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Ludo Hero: ludo for 2 or 4 seats, against computer players or online
Ludo Hero is a browser version of ludo by MarketJS. Poki published it on 7 April 2020 and counts 806,519 votes on its page. It starts without an account, and its own counter showed 678 players online when the page was opened on 10 November 2026.
- Players2 or 4 seats
- One game15–30 est.
- Age rule16+ (host)
The button opens the game's page on poki.com, which loaded on 10 November 2026. One roll of the die was made against a computer player; the online mode was not opened and no game was played to the end.
- Maker and host
- MarketJS, as credited by Poki; hosted on Poki
- Online since
- 7 April 2020 on Poki; game files last updated on 14 April 2022
- Players at a table
- 2 or 4 seats, filled by computer players in “vs Bot” or by people in “Online Mode”
- One game takes
- No published figure; 15 to 30 minutes (est.)
- Live or by turns
- Live, one roll at a time. A timer on a move was not verified
- Account
- None needed. The first screen has a name field and a portrait picker
- Money and adverts
- Nothing for sale on the screens opened. 2 advert slots on the Poki page; no video advert before the game
- Paid random items
- None found
- Age rule
- Poki's rules, as served outside the UK, say 16 and older. No app-store rating found
- Chat
- Not verified: Online Mode was not started. Poki says chat in its games is a set of preset messages
- On a phone
- Poki lists it for mobile browsers, in portrait; not tested
- Players online
- 678 on the game's own counter when the page was opened
- Rating on Poki
- 4.22 out of 5 from 806,519 votes: 649,006 likes and 157,513 dislikes. Poki names no period
- Poki categories
- Board, Strategy, Multiplayer, Classic and 1v1
How a game of Ludo Hero starts
The first screen shows a cartoon portrait with arrows to change it, an empty field marked “name”, a settings button and a red play button. A line in the corner counted 678 players online. Over the next minutes it moved between 674 and 680.
Play leads to two modes, “vs Bot” and “Online Mode”, and each asks for 2 players or 4. For this guide “vs Bot” with 2 players was opened. The board appeared with 4 yellow tokens on our side and 4 red ones opposite, and the two seats carried the names “Eric” and “John”.
One click rolled the die and a yellow token left its yard for the track. The test ended there: the race was not played on and “Online Mode” was not started.
The rules are those of the cardboard game. Poki's description puts them in one line: “throw the dice to get all your pawns inside your box after making a round across the board”.
No shop was seen; Poki pays for itself with adverts
The screens opened had no shop, no coins and no prices. The pause menu held two sound sliders, a back button and a home button. Poki lists the price of the game as 0 and links no app-store edition.
Poki's FAQ says “Ads are what allows Poki to offer a free gaming experience” and that the site has no paid or ad-free version. The Ludo Hero page had 2 slots marked Advertisement, both empty during the check, and no video played before the game.
The check lasted under 2 minutes and ran from Thailand. Adverts that come later in a session, and the adverts served to a British visitor, were not seen.
Online Mode seats you with whoever is there
“vs Bot” needs nobody else. “Online Mode” is the other half of the game and was not opened for this guide. What other players see of you, whether the name field takes any text and whether the mode has a chat are all not verified.
A way to invite one particular friend was not seen on the screens opened. Two people who want to play each other have a surer route on this list: Mancala Classic or Four in a Row at one screen.
No app-store edition is linked from the Poki page, so no PEGI or App Store rating was found. Poki's own rules, in the version served to a connection in Thailand, describe the site as meant for visitors “of 16 years and older”. The same page says the age can depend on the visitor's location, and the UK wording was not read.
On chat, Poki's FAQ gives one answer for the whole site.
“Most Poki games don't have chat features. Games that do, like Vortella's Dress Up and Steal and Run, use our linked Poki Safe Chat functionality. This lets players talk using a set of predefined messages.”
Poki, FAQ, answer to “Do Poki games have chat?”, read on 10 November 2026
The dates, the counter and what was not tested
Poki dates the last update of Ludo Hero's files to 14 April 2022. The game still loaded and rolled on 10 November 2026.
The count of players online is the game's own figure, and Lobby Meadow cannot audit it.
Poki's FAQ says that without a Poki account “your game progress is saved in your browser cookies”. Whether Ludo Hero keeps anything between visits was not tested.
Sound, the settings screen and phone play were not tested. Poki lists the game for mobile browsers in portrait orientation.