Comparison

Stratego® Online vs Sumly

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

Head to head
About

Stratego® Online

Experience the classic two-player strategy game digitally. Deploy your army, outwit your opponent with hidden pieces, and capture their flag. Engage in online ranked matches, challenge AI, or play through a story campaign.

Highlights
  • Online ranked matchmaking
  • Challenge bot opponents
  • Single player campaign
  • Prepare piece arrangement
  • Rewatch games
  • Cross-platform play
  • Friend system
Features
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The beloved strategy game Stratego, known for its tactical depth and captivating gameplay, is now available to a global audience through a modern and engaging online platform! Stratego Online brings the timeless strategy and excitement of the original board game to your phone. Stratego is a two-player strategy game where each player controls an army of 40 pieces with the goal of capturing the enemy flag. The pieces of the opponent are hidden until engaged in battle, so you’ll have to be tactical to reveal the location of important enemy pieces. Use special pieces, like bombs, miners and spies to gain an advantage over your opponent and win. ONLINE RANKED MATCHMAKING Play competitive Stratego battles against players from all over the world! Climb the ranked ladder from recruit up to grandmaster and fight for a spot on the leaderboard. TRAINING Try your skills against one of the three bot opponents in a thrilling single-player match. Each bot brings a new difficulty level for you to overcome! SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN Experience a new way to play the board game in a story mode about a traitor that has infiltrated the bluecoat army. Play through 15 different gameplay scenarios with story, unique objectives, and new gameplay mechanics that can be recognized from other versions of Stratego throughout the years. PREPARE YOUR STRATEGY Stratego Online allows you to prepare your piece arrangement before you jump in a game, greatly reducing the setup time that is normally needed before starting to play. You can also rewatch your games to study your mistakes, adapt your strategies, and beat your rivals. CROSS-PLATFORM & SOCIAL You can connect and play with players playing on all our supported platforms. Add players as friends to chat with them, spectate their games and challenge them for friendly battles. FREE TO PLAY This game is not pay-to-win. All purchases are either cosmetic or unlock benefits that do not influence your win chance. CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT We’re constantly updating the game to release new exciting features. Join our Discord server so even your suggestions might be included in the next update! Support: Contact us by sending an email to support@wanted5games.com Privacy policy: https://www.wanted5games.com/privacy-policy General Terms and Conditions: https://www.wanted5games.com/tos

About

Sumly

Features
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Every line has to add up. That's the entire rule, and it's enough to keep you thinking long after you meant to put the phone down. Sumly is a puzzle about magic polygons. Drag numbered tiles into the empty spots on a shape until every line - every side, every diagonal - reaches the same target sum. Some tiles click into place right away. Others force you to rework the whole board. No trick beyond arithmetic and patience. WHAT'S INSIDE 20 hand-built levels, running from simple triangles to a full hexagon. Along the way you'll meet square rings, pentagons, and two puzzles borrowed from real history: the Lo Shu square, one of the oldest magic squares on record, and the square carved into Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving Melencolia I. Solve one and you get a short historical note about it. HOW IT LOOKS Sumly is drawn like a technical blueprint: black ink on plan paper. Every line of the shape carries a blue dimension marker, the kind an architect uses to note a measurement, except here it tracks the running total of that line live. It turns green the moment the line is complete, and red the instant you overshoot, so you always know exactly where you stand. A CALMER KIND OF PUZZLE There are no timers, no lives, no energy meters, and no streaks nagging you to come back. Nothing interrupts a level once it starts. Undo is unlimited, so you can rearrange freely and test an idea without any penalty for being wrong. Play for two minutes or twenty - the puzzle waits for you. Sumly keeps a running score called your Mind Score, which starts at 1000 and only goes up as you clear levels. As it grows you move through ranks - Apprentice, Solver, Geometer, Archimedean - and you can add your score to a global Top 100 list under a nickname you choose. No account or sign-in required. Sumly is free to play. All 20 levels and your first 3 hints are always free. If you run out of hints, you can watch a short optional video to earn one more. SUMLY PRO Sumly Pro is a single one-time purchase. It removes ads completely and gives you unlimited hints, plus two alternate app icons (a night-blueprint blue and a green variant), and a small ◆ mark next to your name on the Top 100 list. Pro never touches your Mind Score - nobody can buy their way up the leaderboard, so every rank reflects an actual solve. No forced sign-ups. No nagging notifications. Just a quiet board, a pencil-and-paper puzzle turned digital, and every line adding up to exactly what it should.

Screenshots

Stratego® Online4 screens
Sumly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Stratego® Online at 3 against Sumly's 1. Stratego® Online also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Stratego® Online sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Sumly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Stratego® Online versus Sumly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStratego® OnlineSumly
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (209 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews34.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings209 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size970 MB6 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperWanted 5 Games B.V.Jeronimo Lascurain

Bugs and requests

Stratego® Online

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Pieces not moving properly
  • Constant crashes on startup
  • Opponent disappearing mid-game
  • Incorrect piece placements

Requested features

5 requests
  • Attacker advantage option
  • Ability to customize pieces and boards
  • Improved AI difficulty levels
  • Chat functionality
  • Ability to save and load custom setups

Sumly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

15 purchases

Stratego® Online

Subscriptions2
  • Stratego Gold Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Stratego® Diamond Subscription$5.991 Month
One-time13
  • Stratego® Conquest Pieces$1.99
  • Stratego® Vintage Pieces$1.99
  • Stratego® Spies & Lies Pieces$1.99
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  • Stratego® Legacy Pieces$1.99
  • Stratego® Original Pieces$1.99
  • Coin pack 1$2.49
  • Coin pack 2$4.99
  • Stratego® Royal Bundle$6.99
  • Stratego® Aerial Combat Bundle$7.99
  • Stratego® Investigator Bundle$7.99
  • Stratego® Kaboom Bundle$7.99
  • Stratego® Campaign$11.99
  • Coin pack 4$24.99
1 purchases

Sumly

One-time1
  • Sumly Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Stratego® Online free?
Stratego® Online is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sumly free?
Sumly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stratego® Online or Sumly have ads?
Both Stratego® Online and Sumly show ads.

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