Sudoku Master: Number Puzzle

The game itself is great. There’s a daily challenge plus a tournament style competition. There’s a handy note feature and even hints. The Bad: The amount of ads and the length of them are crazy. Before and after each game and sometimes two or three minutes long. I have also been experiencing frequent freezing lately. There is no way I’m paying $8 a month for ad free because that is ridiculous. I can’t even play a quick game when I have a few free minutes because of how long the ads are.

Sad to say, this app has way too many ads in the free version and they aren't all safe ads as other reviewers have mentioned. I enjoyed the game while I had a paid subscription because the various competitions and solving options made the app interesting to come back to day after day. However, as soon as that expired, the app felt impossible to use. The biggest drawback beyond the ads is there is no mechanism to get better at sodoku. The hints just fill in a number instead of letting you know what technique you should have used to get the answer. For that and the other reasons, I might as well just pay for apple arcade and play the much better sodoku app that is available there.

Some ads have a volume icon to mute sounds but the 'screw puzzle' ads have a stupid high pitched noise that hurts my head! You should consider 'neurodivergent' players that have triggers such as certain noises and who need to be able to mute sounds completely when they pop up. That ad is not able to be clicked through right away and I just can NOT listen to that sound! I have to close the app to avoid it each time and it seems to be playing more often than before. I like the game but this problem might be what chases me away. I understand that ads pay the bills, but the sound effects are not vital to ads and could be mutable. When an ad has such problems, it defeats the purpose of being shown, as I can't even watch it. I've got sound turned off in the game settings but I can not silence my device entirely because I need to hear incoming messages for my on call job. PLEASE make it so things can be FULLY muted - more than ten minutes after playing and I still have that noise ringing in my head...🤨