SudokuTournament.com vs Colossal Cave 3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SudokuTournament.com
Engage your mind with classic number puzzles. Play solo at your own pace or compete in monthly tournaments against players worldwide. Offers various difficulty levels, progress tracking, and helpful in-game assists.
- Classic Sudoku puzzles
- Monthly tournaments
- Solo play with statistics
- Multiple difficulty levels
- In-game assist features
- Daily challenges
- Light/dark mode
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Keep your brain sharp and active while having fun. Play solo at your own pace or challenge yourself against other sudoku lovers around the world by playing in a monthly tournament! Millions of people play sudoku every day to stimulate their minds and enjoy solving puzzles. The SudokuTournament.com app has thousands of sudoku puzzles in many different difficulty levels to help keep your mind active, unwind from stress, and challenge yourself. The SudokuTournament.com app has classic sudoku puzzles from easy to diabolical difficulty levels so you can choose whether you want a more relaxing game to pass the time, or a more challenging game to test your mind’s sharpness. Take a break from daily life and engage your brain and focus to remove distractions. Play the same puzzle with your friends by simply sharing the puzzle’s unique code. You and multiple fiends can all play the same puzzle at the same time! Improve your solving skills and speed by playing in a monthly tournament and being matched with sudoku players of a similar level. Track your wins and losses each month and increase your level over time as you play matches. Track your solo play progress with easy to understand statistics and compare with world players through achievements and leaderboards. We developed new insightful visuals to view your progress and improvement statistics by viewing your own historical game progress, as well as comparing your achievements and stats with worldwide players on leaderboards through Apple Game Center. Play across multiple devices with cloud save. The SudokuTournament.com app has many features to assist in playing the game such as hints, matching numbers highlighting, preventing unneeded notes and more. These can all be turned off at your discretion. This engaging sudoku app has: * Show if numbers are placed incorrectly * Lock correctly placed numbers to not be changed * Highlight matching numbers and note numbers * Prevent placing note if number is already in row, column or box * Clear unneeded notes once a number placed correctly * Hide number buttons when all of that number has been placed * View in-depth statistics and compare to world leaderboard players * Light/dark mode * Choose from many different colored background colors * Daily challenges and awards for completing a full month of challenges * Offline play and no ads with a premier subscription *Tournament play requires an internet connection
Colossal Cave 3D
Embark on a cozy 3D adventure through a vast, magical cave system. Solve intricate puzzles at your own pace with an auto-magic map and limited inventory. Discover hidden treasures and encounter quirky creatures in this retro-inspired exploration game.
- First-person point-and-click exploration
- Limited inventory management
- Auto-magic map tracking
- Strategic logic-driven puzzles
- Encounter fantasy creatures
- Retro adventure atmosphere
- Customizable settings
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Colossal Cave is a classic, cozy 3D Adventure. Slow down, explore a massive magical, labyrinthine cave system, all while solving clever, sprawling puzzles at your own pace. Auto-magic maps, limited inventory, treasure search, all the fantastic creatures and a deep mystery at the heart of the experience. > COZY CAVE ADVENTURE First-person POV with classic point-&-click style controls: walk, look, interact, and test your theories. Limited inventory requires clever management in its own right. A magical series of maps quietly and automatically tracks where you’ve been, even marking where you’ve dropped items. Simply focus on strategy and exploration, instead of wrestling with navigation. > CHILL VIBES, CLEVER MYSTERY This is not a frantic action game; no frenetic timers shouting at you, no combo meters to maintain... just you, your lamp, and a series of intertwined, sprawling, twisty corridors full of brainy, logic-driven challenges. Take your time: • Try weird solutions. Take notes. Trial and error can be your friend. • Double back to old rooms with new ideas and unlock potential new discoveries. • Follow that “what if I…?” inclination and see what the cave gives back to you. > CREATURES, TREASURE & STRANGE MAGIC The cave is quiet, but not without your footsteps. You’ll bump into: • Mischievous dwarves with sharp daggers and sharper tempers. • A demanding, grumpy troll guarding a rickety bridge. • A noticeably absent giant. Did you notice that? • Flickering hinkypunks and other odd cave-dwellers. A handsome pirate, perhaps? • Hidden treasures, strange artifacts, and places that feel just a little too magical to be real. Some encounters are charming, whilst others are just dangerous enough to keep you on your toes... but it all stays firmly in “casual mystical adventure,” not horror. Just fantasy with a slice of mystery. That said, all good Adventures suggest one should save early, save often. > RETRO-COOL, PLAY IT YOUR WAY Colossal Cave 3D leans into that old-school Adventure game atmosphere: colorful environments, shadowy silhouettes, bats, and a focus on exploring the world for clues rather than being led around by the nose. There is plenty of customization allowing you to structure your vibe with a variety of options, including comfort tweaks and settings. Reverse direction, or nuke the narrator. It's all there for you. Play exactly how you like... curled up with the game on a couch, in a car, on a bus, on the plane... slowly exploring through the cave one mystical passage at a time. > FEATURES • Relaxed, point-&-click style exploration in a fantastical cave • Limited inventory that makes item choices and puzzle routes consequential • Handy auto-map that shows where you’ve been and where you've dropped items • A cast of dwarves, elves, whisps, a dragon, and other quirky cave creatures • Plenty of strategic puzzles with satisfying “aha!” moments • Retro-cool adventure vibes inspired by classic games • Flexible customization options so you can make the adventure as cozy and enjoyable as you want • The mythic, mellow cavecation! Venture down into Colossal Cave, follow your curiosity, and see how far your lamp... and your wits... can take you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Colossal Cave 3D at none against SudokuTournament.com's shown. SudokuTournament.com's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 weeks) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. SudokuTournament.com sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Colossal Cave 3D sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SudokuTournament.com holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 33 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 62% and 61% positive.
SudokuTournament.com ships an update every 4 days, Colossal Cave 3D every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SudokuTournament.com | Colossal Cave 3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (25 ratings) — better | 4.2 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews — better | 60.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 2.0 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Syntaxity Inc. | Cygnus Entertainment, LLC |
Customer experience
SudokuTournament.com
Colossal Cave 3D
In-app purchases
SudokuTournament.com
- Premier Access Monthly$0.991 Month
- Premier Access Annually$4.991 Year
- No Ads$1.99
Colossal Cave 3D
- Colossal Cave 3D Full Version$9.99
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