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Othello

Othello

The classic abstract strategy game comes to Steam! Othello is an ageless game that takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. Place tiles surrounding your opponents tiles to flip them to your color. Get to the end with more tiles of your color and you are the winner!

Released Mar 19, 2015 Developer BlueLine Games Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux StrategyCasualIndieBoard Game
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-13)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

71.0%positive100 reviews
Recommended · 78 found this helpful

“Game runs fine so far with no problems but no one is online to play against. + Clean and fast inteface. + A.I. is great with many difficulty settings to suit your skill level. + Local Multi-player + Steam Achievements, Cards..etc. Side-Note: this is Othello not Reversi and here…”

— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played
Recommended · 35 found this helpful

“I originally thought this was Othello. Cleared up my a fellow gamer here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversi Despite the occasional crash - it is the game that I enjoyed playing as a kid. I am enjoying it now - despite the *complete* lack of people available to play…”

— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played
Not recommended · 19 found this helpful

“First of all, these reveiwers saying this is not "Reversi" but actually "Othello" I have no idea what they are talking about. I've been playing Reversi/Othello for a long time, as well as have been researching board and card games, and I have never encountered a version that…”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

20achievements
3.2%median completion
1.9%rarest: Tough Love
30.8% of players 19.6% of players 14.6% of players 12.0% of players 8.4% of players 8.3% of players 6.6% of players 5.6% of players 4.3% of players 4.1% of players 3.2% of players 3.2% of players 2.9% of players 2.8% of players 2.4% of players 2.2% of players 2.2% of players 2.1% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 30.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
30.8%Flip-Six — Flip six tiles in one move.
19.6%Off to a good start — Beat the AI on "Beginner"
14.6%Taking it easy — Beat the AI on "Easy"
Rarest badges of honor
1.9%Tough Love — Win 15 games in a row, online
2.0%Seriously? — Win 10 games in a row, online
2.1%Mess with the Best — Beat a player who has the 'Insane' achievement

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

May 09, 2017
Lost Cities Kickstarter Launched!

Hey there, Othello Fans! We at BlueLine Game Studios are happy to announce that we have just launched a Kickstarter for our newest game: Lost Cities! It uses the same great engine that we used for Oth

Nov 13, 2016
Updates, Translations, Sales! :D

We've just released a bunch of updates & new languages for Othello: Added Spanish translation (thanks dani_as0!) Added Polish translation (thanks Ti_Ichigo from our LiveCoding.tv channel!) Old "Steam

Aug 05, 2016
Othello is released!!

FINALLY!! :D More than two years after we started trying to get this license, today we are finally launching Othello to the world on Steam! We can't thank you all enough, for all of the support! The c

Dec 15, 2015
Bugfix release - Win/Mac/Linux

Fixed some really bad edge-cases that were caused by playing an online async game, then leaving it, then finishing a local game in the same run of the program. Please make sure you have the latest ver

Nov 20, 2015
Bunch of improvements + a SALE!

Since our last release, we've made a lot of changes & are having a short sale to celebrate! Here are some of the changes: Rewrote our entire font rendering system to use a more scalable system. On use

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresCasual, Indie, Strategy
Player tagsStrategy · Casual · Indie · Board Game (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Shared/Split Screen · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish - Spain, Polish
ControllerFull support
Achievements20
Official sitehttp://bluelinegamestudios.com/reversi-game/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP or better Processor: 1 gHz Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 2.1+ w/ GL_ARB_framebuffer_object Storage: 300 MB available space