Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 05:20 am
▻Sudoku – Board Game Review
▻Sudoku is a Board/Puzzle/Entertainment game from PeopleFun CG, LLC, first launched in 7th May 2010.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 643,329+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes ▻Sudoku Stand Out
▻Sudoku is Sudoku with Point System, Runs, and Online Leaderboards. Discover the next evolution of Sudoku with amazing graphics, animations, and ease of use. This is a Sudoku like one you have never experienced before ;)
…Thousands of puzzles, all free. Top class puzzles with selectable level of difficulty :)
To the classic Sudoku, we added:
=> A smart point system, wherein your score is based on 1) the value of each number multiplied (at the time of its match) by a multiplier that decreases in time and 2) the value of each block, row, column multiplied (at the time of its completion) by the decreasing multiplier
=> Thanks to Game Center, you can now rank and compare Sudoku scores and achievements against friends and strangers
=> ▻Sudoku also counts the runs, that is, each uninterrupted sequence of games won, and adds them to the online leaderboards
In ▻Sudoku, you win a game when you solve a puzzle with 3 errors or less (we used this threshold to give a bit of slack for mis-tapping :) Also, you have a number of hints to help you play (more at the easy, less at the hard level). To fit any taste, you can choose between a lush tile look or a more classic board look :)
What our testers are saying:
• "The game is perfect! I am really loving ▻Sudoku. It is very addicting and fun, absolutely the best sudoku I have ever played."
• "Fabulous! You turned me into a ▻Sudoku fan hook, line and sinker :)"
• "Great app – love it! Well done! Love the start up sounds/music!"
• "The gameplay of ▻Sudoku is great, very smooth."
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This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, ▻Sudoku is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
-Performance Improvements
Download & Availability
▻Sudoku is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Best number game since 1999. At our age 81 , we play and forget our worries and am tension free.
We played this at least for one hour every day and we love it. Its a wonderful game. It keeps your mind sharp and alert.
Fun while engaging in challenging thinking.
We love Sudoku. It is our go-to game and is always great. We love being able to undo an error. This is a great game.
This is very challenging but not impossible. We like the feature where you can put numbers in before actually submitting them. We are new to Sudoka and we have hopes to figure out what is going on.
Couldnt start our day without Sudoku.
Great! Pure logic, makes you think.
Great game specially expert , having fun.
Ive played this game with this app for many years. Its still our favorite Sudoku app.
This game , we think, increases the development of logic in the brain.At 83, we believe it is important to challenge our brain daily.
Wow sometime you can just buz thru but most times you need to take a minute and look what what going on we all surrounding boxes we enjoy this one for sure.
Nice, easy quick play when Im standing online waiting for orders to be processed or even in a food store. Keeps our brain occupied, with logic and strategy.
We love this game. It relaxes us.
We love Sudoku!! Please keep it coming! As an old lady, we need something to keep our mind working and we love this!! ThNk you.
Great game without a lot of bs ads thrown in.
Update: 10+ years in and we still love this app. We used this app for years until we switched from an iPhone. We downloaded some other app but it wasn't the same. This one will always be our favorite and we're glad we finally have it back again.
We've been using this app for months and we still really enjoy using it. We've used other sudoku apps before and this is one of the best. We only wish it was ad-free.
Its teaching us a lot and its so much fun.
Lines between the 9 large squares need to be another color..maybe red.
The app is easy to use and the games fun and challenging. Recently they made a change where we cant play this offline. It was useful when we were traveling a bit for work to play this on the plane but it no longer works without internet connectivity.
We always play this game on our ipad, without wifi, as we dont have wifi at home. Updated the app around Christmas time and now we need am internet access to play. Please fix this ASAP. Been playing this game daily for years and now we cannot play it at home.
The game is fine, but the locked in sales pitches for "another game" is really frustrating. We have repeatedly switched to other vendors because of your ad pushing.
We used to really love this game, but now the ads pop up during the game! While Im trying to play it, and this really ruins, our concentration. It got so frustrating and annoying that we finally deleted the app that we used to love.
This is a great game. However, there are ads that now pop up in the middle of the game. It interrupts your train of thought and adds time to the game. You did this several months ago. We complained, and we assume others did too. You took them out. Now theyre back. TAKE THEM BACK OUT! Leave them between games where they belong. Do this and your rating goes back to 5 stars. If you dont get rid of them during the game, we will find another Sudoko game.
We loved this app for playing Sudoku. Their graphics are excellent, so its easy to see whats going on. But the past year or so, the game lags after every tap, which drains the fun. No other app we have (Sudoku or otherwise) has this problem. As much as we hate to, Im moving on to another Sudoku app.
The game is great but it keeps freezing on us. We had to restart our phone to get out of the program. Even closing other programs to have more memory didnt help. We have a good phone too.
Sudoku is fine but the adds are really annoying.
This is a fun game but a recent version now requires internet access to play. In airplane mode internet cannot be accessed which, in turn deactivates the entire game. We would like to see a version that provides absolutely no access to speakers including advertising to comply with airline published rules and not interfere with audio apps.
Would be nice to highlight multiple cells and be able to input a # with one click.
This is the second time in 1 yr Ive had to report frequent ads popping up DURING games not in between games. This issue has been fixed for awhile but looks like not any more.
Recently this app was updated to bug you every 10 seconds to enable WiFi or cellular data if you are without either. Was our favorite app for plane rides. Now we are uninstalling. Freakin ad revenue.
Would give it 5 stars but the ads we are forced to watch are too long.
Keeps freezing our iPhone and the ads are increasing annoying.
We used to love this app but suddenly you cant play it without internet.
This was our favorite app right up until today when it started popping up ads mid-game. Its very disruptive, and we wont play it anymore. We see its not just us and someone replies about woah is us, its just so hard not to have certain ads. BS, make a subscription option. Too bad though because this would easily be five stars without the invasive pop up ads.
The ads in this game are broken or something makes us play the ad game with no way to exit or skip.
It used to be pretty good. You had ads that would show after each game, which is fine. We played every day and saw 5-10 ads. However, you became greedy and we the new version the ads just pop up in a middle, a few times during a game without our permission. Uninstalling.
This was our favorite Sudoku app but the ads are relentless and sometimes we cant close them. There is no ad free version or we would pay for it. Going to start looking for a new game.
We have been using this game for years as we can play it off-line. Perfect for a plane, abroad when we dont want to use data or when Im camping and have no signal. Now they require a cell connection. Absolutely ridiculous. Why would they need any kind of connection to play this game other than to track you and feed you ads. Total BS. Its getting uninstalled.
This was a good app. Now you need an internet connection to play and the ads are very intrusive.
The app no longer works without an internet connection, thus rendering it completely useless in-flight. Which was the primary reason we had this to begin with.
Us and our mom Love this app with all its challenges, its a fun game we play every now and then, however the issue has started when the app bombarded us with adds. Plus the issue with the adds being that there is almost never any x button, even if we wait for over 10 minutes. This causes us to power off our device every time we get an add because of it having no x button and not being to exit out. We always have to stay offline which causes many personal and obvious issues. Other than the adds its an amazing game with all its features.
We have liked the graphics of this version but then the developers decided it needed an update and it got weird. The movements got jerked and they try and push more ads. The developers forgot the rule – dont fix what aint broke.
It used to be great but now theres too many ads. Im looking for a different game.
Ive played this Sudoku for years and chose it, like many others, due to it working offline as Im often off grid. This latest version broke that as now we get a no internet connection message with only a Retry button and no way to bypass that screen. When we were online we had no problem letting the banner ads roll as the devs need to make money but this new ads or else == Delete.
It no longer will work if you dont have an internet connection we used to enjoy playing while camping. WTFinexcusable that a game thats not internet based, requires the internet. Why so it can track us??!!! Ill look for another sud.
Unfortunately, this app, as so many, is simply a platform to deliver ads, that just so happens to play Sudoku as well.
Liked the game. But now cant play without internet connection. There used to be mini ads at the bottom of the layout, didnt interrupt play. Now ads pop up in the middle of play.
Our only complaint is that this game doesn't let you see your score at the end of the game. It wants you to go immediately to another game.
You'll get hooked and the time will fly by if you're not careful! It has 5 different levels. The easy really is easy and the expert level is really challenging. Im changing our review because with the new update, the game wont play without an internet connection. Because of that, we cannot play it anymore.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 8.1.8
- Size: 214.16 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: AR, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: PeopleFun CG, LLC
Last updated: 13th January 2026 | Genre: Board, Puzzle | Developer: PeopleFun CG, LLC