Sudoku Extreme: Classic Number

Since picking this version up back in July of this year I’ve logged almost 200 games in it. There’s a ton of options, and my favorite by far (well 2 now as of yesterday’s update) is that I can have all of the possible notes pre-filled!! And as of yesterday I can export my game stats so I can check them out in a spreadsheet and make my own graphs. Perfect if you’re a DataIsBeautiful redditor 🤘 If your old favorite sudoku app is boring you or if you’re new to the market and looking for a solid sudoku app, give Sudoku Extreme a shot 🤙 —mauirixxx Edit: as of December 2024 I’ve logged over 1,500+ games (rounds?) in this app, it’s nearly the only game I play on my phone these days 😎

This is the best and cleanest sudoku I’ve tried. Well worth the one-time price. A few suggestions: 1. When I want to de-select all of the highlighted cells to see an un-highlighted board, I’ll click below the number row in the empty area of my pro max screen. However, the touch fields for each number extend so far below the actual number, that I end up accidentally hitting a number and filling in a highlighted cell - sometimes without realizing it - and it ends up messing up my board. 2. I like to play in dark mode. The border around the individual cells are very hard to see because they are almost the same color (or almost as dark) as the cell background color. Please lighten up the individual cell border color a bit. Otherwise when you have a lot of notes in adjacent cells, they all seem to just blend into each other and are hard to distinguish. 3. When you tap a cell that has notes (e.g. 1,4,7), the numbers 1, 4 and 7 at the bottom should be highlighted. Otherwise, good job.

This is probably the most feature-packed sudoku I’ve found on iOS with tons of quality-of-life settings like auto-note at the start and highlighting cells with a chosen number/note. Long-press to auto-fill is pretty good, and I just found long-press to select number for single-touch-auto-fills. The nitpicks I have are technological in nature though. Long-press (and probably even regular press) should allow haptic feedback, probably as a toggle; if I’m playing for speed then I can’t see if a cell is filled from long-pressing because my finger covers the entire cell so vibrating the phone would let me know the long-press activated. I also have an issue with animation blocking the ability to touch immediately. I’ve found one legit bug though. With animation on, if you fill a cell (definitely with long-press, almost certainly with the normal way) and you cancel the animation super early (e.g. you accidentally slide your finger to the next cell too quickly from a long-press) the triggers of follow-up actions like erasing the number from the necessary notes don’t fire. I currently can’t think of any other extras I’d like to have in a sudoku game, this one seems to have them all covered!