Thunderbird Strike vs Not Evil Sudoku
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thunderbird Strike
Fly as a thunderbird in this 2D sidescroller, defending Turtle Island from a destructive snake. Use searing lightning to protect the lands and waters from the Great Lakes to the Tar Sands.
- 2D sidescrolling gameplay
- Play as a thunderbird
- Defend Turtle Island
- Use lightning attacks
- Protect lands and waters
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In the 2D sidescroller Thunderbird Strike, fly from the Tar Sands to the Great Lakes as a thunderbird protecting Turtle Island with searing lightning against the snake that threatens to swallow the lands and waters whole.
Not Evil Sudoku
Enjoy a distraction-free Sudoku experience with helpful features like hints and real-time validation. Track your progress, compete globally, and customize the app with themes. Play daily puzzles for free or upgrade for unlimited games and advanced statistics.
- Fully offline play
- No ads or distractions
- Real-time move validation
- Shake for hints
- Daily puzzles with leaderboards
- Customizable themes and icons
- Notes and auto-clear notes
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A joyful sudoku-solving experience built natively for iPhone and iPad and optimized for a zen solving experience free from bloat and distraction. Designed to be easy to play and meet you where ever you are in your sudoku journey: a casual solver or a sudoku pro. Stuck on a puzzle? Shake your phone for hints and turn on move by move validation in settings to get immediate feedback on your solve. Tickle your brain as you learn new solving strategies and customize the app to your taste with themes and alternate app icons. Play a daily puzzle at a difficulty of your choice and see where you stack up with players across the globe. Or just turn off the stopwatch and relax. Key features: - Fully offline: no internet required - No ads or distractions - Real-time move validation to get immediate feedback - Shake for a hint on the next logical move - Leaderboards with assist tracking - Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels - Light/Dark mode - Stopwatch and best time tracking - Notes: Keep track of candidates - Auto-clear Notes: removes candidate numbers automatically in row, column, and box when they become outdated - Speed demon: Lock numbers and place them in multiple tiles at once - Arithmophobia: Sudoku with letters instead of numbers - Daily streak tracking - Daily reminder notifications - Highlighter: tap a number to highlight all its instances on the board - Themes to customize the interface (some require Pro) - Alternate app icons (Pro) - Charts and statistics (Pro): track solve speed over time and puzzle count by difficulty Play the daily puzzle at your preferred difficulty for free without any limits on assists or game features. Upgrade to Pro with a one-time purchase to unlock unlimited games, detailed stats, more themes, and alternate app icons. Pro supports Family Sharing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thunderbird Strike at none against Not Evil Sudoku's 1. Thunderbird Strike also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15). Not Evil Sudoku's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (75% vs 53%). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Not Evil Sudoku sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Thunderbird Strike asks for nothing beyond the download.
Not Evil Sudoku holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Not Evil Sudoku has 1.1K ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Thunderbird Strike's written reviews are positive against 75% of Not Evil Sudoku's.
| Parameter | Thunderbird Strike | Not Evil Sudoku |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (39 ratings) | 4.6 (1.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.9% of reviews | 74.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 | 1.1K — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 614 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elizabeth LaPensee | Ashish Selvaraj |
Customer experience
Thunderbird Strike
Not Evil Sudoku
Bugs and requests
Thunderbird Strike
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Not Evil Sudoku
Reported bugs
2 issues- Disappearing numbers when closing the app
- Numbers swapping to incorrect spots
Requested features
6 requests- Add auto-clear notes option without move validation
- Provide more theme color options
- Implement a 'warm' mode similar to other sudoku apps
- Add ability to remove notes after number is placed
- Highlight all instances of a number in the puzzle
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- Remove a number as a choice when it has been placed successfully
In-app purchases
Thunderbird Strike
No in-app purchases
Not Evil Sudoku
- Pro$4.99
Questions
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