Before playing this I had ZERO idea how to play Sudoku. The game has neat tools designed to ease you into Sudoku and also a lot of QoL Sudoku "improvements", like autofilling places with a single option, that make the gameplay more fast-paced and snappy. The autofill feels especially satisfying with the Iphone haptics. There are also tutorials available, seperate ones for each difficulty level, that gradually explain more mechanics to you.
Highly recommend this, especially for people that don't know how to play Sudoku and want to get in on the fun.
Highly recommend this, especially for people that don't know how to play Sudoku and want to get in on the fun.
One of the best puzzle games ever created.
"Is it good?" Yeah, it's Good. Great UI and (optional) assist features, with a ton of puzzles to solve.
The techniques that the game tries to teach you are very helpful, but it may take some trial and error to fully grasp some of them. The game's hint system will always show you a technique that can be applied to the puzzle's current state (assuming it's still a valid board), along with an annotated description, but this same system is also used for the game's tutorials. As the techniques become more difficult, you may need to go through a decent amount of examples until you can recognize whatever pattern they're trying to show you in a real puzzle. Some of the hardest techniques feel so esoteric that even just solving their tutorial puzzles can be a challenge, let alone making use of them in an actual puzzle.
Also, as of writing this, it seems like some of the achievements might be bugged. I'll just say, if you're a completionist, don't stress too much about doing the 365-day daily puzzle streaks. I finally got them done after several broken streaks, only for the achievements to fail to pop. That said, if the game wasn't this Good, I probably wouldn't have kept at it for so long.
The techniques that the game tries to teach you are very helpful, but it may take some trial and error to fully grasp some of them. The game's hint system will always show you a technique that can be applied to the puzzle's current state (assuming it's still a valid board), along with an annotated description, but this same system is also used for the game's tutorials. As the techniques become more difficult, you may need to go through a decent amount of examples until you can recognize whatever pattern they're trying to show you in a real puzzle. Some of the hardest techniques feel so esoteric that even just solving their tutorial puzzles can be a challenge, let alone making use of them in an actual puzzle.
Also, as of writing this, it seems like some of the achievements might be bugged. I'll just say, if you're a completionist, don't stress too much about doing the 365-day daily puzzle streaks. I finally got them done after several broken streaks, only for the achievements to fail to pop. That said, if the game wasn't this Good, I probably wouldn't have kept at it for so long.
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I’ve been playing this for a couple years, and there is no other sudoku for me. The only game that actually enables you to improve at sudoku. Lovely UI.