Not Evil Sudoku

Based on the description I thought “oh cool free sudoku that’s ad free, neat!” which this still was. I didn’t expect it to only be one game a day. I feel like the game or the page should have warned me in some way. I also would wish you could maybe play one game of each difficulty per day, because I played one easy game, gotten into a sudoku mood and then got totally sudoku blocked when I wanted to play on hard. Otherwise pretty solid

We will not give you ads, but will give you kinda clanky UI and will shoot you in the leg so you won’t be able to play multiple games in a row. Yeah, not evil at all.

Concept of no ads is cool and yes ads are evil, but honestly so is adding a subscription for sudoku. I think I’ll stick an app with ads

Love playing 1 suduko a day. Solved today’s hard in 15 mins.

This app claims to be “Not evil,” but only allows you to play 1 game a day unless you pay five dollars for unlimited. There’re also other features locked behind a paywall such as charts. Other apps might not have charts, and might have lots of ads; but they still let you play as much as you want. The amount to remove those ads is also as much as this app’s paywall is. This app tries to make itself out to be not evil while falling prey to the same traps that other apps make. If you’re going to paywall your app, just add ads so people can play as much as they want. Although it’d be basically a copy of other apps in that way.

Somehow, the Devs of this app didn’t stop to think about the fact that maybe, just maybe, the only thing more annoying than ads, is paywalling the app. You can play one, Just one, game every three hours. Which in itself is pretty ridiculous. Not only that, it locks the entirety of the rest of the app behind a subscription paywall. Just because an ad is for your own company, doesn’t make it “ad free.” This app is a mediocre sudoku app with a steep price that doesn’t match the benefit. But hey, at least there’s not “technically” ads.

Nothing wrong with the app its actually quite fun it just has nothing going for it because its literally just sudoku

I really love this app - I’ve been using the free version for a few months now. The one puzzle per day didn’t bother me so much as I’m not an avid sudoku player, I only do one puzzle before bed usually. No ads is STELLAR (wish/hope more phone games are like this). I also really appreciate the different levels of difficulty and various customizable features like turning on/off the number highlights. I never felt particularly good at sudoku when I was young (I hadn’t picked up sudoku in a decade!!) but the way this app is structured has helped me learn new strategies & increase the challenge based on what settings I use. Less important but this app works in dark mode settings which just adds to my contentment. I just paid the one time $5 for the upgraded version (to support the developer) and am curious to try the features that unlocks too.

As advertised

… and you can only play one sudoku a day. Unless you pay 5 dollars. The controls on this are really clunky. You tap a square and then input your number. Most other sudoku apps have a system where you tap a number then the squares you want to fill- it’s much, much easier that way. It’s really hard to keep track of what square you have selected. The interface in general is really clunky. If you want to play a Hard sudoku you have to go into settings and switch to “Hard” … and wait for the next day. Notes/pencil marks are really clunky too. You can only have up to 4 pencil marks per square, and if you have more than 4 in a square then it simply hides the extra numbers. It becomes a real hassle if you didn’t realize that. Putting down numbers does not remove pencil marks either. So you have to go through, tap on each individual square, double check you’re on Notes mode, and then remove pencil marks. Could not control any worse than that. It was really insulting to find out that you could only play one a day. It was even more insulting when it asked me to pay 5 dollars to get the worst controlling sudoku app I’ve ever used. If this is what being “not evil” gets you then consider me a villain.