Merge Magic! vs Sudoku
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Merge Magic!
Combine magical items and creatures to restore a cursed land. Hatch and evolve mythical beings, solve puzzle levels, and clear fog to bring life back to your garden. Discover hundreds of objects and unique hybrid creatures.
- Combine over 500 objects
- Hatch and evolve mythical creatures
- Solve 81 challenging puzzle levels
- Lift curses and fight fog
- Discover unique hybrid creatures
- Participate in frequent events
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Discover enchanted tales and quests in the mysterious world of Merge Magic! where you can combine everything into better and more powerful items for your journey. Merge eggs to hatch magical creatures, then evolve them to uncover more powerful ones! Encounter and solve challenging puzzle levels: match the items to win, then bring rewards back to your Garden to collect and grow. The only hope to lift the curse from the bewitched land rests in YOUR extraordinary power to MERGE ANYTHING -- eggs, trees, treasures, stars, magical flowers, and even mythical creatures. Reveal wonders as you merge your garden to perfection and nurture your amazing creatures! MERGE MAGIC! FEATURES: • Discover over 500 fantastic objects to match, merge and interact with through 81 challenges! • Unearth fairies, unicorns, minotaurs and never-before-seen hybrid creatures like Butterphants (butterfly & elephant), Peacats (peacock & cats) and many more. •An evil curse has been placed on the garden, fight off the fog and lift the curse to restore, and take back the creatures’ home! • On your puzzle journey, you may cross paths with evil witches. You will need to watch out and be careful! • Participate in frequent events, win more advanced creatures that you can take back to your garden. Merge Magic! is brought to you by Gram Games, the studio behind the top hit titles Merge Dragons!, 1010!, Merged!, Six!, Bounzy!, Merge Town!, Merge Farm!, Paint Tower!, and Merge Gems! Use of this application is governed by Zynga’s Terms of Service, found at https://www.take2games.com/legal. Merge Magic is FREE to download and includes optional in-game purchases (including random items). Information about drop rates for random item purchases can be found in-game. If you wish to disable in-game purchases, please turn off the in-app purchases in your phone or tablet’s Settings.
Sudoku
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Sudoku that opens straight into a puzzle. No menu. No lobby. No daily-reward popup. Tap the icon and you're already playing a board pitched at your level. Finish it — or get bored — swipe up, and the next one rises from the bottom. The feed never dead-ends and never tells you to come back tomorrow. ONE PUZZLE AT A TIME, FOREVER - Launches directly into a playable puzzle - Swipe up on the board to move on; the board tracks your finger and springs back if you change your mind - Swipe away a puzzle you never touched and it leaves no trace - Started one? Save it for later, reset it, or skip it - 10,000 puzzles in the catalog, topped up quietly in the background PUZZLES THAT FIND YOUR LEVEL Every board is graded by the reasoning it actually takes to crack — the chain of techniques you have to reach for, not how many squares happen to be blank. Ratings then move with real play as people solve, fail and skip. The app reads your recent solves and picks from the band around you, so the difficulty follows you up. - Easy — a clean warm-up - Medium — needs a plan - Hard — needs a technique - Expert — needs all of them EVERYTHING YOU NEED, NOTHING YOU DON'T There is no hint button. This app won't solve a square for you and won't nudge you toward the next move — the puzzle is yours. It just takes the bookkeeping off your hands. - Self-cleaning notes — place a number and it clears that square's pencil marks and strips the digit from every peer in the row, column and box - Quick Enter — hold a digit, then tap squares to drop it in - Matching digits — the digit you're holding glows everywhere it already sits - Counts on every key — each number key shows how many of that digit are left - Undo and erase — step back through entries, erases and note changes - Mistakes, optional — leave conflict highlighting on for three counted mistakes, or turn it off and find out at the end - Pause — the board hides behind a cover that ignores every touch - Start over — givens back, everything else cleared - A shelf for later — park a puzzle with your entries, notes and elapsed time intact EVERY PRESS TICKS - Controls ease under your finger the instant you touch them - Complete a 3x3 block and the whole block pulses as one piece, with a stronger haptic beat - Finish a row or column and the line pulses the same way — one beat for the line, not nine - Haptics off in one tap - Light, dark, or follow the system — live, with no restart 300 PUZZLES OFFLINE Three hundred boards ship inside the download, so it plays fine on a plane, on a subway, or anywhere with no signal. NO ACCOUNT. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. - No sign-up, no email box, no password — your device is identified anonymously - No ad SDKs, no advertising identifier, and the app never shows the "Allow App to Track" prompt - Nothing sold, nothing brokered, nothing linked to you elsewhere - Crash, performance and basic usage analytics only, listed plainly in the privacy policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sudoku at none against Merge Magic!'s 10. Sudoku also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Merge Magic!'s advantage is chart position (#71 vs unranked). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Merge Magic! sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Sudoku asks for nothing beyond the download.
Merge Magic! ships an update fortnightly, Sudoku weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Merge Magic! | Sudoku |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (91K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 58.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 91K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #71 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 346 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gram Games | Syness Studios LLC |
Bugs and requests
Merge Magic!
Reported bugs
4 issues- Creatures disappearing from garden
- Inability to sell or delete items
- Compasses not properly regenerating
- Compatibility issues with device updates
Requested features
4 requests- More frequent level updates
- Ability to delete or sell unwanted items
- Shorter cooldown times for creatures and compasses
- More ways to earn premium currency without spending money
Sudoku
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Merge Magic!
- 30 Day Magic Gem Payout$4.99
- Premium Land$4.99
- Pouch of Magic Gems$6.99
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- Premium Land2 variants$8.99
- Goblet of Magic Gems$12.99
- Gold Pass$12.99
- Bowl of Magic Gems$24.99
- Chest of Magic Gems$59.99
- Wagon of Magic Gems$99.99
Sudoku
No in-app purchases









