Illuvium vs Icon Sudoku
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Illuvium
Build and manage a thriving city in a dynamic economic simulation. Strategically allocate resources, trade profitably, and expand your influence. Own, buy, and sell in-game assets securely through blockchain integration.
- Strategic city-building
- Dynamic economic simulation
- Resource management
- Blockchain asset trading
- High-quality graphics
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Engage in the ultimate city-building and economic strategy experience with Illuvium: Zero. Strategically build your city, manage resources, to rule resources in Illuvium, every decision impacts your City’s success. - Strategic City-Building: Design and manage your city with intricate detail—Optimise resource allocation to expand your city and increase your economy share. - Dynamic Economy: Dive into a realistic economic simulation where market forces and trade decisions affect your progress. Balance resource extraction with demand and trade profitably. - Stunning Graphics and Intuitive Controls: Experience high-quality graphics that bring your city to life. Easy-to-navigate controls make building and managing your city a breeze. - Blockchain Integration: With blockchain technology, you can securely own, buy, and sell in-game assets.
Icon Sudoku
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Icon Sudoku takes the classic logic puzzle you love and reimagines it with icons in place of numbers. Same satisfying deduction, a fresh look that makes every puzzle feel new. ICONS NOT YOUR THING? We're hurt. Deeply. But we'll get over it. Tap 123 Numbers on any puzzle, or flip the switch on the home screen, and play every puzzle in plain old numbers, free. Switch back to icons whenever you like. When you win, the pictures sneak back in to celebrate with you. NINE ICON PACKS Choose an occupation pack and solve with its themed icons. Each pack brings its own art, mascot, music, and mood: Space, the free starter pack Barista Teacher Nurse New Parent Founder Retail Chef Vet Or unlock every pack at once, including every pack we add later, with one purchase. HOLIDAY SPECIALS A month before each big US holiday, its own board of 25 puzzles opens with holiday icons, colors, music and falling fireworks, leaves, eggs or snow, from New Year's and Valentine's Day to Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Play them in any order, look for the surprise hiding on every board, and clear the board to win that year's trophy. TROPHY ROOM Every holiday trophy and Monthly Challenge clear, on one shelf. Win a holiday again the next year and its trophy counts up. FOUR DIFFICULTIES From relaxed Easy puzzles to brain-bending Expert, with hundreds of hand-tuned levels across chaptered level maps. Earn up to three stars per puzzle: one for finishing, one for skipping hints, one for a clean solve with no mistakes. MONTHLY CHALLENGE A fresh set of 50 puzzles every month, playable in any order, that mixes the packs you own. Clear milestones for coin rewards and climb the monthly leaderboard against friends. BUILD A STREAK Solve at least one puzzle a day to grow your streak and earn daily bonuses, with milestone rewards along the way. HELP WHEN YOU WANT IT Reveal a cell when you're stuck, re-roll a puzzle that isn't clicking, and turn on optional live feedback to catch mistakes as you make them. You're always in control of how much help you get. NEW TO SUDOKU? A quick tour walks you through your first puzzle, and you can replay it any time from Settings. PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Spanish, French, German and Brazilian Portuguese, with every pack's logo drawn in your language. Made for iPhone, iPad and the folding iPhone. PLAY YOUR WAY Game Center leaderboards and achievements, iCloud sync so your progress follows you across devices, and a calm, clean interface designed to get out of your way. Icon Sudoku is the work of Shawn Taylor, a U.S. Army veteran of two combat deployments, Kosovo and Iraq, and the author of a series of occupation-themed activity books. This game is a companion to those books, built to keep your mind sharp one puzzle at a time. Download Icon Sudoku and find your pack. No Ads. No tracking. Just games.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Icon Sudoku at none against Illuvium's shown. Icon Sudoku also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks). Illuvium's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Illuvium sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Icon Sudoku sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Illuvium ships an update every 5 weeks, Icon Sudoku every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Illuvium | Icon Sudoku |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (65 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 67.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 65 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 381 MB | 495 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Illuvium Labs - FZCO | Australia's Computer Techs Pty Ltd |
Bugs and requests
Illuvium
Reported bugs
6 issues- Sign-in server down
- Cannot sell, transfer, or do anything of value on free to play
- No option to access paid lot on mobile
- Game does not start on iPhone 13
- Profile reverted to lower level after upgrade
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- Game not loading on the app
Requested features
8 requests- More languages, especially German
- Tutorial for beginners
- PC and mobile availability
- AI for language translation
- More combat against friends
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- Allow free land users to use self-produced fuel and blueprints
- Progress bar on passive fuel generation
- Fix profile level reverting bug
Icon Sudoku
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Illuvium
- Handful of Credits$0.99
- Bundle of Credits$4.99
- Stack of Credits$9.99
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- Coffer of Credits$19.99
- Hoard of Credits$49.99
- Pile of Credits$99.99
Icon Sudoku
- Vet Pack$0.99
- Chef Pack$0.99
- New Parent Pack$0.99
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- 5,000 Coins$0.99
- Founder Pack$0.99
- Retail Pack$0.99
- Live Mistake Feedback (Expert)$0.99
- Live Mistake Feedback (Hard)$0.99
- Live Mistake Feedback (Medium)$0.99
- Every Pack$5.99









