Comparison

Sudoku vs BigPEmu

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

Head to head
About

Sudoku

Engage in a classic logic puzzle experience with a vast collection of unique challenges. Enjoy multiple difficulty levels, helpful tools, and the ability to track your progress and compete with friends. Solve puzzles anytime, anywhere, with features designed to enhance your gameplay.

Highlights
  • 1000 unique puzzles
  • Four skill levels
  • Show incorrect answers
  • Smart buttons and notes
  • Challenge a friend
  • Hints and 'All notes' feature
  • Pause and resume gameplay
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Join over 21,000,000 of our fans and download one of our Sudoku games today! Makers of the Best Sudoku Game of 2008, Sudoku (Free), we offer you the best selling Sudoku game for iPhone with great features and 1000 unique puzzles! Sudoku will give you many hours of fun and puzzle solving. Enjoy the challenge of solving Sudoku puzzles whenever or wherever you are using your iPhone or iPod Touch. OPTIONS All options are on by default, but you can turn them off in the Options menu • Show Incorrect :: Shows incorrect answers in red. • Smart Buttons :: Disables the number button when that number is completed on the game board. • Smart Notes :: Removes the number from the notes in the box, column, and row that contains the cell with your correct answer. FEATURES • 1000 unique handcrafted puzzles • ALL puzzles solvable WITHOUT guessing • Four different skill levels • Challenge a friend • Multiple color schemes • "ALL notes": tap the "All notes" button on to show all the possible answers for each square. Tap the "All notes" button off to remove the notes. • Hints: shows the answer for the selected square or a random square when one is not selected • Pause the game at any time and resume where you left off • Best times, progress statistics, and much more Do you want more? Try one of our other versions of sudoku which have all the same great features! * Try Color Sudoku for a fun twist to solving sudoku puzzles. * For advanced puzzle solving, try Expert Sudoku to challenge your sudoku solving skills.

About

BigPEmu

This application emulates the Atari Jaguar console, offering high accuracy and performance for its entire retail game library. It provides advanced features like saved states, movie recording, and customizable controller support, enhancing the classic gaming experience.

Highlights
  • Full retail library compatibility
  • High performance emulation
  • Accurate emulation
  • Saved states and movie recording
  • Jaguar CD support
  • Customizable controller overlays
  • Fast forward and rewind
Features
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BigPEmu is the first Atari Jaguar emulator to feature compatibility with the entire retail library, along with excellent performance and a wide variety of unique features: • Fast. The emulator runs the entire Jaguar retail library (with default settings) at full speed on most devices. • Accurate. It's the most accurate Jaguar emulator to-date, although it's still being improved all the time. • Better than hardware. Although the emulator defaults to settings which are catered toward compatibility and accuracy, it's capable of far more. BigPEmu enables you to play lots of Jaguar games at a full 60 frames per second for the first time ever! • Saved states and movies. Everything is completely deterministic, just like real life. That's right, I went there. This means that all "randomness" is also controlled by a preserved seed. BigPEmu can record movies from nothing but controller inputs, and play them back with perfect accuracy. You can even interrupt a movie's playback and start playing yourself at any point. • Jaguar CD support. In addition to supporting the entire retail disc library (along with Memory Track), complete hardware emulation means that the Virtual Light Machine is fully functional. Also featured is a virtual disc system with an audio loopback option, allowing the VLM to be used as a native audio/music visualizer. • Excessive presentation detail. There's native support for the Jaguar Game Drive's MRQ format in the software browser (as well as box art sourced from PNG files), support for global and per-game backgrounds, and even support for controller overlays! Everything about the touch overlay for the iOS port is fully customizable, from appearance to collision boxes. • Extra device support. Featuring emulated device support for analog controllers (both via external bank switching and the ADC), driving controllers, rotary controllers, and Team Tap. For native input devices, the iOS port supports any MFi "Extended Gamepad" type device as well as keyboards through Apple's Game Controller API. • Glorious shaders. The emulator comes equipped with a powerful, fully customizable postprocessing system. The system supports any type of effect you can imagine, from applying smoothing filters to simulating CRT displays. • Per-game profiles. Mapping the Atari Jaguar controller to anything other than a telephone with wings can get a little complicated, so you might want to switch your controller mapping up for different games. You can do that! With per-game profiles, you can automatically load up a new input scheme (or any other emulator setting) each time you load a game. • Time travel. Native fast forwarding and rewinding capability means you can speed forward through time or go back in time whenever you please. • Flexible scripting. BigPEmu features a powerful scripting system. The emulator comes with a variety of scripts to enhance popular Jaguar games in amazing ways, from analog controller support to native-resolution and stereoscopic rendering! • The usual. Enjoy all of the emulator niceties you've come to expect in modern times. Automatic preservation of EEPROM, PAL support, custom boot ROM images, native support for multiple display aspect ratios, resolution scaling, custom display cropping, extremely customizable input, and a whole lot more. BigPEmu and Swinecrafters LLC are in no way affiliated with Atari. The name "Atari" and all associated game console names are the property of their respective owners.

Screenshots

Sudoku4 screens
BigPEmu3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BigPEmu at 5.0 against Sudoku's 4.6. Sudoku's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $9.99) and ratings volume (590 vs 27). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sudoku costs $2.99 and BigPEmu $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BigPEmu holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sudoku has 590 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 94% and 94% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sudoku ships an update every 3 months, BigPEmu every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sudoku versus BigPEmu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSudokuBigPEmu
Price$2.99 — better$9.99
Rating4.6 (590 ratings)5.0 (27 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews94.1% of reviews
Number of ratings590 — better27
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB16 MB
Age rating4++9
DeveloperMighty Mighty Good GamesSwinecrafters LLC

Customer experience

Sudoku

All ratings585 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral3.4%
Negative7.2%
Written reviews322 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative2.8%

BigPEmu

All ratings26 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.9%

Bugs and requests

Sudoku

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • Difficulty level mislabeling

Requested features

4 requests
  • More puzzles and levels
  • Additional color scheme options
  • Ability to replay previous puzzles
  • Improved timer functionality

BigPEmu

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Sudoku

No in-app purchases

None

BigPEmu

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sudoku free?
Sudoku costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BigPEmu free?
BigPEmu costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sudoku or BigPEmu?
BigPEmu is rated higher. Sudoku averages 4.6 out of 5 from 590 ratings, while BigPEmu averages 5.0 from 27 ratings.
Do Sudoku or BigPEmu have ads?
Neither Sudoku nor BigPEmu shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sudoku or BigPEmu?
Sudoku ships an update every 3 months, and BigPEmu every 4 months. Most recently, Sudoku was updated on October 29, 2026 and BigPEmu on October 24, 2026.

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