About Jungle Arena

What it is

Jungle Arena is a web platform to play the Jungle Game (斗兽棋, Dou Shou Qi) online, for free, with friends or against a bot. It's a thousand-year-old Chinese strategy game, simpler than chess, faster, smarter. 8 animals, 1 river, 2 dens, and one rule you never forget: the rat captures the elephant.

Why we did it

There's chess.com for chess, lichess for free spirits, shogi-club for shogi… and then there's Dou Shou Qi: a cultural treasure, played by millions across Asia, yet no modern platform serves it. We're filling that gap, with love, as an indie team, and with the conviction that this game deserves to be known beyond its home community.

Our commitments

• The core game stays free forever.
• No ads in the game. None. Ever.
• No pay-to-win: Premium is cosmetic + quality of life.
• No aggressive tracking. No loot boxes. No FOMO progression.
• You can delete your account in 1 click from your profile.
• The game engine is tested and open core (potentially OSS soon).

The team

Jungle Arena is an indie project, a small team, run without investors. We'd rather bootstrap and stay free than raise funds and have to turn this game into a click machine.

If you want to support us, the best way is to play, tell a friend, or (once it's open) take out a subscription to Premium.

Contact us

For any question, suggestion, bug, or just to say hi: info@jungle-arena.com.

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