Ludo Fighters keeps the Ludo you grew up with, the board, the dice, the race home, and turns every piece into a cartoon soldier. Land on an enemy and it is not a quiet trip back to base any more. It is a gun fight.
2–6
squads
1–6
soldiers a squad
5
weapons
5
Lumi AI personalities
4
battlefields
39
voice lines
4
ways to play
The big change
Every piece is a cartoon soldier in its squad's colour, with a helmet, a vest and a rifle, and they walk and talk. Flip the switch to see the same capture played the classic way and the Ludo Fighters way.
Ludo Fighters
Your soldier halts one square short, both sides raise rifles and three shots ring out. The enemy is knocked out, vanishes in a puff of smoke and respawns at its base, then your soldier steps onto the square. About 1.3 seconds, and you can tap to skip.
Under the helmet
Each feature below is in the game today.
Land exactly on an enemy and your soldier stops one square short and opens fire. Each fight picks a weapon: pistol, rifle burst or shotgun, a sniper shot (more likely across a long gap), or a grenade lobbed on an arc. The enemy is knocked out and respawns at its base. Before you roll, target rings show which enemies are in reach. Tap the board to skip a fight.
Safe stars are shield bunkers. Fire at a soldier standing there and the shot ricochets off a blue dome.
Lumi AI fills any empty seat. Pick its personality: Rookie, Aggressor, Guardian, Strategist or Commander, who thinks a turn ahead.
Friends share one phone, up to six squads. The far side of the table gets its own dice, facing whoever sits there.
Jungle, Desert, Snowfield and Night Ops, each with sandbag bunkers, a headquarters flag and its own ambience. On Night Ops the home lanes glow.
Jungle
Desert
Snowfield
Night Ops
Play with two dice for two moves a turn. Roll doubles and you get a bonus turn on top.
Soldiers get knocked out with X eyes, fall over and vanish in a puff of smoke. No blood, no injuries, and they are back at base ready for the next round.
Recorded dice, footsteps for every map, a reload, gunfire and a ricochet. A battle march made in-house. And 39 recorded squad callouts like “Enemy spotted!” and “Man down!”, each with a speech bubble over the soldier who says it.
Your table, your rules
Every family plays Ludo a little differently. In a custom match each of these rules is a switch, so the game plays the way your table always has.
Solo against Lumi AI
Pick your squad
Play solo against Lumi AI as Yellow and the board turns 90 degrees so your base sits bottom-left, the way you would sit at a real table. Your soldiers march up and away from you, every match.
Settings
Turn the music down, keep the gunfire. Keep the music, mute the voices. Or switch on Reduce motion and the game skips the gun fights and calms the battlefield effects, so captures resolve instantly.
Music
The menu march, fight and victory stings and battlefield ambience, with its own volume.
Game sounds
Dice, footsteps, gunfire, with its own volume.
Squad voice
Callouts like “Enemy spotted!”, with its own volume.
Vibration
A buzz on rolls and hits.
Reduce motion
Skips gun fights and hops.
Straight talk
A friends list, power-up squares, a shareable killcam, more battlefields, a 2v2 team mode and ranked leagues are on the roadmap as plans, not promises with dates.
In the game · online squads
Players on different phones drop into one match. Quick battle seats 2, 4 or 6, and Lumi AI fills empty seats after about 15 seconds. Private rooms use a 6-letter code. You play as a guest with a callsign, talk with fixed callouts (no typed chat), and can report or block anyone.
Ludo Fighters is coming soon to Android and iPhone. Read up on the rules now and be first in when the squads deploy.