Sudoky

Genre: Sudoku Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Sudoky is a Sudoku Puzzle game that is that is fairly straightforward – there are 100 easy difficulty puzzles, 100 medium difficulty puzzles, 100 hard difficulty puzzles, or players can have the game randomly generate a puzzle in any of those difficulties.

The presentation here is about as simple and straightforward as the features – it’s plain-looking, with big bold numbers on a white field on a blue background (with a half-dozen alternate color schemes available as well). Blue smaller numbers note where you’ve marked a cel but not finalized a choice, orange for when you’ve plugged in a choice, and red for when that choice conflicts with another cel. This is accompanied by a simple, plunky tune on strings that plays in the background.

The controls here are decent, if a little awkward, since players are required to hold down the R button to put in just about any selection. If it wasn’t for this annoyance, I’d say the controls here would be ideal. Also nearly ideal is the level of help the game gives you – it doesn’t tell you when you’ve entered something wrong, but points out when you have a conflict (an option you can turn off if you like). You also have an optional setting that allows you to limit markings only to choices that don’t already conflict with other markings. This is almost what I’d want, except it would be preferable to have an option to check the puzzle to see if any wrong entries have been made.

I appreciate that this game gets the fundamentals of sudoku correct in ways that some other games fail to, and I’m ecstatic that this game offers a potentially limitless supply of sudoku puzzles to play. Unfortunately, it is so bare-bones that it’s missing some key features common to most other games in the genre. There’s no option to play a different song, there’s no touchscreen support, no multiplayer options, and the game doesn’t even keep track of your time on puzzles – it only tracks which puzzles you’ve completed, and how many random puzzles you completed.

Sudoky gets a lot of things right when it comes to Sudoku Puzzle game mechanics, but it is so bare-bones that it’s hard to recommend it over other more feature-packed games, even though Sudoky provides a limitless number of potential puzzles to play. Sudoku fans will likely want to add this to their collection for the infinite puzzles it provides, but they’ll likely only want to play it after they’ve exhausted all of the puzzles from their other sudoku games.

tl;dr – Sudoky is a Sudoku Puzzle game with 300 built-in puzzles, as well as the ability to generate random puzzles in three difficulty levels. The basic mechanics here are mostly pretty good, and it’s hard to complain about the potentially infinite amount of content, but Sudoky is also bare-bones and feature-poor, lacking basic features like touchscreen support and time records. Still, for fans of sudoku puzzles, this is definitely a game you’ll want to play after you’ve finished the other more feature-rich sudoku games in your collection.

Grade: C+

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