Mancalero

Mancalero is a roguelike based on Mancala. Choose one of your pits, pick up its marbles and sow them one by one into the following pits. Landing the last marble in your storehouse earns another turn; landing it in an empty pit on your side captures the pit opposite it. You can win a match by draining your opponent’s Score Target to zero or by having more marbles in your Mancala storehouse when one side of the board runs out.

Marble effects and combos

Special marbles trigger effects when sown. Lightning chains between marbles, Fire burns enemy marbles, Multiply doubles a pit, Glass rapidly scales points before shattering, Thief steals, Boomerang returns, and Black Hole swallows the pits beside it. Plan moves to trigger effects together, chain extra turns and build score multipliers; combinations can produce scores in the millions. The game includes more than 15 marble types, and deeper tables bring stranger additions to your collection.

Runs and tables

A run climbs through 8 tables, each containing 2 matches and a boss encounter. Every match has a Score Target that decreases as you score; reduce it to zero to win. Each table’s boss changes how the game plays, rather than simply making the fight harder, and a victory may still come with a curse. Losing a match ends the run, but unlocks persist between runs, including new pouch types. Each pouch changes your starting marbles and upgrades, and some must be unlocked.

The Bazaar and upgrades

Between matches, spend your winnings in The Bazaar on marbles and Blessings that bend the rules. You can also buy Embroidery Patches, which modify prices, slots and scoring. The game has more than 15 Blessings, as well as hidden Set Bonuses that create synergies between Blessings and marbles.

Modes and records

Clear Table 8 to unlock Endless Mode, where you face versions of previous enemies and bosses with progressively increasing difficulty. The game also saves your score history locally and includes a Compendium for tracking discoveries and learning how each marble type works.