Simon Tatham's Puzzles Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience94.6% of reviews
Neutral2.0% of reviews
Negative experience3.4% of reviews

~ Based on 148 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Simon Tatham's Puzzles

Is Simon Tatham's Puzzles Safe?

Simon Tatham's Puzzles appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Simon Tatham's Puzzles is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 220 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

94.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 220 App Store ratings for Simon Tatham's Puzzles.

Is Simon Tatham's Puzzles Legit?

Simon Tatham's Puzzles appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Simon Tatham's Puzzles is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Needs update for iOS 27

Cannot open new games after iOS updated to 27. But excellent collection. Hope the author updates this fantastic app.

Perfect

Offline, many different logic puzzles

Best plus Privacy Respect equals Double Best

The games are great and the app offers something fundamental, for free, that not even many paid apps give: Privacy. No data collected, analysed, sold to third parties, no online needed. Besides, no ads whatsoever. I always come to this one because it respects me, and it offers fantastic gameplay, replayability and adjustable difficulty levels.
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Simply awesome

Wish I could support a developer with a decent donation, with this collection wouldn’t event mind to pay a subscription. Thanks for such an amazing opportunity to play these great games. For free.

Great Puzzles

This is the app that I was looking for

Absolutely Phenomenal

This is truly a service to all humankind. Thank you Simon Tatham. I’ve been a puzzler for many years and it was a delight to learn so many more. I use this constantly. Thank you!

Great but better on Android

Thank you for these games. I love playing them and learning new ways to work the problems. I just wish the interface was as good as the android version. There is no way to delete/clear a cell in some of the games(Keen), no way to favorite games, no zoom in “inertia”, etc.
I really do love the games and thank you.
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Hidden Gem

Quality puzzle games with no ads, charity work like this is awesome.

Lovely game

Free, fun and excellent very of games

The best puzzles

Simon Tatham’s puzzle games are so good because there’s many different games, easy ones like flood and some more challenging ones. There’s no ads, and it’s free. Easy to pick up at any time like when waiting for something and wanting to pass the time.

Ground breakingly simple

Awesome collection of puzzles, some well known others new to me. All challenging in their own way with options to increase the challenge. So simple, NO ADs! No fee.

One of the best puzzle collections

Simon Tatham's puzzle page has always stood out among its peers for its smooth implementations and sophisticated puzzle generation algorithms.There are few Minesweeper implementations out there that eliminate guesswork, for example.

This app is a good port with fairly intuitive controls, the only issue I've found is that it's not possible to copy the game IDs or puzzle strings, long tap does nothing. Something else to note is there haven't been updates in 5 years, so certain newer puzzles in the collection are not present here, but it doesn't detract from the quality of what we do have.
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Bien mais

Les jeux sont bien mais les explications sont lourde et parfois peu explicites, la prise en main peut être complexe, une petite vidéo ou un petit tutoriel aurais été appréciable

I love y’all

Thank you

Free, no ads, no tricks, amazing classic puzzles

I initially found these games on Linux through KDE Plasma's Discover and I regret nothing. It's an incredibly small software package while managing to fit in so many classic offline games. There are no ads or microtransactions and it's literally just the puzzles which is what I love about this. One of the small nitpicks that I have though is the player controls for minesweeper, as holding a tile down to flag it is kinda awkward for fast-pace gameplay. Something like an arrowpad or a flag modifier button at the bottom or side could help with this. This would also probably apply to some of the other puzzles since this appears to be a port of the desktop Linux version but it's still pretty functional. Overall, I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for lightweight classic puzzle games that get straight to the point.
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Phenomenal unobtrusive minimalist puzzle app

This is a perfect app for when you need to kill a few minutes, but don’t want to get hit with saturated colors, animations, or ads. No tracking or telemetry as far as I can tell. Puzzles are generated on your device, so you don’t need an internet connection. Great for avoiding worse distractions while testing code changes at work, having something to do on the bus, and I’ve even used it for several hours at a time on flights.
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the greatest

this app is fantastic! it has so many varieties of puzzle games and so many settings to tweak to make them just as easy or hard and big or small as you want them to be!! my only (minor) gripe is the lack of a zoom functionality, but even without that, it's a magnificent collection of puzzle games that everyone should have installed!
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No add, no music, just logic

Thanks to the devs who took time to share these logical puzzles with us.

Brilliant

I don’t usually bother writing reviews for apps but I have to shout out this one for: Not having ads or in-app purchases, not having daily goals or stats or check-ins. Just delightful, inventive puzzles to solve for the fun of it. It feels weird to not be rewarded with points and dings and a sense of progression, and to have to let the satisfaction of solving a puzzle be enough. It is JUST what I need. Would gladly buy the creator a coffee.
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true to word

simple offline puzzles with no ads. exactly as advertised 👌