{"id":1705807,"date":"2026-10-01T00:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/JFd3mJvHcefB3KsEvotJJ9"},"modified":"2026-10-01T00:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:16:35","slug":"til-what-may-or-may-not-be-the-oldest-board-game-in-recorded-history-is-also-perhaps-inevitably-now-a-roguelike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/til-what-may-or-may-not-be-the-oldest-board-game-in-recorded-history-is-also-perhaps-inevitably-now-a-roguelike\/","title":{"rendered":"TIL what may or may not be the oldest board game in recorded history is also, perhaps inevitably, now a roguelike"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Are you aware of <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4121430\/OhWare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oh!Ware<\/a>? I&#8217;m guessing not. The deckbuilder has been on Steam for about a week as of this writing, with a humble 23 reviews to its name so far. It caught my eye though, because the fundamental mechanic underneath the very 2026 trappings of a roguelike structure and marbles standing in for cards is mancala\u2014a slightly older board game you probably played at some point in your childhood.<\/p>\n<p>And by &#8220;slightly older,&#8221; I mean somewhere between 1,500 and 7,000 years older.<\/p>\n<p>I was probably predisposed to love mancala as a kid: My dad was a big backgammon guy, and mancala is a lot like backgammon, but played with marbles or similar shiny colored glass pieces. (Kids still like shiny colored glass baubles in the TikTok era, right? I&#8217;m very out of touch.) What I didn&#8217;t know about mancala until today is that it <em>may<\/em> be the oldest board game in recorded history, but precisely when and where it was invented is still undetermined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some historians believe that mancala is the oldest game in the world based on the archaeological evidence found in Jordan that dates around 6000 BC,&#8221; summarizes Wikipedia. But other, more concrete evidence of the game, as dug up by archaeologists, is thousands of years newer\u2014around 500-600 AD. Mancala isn&#8217;t definitively the oldest board game, then, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodgames.com.au\/blogs\/articles\/the-oldest-board-games-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">ancient competition<\/a> from the likes of senet and mehen, but it&#8217;s an OG regardless.<\/p>\n<p>And now also a roguelike, though &#8220;deckbuilder&#8221; seems a bit off since the game is played with marbles. Does that make it a bagbuilder?<\/p>\n<figure role=\"gallery\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/til-what-may-or-may-not-be-the-oldest-board-game-in-recorded-history-is-also-perhaps-inevitably-now-a-roguelike.jpg\" alt=\"Mancala-based roguelike Oh!Ware\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Chris Perry<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/til-what-may-or-may-not-be-the-oldest-board-game-in-recorded-history-is-also-perhaps-inevitably-now-a-roguelike-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mancala-based roguelike Oh!Ware\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Chris Perry<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/til-what-may-or-may-not-be-the-oldest-board-game-in-recorded-history-is-also-perhaps-inevitably-now-a-roguelike-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mancala-based roguelike Oh!Ware\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Chris Perry<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/til-what-may-or-may-not-be-the-oldest-board-game-in-recorded-history-is-also-perhaps-inevitably-now-a-roguelike-3.jpg\" alt=\"Mancala-based roguelike Oh!Ware\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Chris Perry<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/til-what-may-or-may-not-be-the-oldest-board-game-in-recorded-history-is-also-perhaps-inevitably-now-a-roguelike-4.jpg\" alt=\"Mancala-based roguelike Oh!Ware\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Chris Perry<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On booting up Oh!Ware&#8217;s demo and skipping past the tutorial like I was hot shit, I realized I have not played mancala in at least 25 years and had no idea what I was doing. But I clicked a bunch to move some marbles around, collected mana(?) and killed a spider, who I really don&#8217;t think had any business playing a board game that requires opposable thumbs. Then I was offered the archetypical pick three, but with amusing choices including &#8220;blessing marble&#8221; and &#8220;aggro marble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I need to go study up on mancala now, but if anyone plays Oh!Ware, please let me know if I should aim for an aggro meta or a blessing meta. I really don&#8217;t want to lose my marbles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"9ed57720-bd2a-11f1-b9ab-f57efd31da15\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/til-what-may-or-may-not-be-the-oldest-board-game-in-recorded-history-is-also-perhaps-inevitably-now-a-roguelike-5.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"9ed57720-bd2a-11f1-b9ab-f57efd31da15\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/roguelike\/til-what-may-or-may-not-be-the-oldest-board-game-in-recorded-history-is-also-perhaps-inevitably-now-a-roguelike\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you aware of Oh!Ware? I&#8217;m guessing not. The deckbuilder has been on Steam for about a week as of this writing, with a humble 23 reviews to its name so far. It caught my eye though, because the fundamental mechanic underneath the very 2026 trappings of a roguelike structure and marbles standing in for cards is mancala\u2014a slightly older board game you probably played at some point in your childhood. And by &#8220;slightly older,&#8221; I mean somewhere between 1,500 and 7,000 years older. I was probably predisposed to love mancala as a kid: My dad was a big backgammon guy, and mancala is a lot like backgammon, but played with marbles or similar shiny colored glass pieces. (Kids still like shiny colored glass baubles&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/til-what-may-or-may-not-be-the-oldest-board-game-in-recorded-history-is-also-perhaps-inevitably-now-a-roguelike\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,1518],"class_list":["post-1705807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-roguelike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TIL what may or may not be the oldest board game in recorded history is also, perhaps inevitably, now a roguelike | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are you aware of Oh!Ware? 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