I’ve released Gomoku Forge 1.8.0, a free Gomoku and Renju app for Windows and browser. It brings together games against a local AI, move analysis and practice based on positions from your own games.
After a game, you can compare your moves with the engine’s recommendations and main continuations. Finish the game analysis, then use From Your Games to scan for confirmed learning moments. Open a moment, try a move, check the result and return to the original game for context. Saved learning records let you revisit those positions later.
There are also exercises for attack, defense, threat recognition and rules. Choose Freestyle or Renju, play Black or White, and switch between Classic and Studio boards and stones. The interface is Light only and supports English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
The browser edition offers Easy and Normal. Windows has five difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, Hard, Expert and Master. These are difficulty labels, not playing ranks. Both editions are free, with optional donations on itch.io.
The video shows the released Windows app. Its analysis and learning sections use an illustrative sample game, with analysis calculated by the running engine. The practice records shown are demonstrations, not user results. Cover artwork includes AI-created imagery.
Play in your browser or download Windows here:
https://paladinmark.itch.io/gomoku-forge
