Morass
Robert Hoekstra Games iPhoneiPadiPod touchMacApple Watch
Morass is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Robert Hoekstra. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated July 3, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 17 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Jul 3
- 2026 · v1.1
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About Morass
Morass is a quiet strategy game about the hardest line to draw: the edge of what you hold. You place pins on a landscape of hills, valleys, and water. After every move, Morass reads the terrain and redraws the borders — your ground against theirs — with the boundary settling like water finding its level. Hold the high ground and your influence reaches further. Cluster your pins and you harden a stronghold. Overreach, and the marsh takes back what you couldn't keep. It learns in a single round and stays with you for a hundred. No timers, no noise — just you, the board, and the slow tightening of a line. PLAY YOUR WAY • Solo against an adaptive opponent that scales to your skill — and stays honestly beatable at the very top • Practice mode with undo and no rating, to try a line without consequence • Two players, pass-and-play on one device BUILT TO BE CALM • A spare, tactile board in warm light or quiet dark • The same game across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch • Free — no ads, and no tracking of any kind. The only purchase is a tip jar, if it's earned one. ABOUT THE NAME A morass is boundary ground: the place where solid land and open water stop being distinct, where the edge is the exact thing that's hard to locate. That's the whole game: finding the line in terrain that resists having one. Made by one person. If a quiet minute or two of it lands, that means a lot.
What’s new
Version 1.1 · Updated July 3, 2026
Morass comes to Mac. The same board and the same quiet game, now on a larger screen — one purchase across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Also here: • A faster, smoother board — the territory settles more quickly after each move, especially on Mac and iPad. • A stronger opponent, still tuned to stay beatable. • Small fixes throughout.
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App privacy
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morass | – | Free | July 3, 2026 | |
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