Sudoku Epic vs Samurai Sudoku
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sudoku Epic
This app offers a comprehensive Sudoku experience with five distinct game modes, including classic 9x9, mini, Wordoku, Killer Sudoku, and daily challenges. It provides thousands of puzzles and various difficulty levels to sharpen your logic and problem-solving skills.
- Five Sudoku game modes
- Thousands of free puzzles
- Killer Sudoku mode
- Wordoku mode
- Daily new puzzles
- Play offline
- Hints and auto notes
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Sudoku Epic is a free sudoku game with five different sudoku games in one: Regular 9x9 puzzles, 6x6 mini, Wordoku (also known as Letter Sudoku), Killer Sudoku and daily soduko challenges. Killer Sudoku is an exciting mix of sodoku and kakuro. Wordoku is played with letters instead of numbers, and the puzzles contain words that function as hints. With thousands of puzzles and challenging goals, Sudoku Epic is the perfect app for exercising your brain! Features: • Five Sudoku game modes! • Thousands of free sudoku puzzles! • Killer Suduko: For expert puzzle solvers! • Wordoku: Find the hidden word! • Get new puzzles daily! • Auto notes • Play offline with no wifi! • Complete goals! • Five difficulty settings! • Get hints!
Samurai Sudoku
Experience a unique Sudoku challenge with five interconnected grids. Apply standard Sudoku rules to each 9x9 grid, filling numbers to ensure each row, column, and region has one of each digit. Offers multiple difficulty levels and puzzle variations.
- Five overlapping Sudoku grids
- Five difficulty levels
- Various Sudoku types (Gattai, Butterfly)
- Hint feature with conflict checking
- Highlight same numbers
- Autosave progress
- Record best completion times
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Samurai Sudoku puzzle contains five overlapping sudoku grids. The basic sudoku rules apply to each 9 x 9 grid. Basic Rule: Fill numbers in the board such that every row, column and region contains one occurrence of each number. **** Samurai Sudoku features **** # Content - 5 difficulty levels - Various types of Sudokus, including Gattai (3 overlapping sudoku grids), Butterfly (4 overlapping sudoku grids), etc. # Features - "Hint" auto fills the board with memo that has no direct conflicts with other numbers - Highlight same numbers as you select a number on board - Autosave the process of unfinished levels - Record best completion time for each level # Challenge - Game Center Achievements - Try to complete as many levels as possible If you have encountered any problem, please send an email to brightskygames@me.com
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Verdict
Sudoku Epic and Samurai Sudoku both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 90% of Sudoku Epic's written reviews are positive against 75% of Samurai Sudoku's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Sudoku Epic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Samurai Sudoku sells 24 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sudoku Epic holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 411 and 374 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Sudoku Epic's written reviews are positive against 75% of Samurai Sudoku's.
Sudoku Epic ships an update every 6 weeks, Samurai Sudoku every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sudoku Epic | Samurai Sudoku |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (411 ratings) — better | 4.6 (374 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 411 — better | 374 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kristanix AS | Stanley Lam |
Customer experience
Sudoku Epic
Samurai Sudoku
User reviews
Sudoku Epic
From 411 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Challenging and addictive
- 👍 Great variety of puzzles and difficulty levels
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- 👍 Helpful features like pencil marks and hints
- 👍 Excellent for improving cognitive skills
Room to improve
- 🔍 Aggressive and intrusive ads
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or performance issues
- 🔍 Ads interfere with gameplay by running the timer
- 🔍 Lack of landscape mode support on tablets
Samurai Sudoku
From 374 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Excellent variety of puzzle types and game modes
- 🧠 Challenging and mentally stimulating gameplay
- 👍 User-friendly interface and intuitive controls
- 🎨 Well-designed graphics and visual presentation
- ⭐ Addictive and entertaining for extended play
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezing issues
- 📱 Unresponsive touch controls requiring multiple taps
- 🎥 Video loading problems for weekly puzzles
- 💾 Loss of purchased content and progress after updates
- 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertising
Bugs and requests
Sudoku Epic
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unsolvable puzzles due to rendering errors
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to lock in confirmed numbers
- Option to display current time of day
- More variety in puzzle formats beyond Sudoku
- Daily challenge or leaderboard features
Samurai Sudoku
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes when watching required videos
- Weekly puzzle videos fail to load
- Game freezes mid-puzzle with no progress saved
- Purchased puzzles disappear after app updates or reinstalls
- Ad screens block gameplay with no visible close button
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- Unresponsive number input requiring multiple taps
- App locks up permanently in certain situations
- Video orientation mismatch on horizontal device orientation
- Occasional glitches requiring app restart
- Multiple solutions recognized as single correct answer
Requested features
10 requests- Auto-fill feature for candidate notes/pencil marks
- Pause button for games in progress
- Left-handed mode option
- Highlight vertical and horizontal lines for easier solving
- Ability to create and submit custom puzzles
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- Larger puzzle sizes and more complex variations
- Clue system that provides one hint at a time
- Screen lock to prevent auto-dimming during gameplay
- Bundled subscription option instead of individual pack purchases
- Auto-generate puzzles instead of hard-coded content
In-app purchases
Sudoku Epic
- Premium Edition$2.99
Samurai Sudoku
- Diagonal Samurai Pack$1.99
- Samurai Beginner Pack$1.99
- Samurai Median Pack$1.99
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- Samurai Advanced Pack$1.99
- Samurai Expert Pack$1.99
- Samurai Beginner Pack 2$1.99
- Samurai Advanced Pack 2$1.99
- Samurai Basic Pack$1.99
- Samurai Gattai-3 Pack$1.99
- Butterfly Sudoku$1.99
- Flower Sudoku$1.99
- Gattai-3 Diagonal Pack$1.99
- Sudo-Kurve$1.99
- Twodoku$1.99
- Tridoku$1.99
- Samurai Median Pack 2$1.99
- Jigsaw Samurai Pack$2.99
- Anti Diagonal Samurai Pack$2.99
- Cross Sudoku$2.99
- Gattai-3 Anti Diagonal Pack$2.99
- Samurai Sudoku$3.99
- Sohei Sudoku$3.99
- 30 Days of All Puzzles$5.99
- 90 Days of All Puzzles$14.99
Questions
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