# Sudoku Puzzle World — user reviews > 361 indexed App Store user reviews of Sudoku Puzzle World by NewsLeap, rated 4.80/5 from 19,733 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sudoku-puzzle-world/id834107022/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sudoku-puzzle-world/id834107022.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 16,151 · 4★ 2,745 · 3★ 545 · 2★ 127 · 1★ 165 ## What do users think of Sudoku Puzzle World? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Challenging puzzles - 🧠 Keeps mind active - 🎨 Beautiful backgrounds - 🤖 Helpful note-taking feature - ⏱️ Timed gameplay **Cons** - 💢 Excessive ads - 🔄 Repeated puzzle formats - 🤯 Difficulty spikes between levels - 🔌 Drains battery life - 🙅‍♀️ Unwanted extra games **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes or freezes - Incorrect number entry not registering - Settings not saving properly **Most requested features** - Pause button - Ability to save multiple games - Customizable difficulty settings - Progress tracking and achievements ## Newest reviews (20 of 361) ### 5/5 — Best *2026-07-29, version 6.0.12* Loving how enjoyable it is ### 5/5 — Sudoku *2026-07-26, version 6.0.12* I really like it if I have thoughts on my mind ### 5/5 — Enjoy the challenges *2026-07-25, version 6.0.12* After some time, I’ve found some ways to move quicker through the puzzles. They continue to make me work to solve. ### 5/5 — Digital is great *2026-07-22, version 6.0.12* Playing digital sudoku is so much better than paper because you don’t have to erase the ‘notes’….done for you automatically. ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-07-22, version 6.0.12* Great way to pass the time. ### 5/5 — Master *2026-07-21, version 6.0.12* Good game ### 5/5 — Sudoku *2026-07-20, version 6.0.12* The best of all by far ### 4/5 — Good Game *2026-07-19, version 6.0.12* This is one of the best Sudoku games I have played. Large clear screen and plenty of games in different levels to play. ### 5/5 — Addictive! *2026-07-17, version 6.0.12* ❤️ this game 07/2026 Love playing this game ### 5/5 — Good brain exercise *2026-07-15, version 6.0.12* Simple and effective. Can set own challenges and use the difficulty levels for speed trials etc ### 5/5 — Excellent game play *2026-07-11, version 6.0.12* No complaints at all until the recent update seemingly removed world time rankings. In my case, the hard puzzle times is what I’m looking for or any puzzle times. This feature needs to return. ### 5/5 — Awful redesign *2026-07-09, version 6.0.12* This redesign is terrible. Making the numbers below the puzzle hi light the same color as the numbers above is terribly distracting. I also miss the lovely photographs. ### 4/5 — Great Challenging Game *2026-07-03, version 6.0.12* Like the format, but the new design is not done well. The layout is such that the bottom row of numbers are too close to the bottom of the grid, thus unnecessary mistakes are made. ### 5/5 — Excellent, challenging game *2026-07-01, version 6.0.12* Amazing, I love to play as much as possible!! ### 5/5 — Sudoku world puzzle *2026-06-29, version 6.0.12* Great game ### 4/5 — Reggie *2026-06-29, version 6.0.12* Good ### 5/5 — Good *2026-06-28, version 6.0.12* Great but basic game ### 4/5 — Rating *2026-06-26, version 6.0.12* Good game. ### 5/5 — Sudoku *2026-06-22, version 6.0.12* Great game. I enjoy this game immensely now that Im aging lovely to keep my brain active. ### 5/5 — Mrs A *2026-06-20, version 6.0.11* Love this game, feel it keeps me on my toes. Love the pictures too and not many ads. I’m not keen on the new format, the numbers are too big. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Why did you change it so much? *2026-05-29, version 6.0.5* It was perfect as it was it had a nice simple serene calming aesthetic and atmosphere and now it looks like a slop game someone made to mine bitcoin in the background. It's just so cheap and ugly looking how could you do this to my favorite sudoku app??? ### 1/5 — 4 star until new app update on iPhone. *2026-05-12, version 6.0* Now App will not load from either Manual selection or when Siri requested. 😭 😭 😭 😭 ### 1/5 — Done with this *2026-05-11, version 6.0* The latest update ruined a perfectly good game. The update eliminated the achievements that I was working on and added daily puzzles and events that I just do not like, with no obvious rewards. When using the notes function there is no longer any indication of which numbers are noted and which were removed like it was before. The final blow is that the in-game feedback option does not work. Done with this game. ### 1/5 — Annoying pop-ups *2025-09-29, version 5.1.3* Other games pop up. I have zero interest in any of them. They are impossible to close, so I can’t play sudoku as planned. ### 1/5 — Ad grab *2025-02-17, version 5.1.3* This game is ad heavy after every puzzle there is an ad, game does not remember what puzzles you complete. ### 1/5 — Inept software *2024-12-31, version 5.1.3* When finishing a game, the software does not recognizes it. The next time you sign in, it takes you back to your last game, and you must complete the last few numbers again. This adds to your time as well. The numbers at the bottom are too close, and I click the number next to the one intended. I have written this in reviews before. They just get ignored. A new problem is that in ios 18, even though I have turned off the Game Center, it still shows messages in this game that it's off and to sign in. There are no option within the game to turn off these annoying messages. ### 1/5 — Ad spam garbage *2024-12-13, version 5.1.3* Enough said ### 1/5 — Horrible ads *2024-09-29, version 5.1.3* Ads now come before every game, and there is no where to get out of a lot of them. I’m having to close the app and restart it half the time because it gets stuck in the ad with no way out! Highly annoying! ### 1/5 — Worthless *2024-07-07, version 5.1.3* Ads don’t clear game is worthless. Try one of the thousand others! ### 1/5 — What happened?? *2024-03-11, version 5.1.3* This app used to have beautiful UI, and I loved this app the most bc there was no clock pressuring me to make moves. I just updated it and now its so ugly and also nothing like it was before, the menus have changed. Not just moved but are changed and it’s just not fun anymore. I was working on my 1600 game achievement, I had earned every other achievement. This is just really sad. Deleting 😔 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Joyful! *2026-08-18, version 6.0.12* Relaxing and fun! ### 5/5 — One of the better Sudoku *2026-08-17, version 6.0.12* A few adds not very often. ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-08-15, version 6.0.12* Great game, love the expert best. Easy is too easy. ### 5/5 — Good morning numbers *2026-08-15, version 6.0.12* Enjoy the many different levels and the daily puzzles ### 5/5 — Nice mind exercise *2026-08-15, version 6.0.12* I use this app to exercise my mind as well as helping me to get to sleep. ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-08-13, version 6.0.12* Love this app. Very challenging. ### 5/5 — Great mind game! *2026-08-12, version 6.0.12* Keeps my mind sharp! ### 5/5 — Great Brain Exercise *2026-08-01, version 6.0.12* Builds left brain logic. Fun and rewarding. ### 5/5 — Sudoku *2026-07-30, version 6.0.12* Lots of fun for past time. ### 5/5 — Great mental gymnastics *2026-07-29, version 6.0.12* I’m 64 and do these every day to fight off dementia symptoms --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*