Comparison

Hex FRVR vs Nudoku

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hex FRVR

This is a relaxing puzzle game where you fit hexagonal blocks into a board. Create and destroy full lines in three directions to earn combo bonuses. No time limit makes it ideal for casual play.

Highlights
  • Hexagonal puzzle board
  • Fit blocks into blanks
  • Create and destroy full lines
  • Combo bonuses
  • No time limit
  • Relaxing gameplay
Features
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Hex FRVR has been downloaded more than 1 Million times. Join the fun and play now! Hex FRVR is an easy to understand yet fun to master puzzle game. The unique hexagon puzzle board is a fun challenge for even the advanced puzzle addict. Create and destroy full lines on the screen in any of the primary three directions by dragging and dropping blocks to the screen and get amazing combo bonuses by destroying multiple lines at the same time. No time limit! A fun and relaxing puzzle game.

About

Nudoku

Features
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This is a Sudoku that can be played with different types of numbers, emojis, drawings or colours. Games can be imported and exported, and a free filling mode allows to set up a game manually. Notes can be used to show which values may match in a position. To solve the puzzle, you have to fill all cells so that in each row, column, and quadratic block of 9 cells each of the 9 symbols appears exactly once. The game offers 4 difficulty levels from easy (around 30 positions left filled) to highest difficulty level with normally around 21 positions left filled. As an additional feature there is a chinese character training mode, which presents the thousand characters of the classical Qianziwen primer in simplified and traditional characters in 125 verses of 8 characters plus the verse number in simple chinese numerals, complete with pinyin transscription, english translation and voice reading the characters. The game offers downloadable illustrations to vary the design. More designs will follow. The hint button either shows errors in already filled cells or, if everything is correct, offers one new correct filling. The note edit button in the middle toggles the note edit mode. With this, instead of the value of the cell possible candidates can be selected that are then shown in a grid inside the cell. Notes that are or become infeasible will be suppressed in the display. In the free filling mode, all cell notes can be activated per menu at once to compose a complete game setup. If any of the note displays become empty, no solution is left. The game will have a single solution when all remaining notes show a single option. In free fill mode, the hint button also checks if a board with a single solution has been reached. In this case, the background turns green and the play button is activated to turn the free fill board into a normal game. Both free filled boards and normal games can be saved. loaded and shared. When a following game cannot immediately be presented after finishing one, for example due to a change in the game level, the game shows a status bar that indicates where across the 81 positions the current iteration starts to look for a solution. Since a game is only valid if there is one single solution possible, it has to retry when more than one solution is found. Normally this is done in the background while playing, but occasionally under some circumstances it will show. The game will play a a couple of notes every second with a pitch from a curated scale that indicates in which of the 9 blocks the current iteration starts. When the music stops that normally means that a single solution is near because the current iteration is not being aborted. Setting up a Sudoku game is a mathematically interesting problem. The more interesting a game setup gets, that is, the less cells are left filled while still having a single solution, the longer it takes to verify this. On the other hand, fewer cells left filled do not guarantee a more difficult path to the solution.

Screenshots

Hex FRVR4 screens
Nudoku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Nudoku at none against Hex FRVR's shown. Hex FRVR's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hex FRVR sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Nudoku sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hex FRVR ships an update every 2 weeks, Nudoku every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hex FRVR versus Nudoku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHex FRVRNudoku
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (4.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB16 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFRVR ApSPETER KOLLNER

Bugs and requests

Hex FRVR

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezes on startup
  • Scores and progress lost after updates
  • Ads reappear even after paying to remove them

Requested features

4 requests
  • Bring back single tile pieces
  • Add more customization options
  • Implement a proper high score system
  • Allow background music playback

Nudoku

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Hex FRVR

One-time9
  • Unlock Earth Theme$0.99
  • Unlock Sunset Theme$0.99
  • Unlock Neon Theme$1.99
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  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Unlock Dark Blue Theme$2.99
  • Unlock Pastel Theme$3.99
  • Unlock Pixel Theme$4.99
  • Unlock Flower Theme$4.99
  • Unlock Gold Theme$9.99
3 purchases

Nudoku

One-time3
  • Autumn 2025$0.99
  • Halloween 2025$0.99
  • Qianziwen Training Mode$1.99

Questions

Is Hex FRVR free?
Hex FRVR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nudoku free?
Nudoku is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hex FRVR or Nudoku have ads?
Hex FRVR shows ads; Nudoku does not.
Which is updated more often, Hex FRVR or Nudoku?
Hex FRVR ships an update every 2 weeks, and Nudoku every 3 weeks. Most recently, Hex FRVR was updated on October 29, 2026 and Nudoku on October 28, 2026.

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