Comparison

Flames Stories vs Sudoku Master Pro

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

Head to head
About

Flames Stories

Engage in interactive visual novels where your choices determine the story's direction and your character's appearance. Explore diverse genres like romance, fantasy, and thrillers with multiple endings.

Highlights
  • Interactive visual novel gameplay
  • Character customization (hairstyles, outfits)
  • Branching story routes
  • Multiple endings
  • Diverse genres (romance, fantasy, thriller)
  • New content added regularly
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Flames Stories is an interactive visual‑novel / otome dating‑sim where your decisions shape the plot and your character’s style. Choose your look, your outfit, your hairstyle - and whose heart you trust. Romance mixes with drama, fantasy, historical adventure and thriller: Today — a cosy manor in the suburbs. Tomorrow — a secret art auction in the 1970s. Next day — a perilous investigation in a haunted castle. Each story offers tight dramaturgy, branching routes and multiple endings. Features: 1. 100+ hairstyles & 40+ outfits - every hairstyle comes in an expanded color palette 2. All your choice‑stats in a handy menu 3. Lightweight app optimised even for older devices 4. Fair monetisation - earn gems by watching ads, premium choices stay open to everyone We’re constantly adding new content: upcoming seasons will include two alternative half‑season routes, and the next story brings 5+ branching mini‑plots to replay your way. Start with 100 free gems - join Flames Stories now and be one of the first readers!

About

Sudoku Master Pro

Features
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Sudoku Master Pro is a quiet, carefully made Sudoku for people who like the logic as much as the numbers. Each puzzle has one solution, and its difficulty is earned, not estimated. After a grid is generated the app solves it the way a person would, with naked and hidden singles, pairs, box–line eliminations and X-Wings, and names it by what it took. Easy and Medium fall to singles alone. Hard needs pairs. Expert asks for a hidden pair or an X-Wing. Evil goes past the known techniques. You always know what a label promises before you start. Hints are honest. A hint places a digit and tells you which technique found it, with the cells it reasoned from lit on the board. If you have written a wrong digit, the hint corrects that first; it never puts a wrong number on the grid. Free play gives every puzzle a small hint budget. The board is made for long sessions. Digits land with a soft spring, a row or box that closes gets a brief sweep, a wrong digit shakes and is marked twice, not just by colour. Notes are pencil marks in the corners, and a single tap writes every candidate into every empty cell; one undo takes them all back. Choose cell-first or digit-first input. With no cell selected, tapping a digit lights every place it already sits. On an iPad keyboard the number keys write, the arrows move and N, H and space do what you expect. A daily puzzle, the same for everyone, each day. Weekends are easy, Fridays evil. Days solved in a row make a streak, and the calendar keeps every past day: the last seven are open to all. The ledger keeps what you did: best and average time per difficulty, the last twelve weeks as a grid of days, recent times, and a list of achievements. Finish a grid and share it as a square print of the solved board with your time. Bring your own puzzle. Type in a grid from the newspaper; the app checks that it has a single solution, grades it, and solves it with you, hints included. Light and dark are designed separately, on four papers: stone, snow, paper and high contrast. Your digits are written in one ink; five inks to choose from. Sounds are the board's own, synthesised and quiet: a tap for a digit, a tick for a note, two wooden notes when a row closes. They follow the silent switch and can be turned off. No account, no ads, no tracking, no network. Sudoku Master Pro collects no data; everything stays on your device. Sudoku Pro is a single one-time purchase: unlimited hints, all five inks, entry from paper and the whole daily archive. No subscription.

Screenshots

Flames Stories4 screens
Sudoku Master Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sudoku Master Pro at none against Flames Stories's shown. Flames Stories's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Flames Stories sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Sudoku Master Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flames Stories ships an update every 3 weeks, Sudoku Master Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flames Stories versus Sudoku Master Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlames StoriesSudoku Master Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (24 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB7 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperELATE GAMES Kft.Hayri Odabas

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Flames Stories

One-time10
  • Candles 1$0.89
  • Crystals 300$1.39
  • Candles 3$2.69
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  • Soul Flame 1$6.00
  • Crystals 1500$7.19
  • "Starter" Pack$7.99
  • Crystals 3000$13.49
  • Candles 30$16.00
  • Crystals 5000$17.99
  • Soul Flame 3$17.99
1 purchases

Sudoku Master Pro

One-time1
  • Sudoku Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Flames Stories free?
Flames Stories is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sudoku Master Pro free?
Sudoku Master Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flames Stories or Sudoku Master Pro have ads?
Flames Stories shows ads; Sudoku Master Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Flames Stories or Sudoku Master Pro?
Flames Stories ships an update every 3 weeks, and Sudoku Master Pro every 2 weeks. Most recently, Flames Stories was updated on November 3, 2026 and Sudoku Master Pro on October 31, 2026.

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