Devir announces digital Red Cathedral for mobile and PC in Fall 2026
Devir is bringing The Red Cathedral to Android, iOS and Steam with cross-play, 1-4 player support and a Fall 2026 window, aiming squarely at strategy fans.
Devir has put The Red Cathedral on the mobile roadmap for Fall 2026, and the pitch is aimed straight at players who want real strategy on a phone rather than a stripped-down board-game souvenir. The digital edition is planned for Android, iOS and PC through Steam, with cross-play support for 1 to 4 players, which gives it a much broader social reach than a typical solo-only puzzle port.
That matters because The Red Cathedral is built around deliberate planning. In Devir’s own description of the tabletop game, players choose among three core actions: assign a section of the cathedral, send resources to build it, or go to the board to gather more resources. The structure leans on a rondel system, plus guild and professional favors, so the appeal is not speed but sequencing, timing and resource pressure. The digital version is also expected to support solo play and three AI difficulty levels, a combination that should suit players who like to grind out moves on a commute or test routes against the machine before taking them online.
The board game itself launched in 2020 and already has a substantial audience behind it, with Devir saying it sold more than 100,000 physical units. The design comes from Sheila Santos and Israel Cendrero, the duo known as Llama Dice, with artwork by Pedro Soto and Chema Román. Set in Moscow under Tsar Ivan the Terrible, the game tasks players with helping build St. Basil’s Cathedral while managing materials, clergy and city guilds to pull ahead of rivals. That strong identity gives the digital version something many app-store adaptations lack: a recognizable hobby-game backbone and a setting players can actually remember.
Devir’s broader push around the property also helps the digital announcement feel like more than a one-off experiment. The publisher has already lined up The Red Cathedral: Contractors as the first expansion, adding new guild cards, a map of the Moscow environs, new resources and a black die without changing the base game’s play time. For mobile strategy players, that is the clearest signal here: this is being treated like a serious hobbyist title with enough depth to justify a second look, not just another board-game port checking a release window box.
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