▻Sudoku is a puzzle game for casual gamers, offering 36,000 variations with social leaderboards on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Active
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Games
Sentiment
4.8
720k reviews
Nemesis
Sudoku.com - Number Games
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app for daily mental exercise and competitive high-score chasing, where the point system and streaks provide a structured, repeatable habit.
For Casual puzzle gamers seeking a high-volume, competitive Sudoku experience with social ranking features.
What does it look like?
Key features
Time-decaying score multiplier
Game Center streak tracking
36,000 unique puzzles
How much does it cost?
Ad-supported model using static banners and mid-game video to monetize high-volume sessions.
Velocity
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The app ships approximately 0.3 releases per week, placing it in the active tier. Development appears to alternate between content-driven updates and recurring performance maintenance. The publisher utilizes opaque release notes for the most recent updates, suggesting a focus on stability or server-side adjustments rather than visible feature changes. The development trend is stable, with a clear history of both feature-rich releases and routine technical improvements.
Who built it?
PeopleFun CG
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What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews frustrated. Users appreciate long-term engagement with the core puzzle mechanics keeps veteran players returning for years, but report aggressive mid-game video advertisements interrupt the flow and concentration required for complex puzzle solving.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Long-term engagement with the core puzzle mechanics keeps veteran players returning for years
- Aggressive mid-game video advertisements interrupt the flow and concentration required for complex puzzle solving
100 of 155 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for ▻Sudoku
How's the Games market?
The app maintains a 4.77 rating across 720k+ total ratings, but the recent update cadence has triggered performance regressions that threaten its long-term retention lead.
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By Easybrain Ltd
Dominates the category with massive scale and high-frequency release cycles that set the standard for modern mobile Sudoku.
- Maintains a massive, centralized ecosystem of puzzle games that cross-promote to drive user acquisition.
- Aggressive six-release cadence in the last six months ensures constant feature iteration and bug squashing.
- Standardizes the 'Number Games' branding, creating a category-defining identity that is difficult to displace.
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Key takeaways for ▻Sudoku
Where is it heading?
The casual puzzle market is consolidating around high-stability, ad-light experiences, leaving ▻Sudoku exposed to churn. Unless the team pivots to a hybrid monetization model, the current ad-frequency strategy will continue to erode the veteran user base.
- Aggressive mid-game ads interrupt active play, causing veteran users to churn and leave negative reviews.
- Forced internet connectivity regressions prevent offline play, alienating the core travel-based user segment.
The SWOT
- 36,000-puzzle library functions as a content-volume barrier
- Game Center integration drives social network effects
- Decade-long user history sustains organic install velocity
- Paid ad-free tier to recover veteran users
- Offline-mode restoration to capture travel-segment usage
Next best moves
Ship ad-free IAP because user requests for paid removal are high → recover veteran retention
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's decade-long history is a liability, not an asset…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Offline mode (available in Oakever Games but missing here)
Since the last report: The app has pivoted to aggressive mid-game video monetization, causing a decline in sentiment and increasing churn risk despite a stable 4.77 rating.
Bottom line
▻Sudoku holds its category lead through sticky social mechanics but bleeds veteran players to aggressive ad-interruption, so revenue growth hinges on launching an ad-free tier to stabilize the user base.
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