Independent studio · Dêrik, Rojava
Games that speak Kurdish.
Ardil Games is a small independent studio in Dêrik, Rojava. We make handcrafted games where the Kurdish language is not a translation, but the whole point.
Our first game
Kurdish Letters
Peyvên Kurdî
A cozy word game built around Kurmanji. Name pictures, hunt for words in a grid, finish proverbs, and travel through fifteen illustrated Kurdish landscapes, from spring meadows to the snow of Mount Ararat. No account, no connection needed.
- Levels
- 150
- Worlds
- 15
- Language
- Kurmanji
- Plays offline
- Yes
- Ads
- Optional, hints only
- Price
- Free
A studio with one job: make it feel like home.
We are a small team working from Dêrik, in northeast Syria, building games that people of every age can pick up in a minute and keep for years.
Kurdish is rarely the language of a game's menus, let alone its jokes and proverbs. We would like that to change one small game at a time.
Kurdish first
Words, voices and sayings are written for Kurdish speakers, not adapted from another language afterwards.
Respectful of your time
Nothing is locked behind a wait or a payment. Ads are always optional and only ever the way to earn an extra hint.
Built to last
Games run offline on modest phones, so a child in a village and a student abroad get the same experience.
Made by hand
Every world, sound and level is crafted or checked by a person, with real recordings of Kurdish speakers.
Say hello.
Questions, press, translations, or a game idea you would love to see in Kurdish. We read everything.
Dêrik, Rojava