestly beatable at the very top. It plays to give you a real game, not to roll over or humiliate.
Practice
Undo on, rating off
Try a line without consequence. Take a move back, follow a what-if, learn the terrain.
Pass-and-play
Two players, one device
Hand the phone across the table. Same board, same rules, no account needed.
Online
Quick match & friends
Turn-based matches and friend challenges through Game Center. Take your turn when it suits you.

Now on the Mac

One purchase covers every screen. On the Mac, the same quiet game opens in a resizable window with your games listed alongside the board. Nothing added, nothing louder, just more room to think.

Morass on the Mac: the games list and a live board side by side in one window.
The new-game panel on Mac: tutorial, practice, two players, or play the computer.
Start a game: solo, practice, or across the table.
The ownership-over-time chart on Mac, the lead tightening move by move.
Ownership over time, the lead tightening.

No ads. No noise. Nothing taken.

Free, and it stays that way

No ads, no energy timers, no streak guilt. The only purchase is a tip jar.

It collects nothing

No tracking, no analytics, no account. See the privacy page →

Fine for everyone

Rated 4+, age-aware, and respectful of Screen Time. For parents →

Accessibility

Morass is an inherently visual, spatial game, so we put the work into the accessibility that suits it, and we're honest about the parts we didn't build.

Differentiate without color

Your pins and your opponent's are different shapes, not just different colors. So the board stays readable when color alone is hard to tell apart.

Larger text

Respects Dynamic Type: the interface scales with your system text size. (iPhone & iPad)

Dark interface

A full dark mode that follows your system appearance.

Sufficient contrast

Text and key interface elements meet contrast guidelines, light or dark.

Reduced motion

Honors Reduce Motion: the territory settles without the extra animation.

What we didn't build, and why

Morass is about reading terrain at a glance, and we couldn't make that work honestly through VoiceOver or Voice Control. So rather than ship something that only half-works, we left them out, and we'd rather say so plainly. If a change would make Morass work better for you, tell us.

The name

A morass is boundary ground, a bog or marsh, the place where solid land and open water stop being distinct. You can't point to the line where one becomes the other, because the line is a gradient — that's the whole game.

Free to play, and a coffee, if it earns one

Every mode, every feature, no ads, no subscription. The only thing you can buy is a small optional tip, a way to thank the one person who makes it. It unlocks nothing, and it's hidden for younger players.

A small coffee
$1
☕☕
A nice coffee
$3
☕☕☕
A whole pot
$5
Morass v1.1 is on the App Store now — free, for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.

Find the line.

Free on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.

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