Comparison

Mindoku vs Murder Sudoku

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

Head to head
About

Mindoku

Features
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Mindoku is a modern Sudoku game designed for both beginners and experts. Train your brain, relax, and enjoy solving puzzles at your own pace. Features: -Thousands of unique Sudoku puzzles across multiple difficulty levels (Easy to Impossible). -Smart hints and notes to help you progress. -Game history: continue unfinished puzzles anytime. -Statistics tracking to measure your progress. -Earn and spend coins to unlock new puzzles or get assistance. -Clean and simple design for a distraction-free experience. Whether you’re a casual player or a Sudoku master, Mindoku makes every puzzle fun and rewarding.

About

Murder Sudoku

Engage in bite-sized logic puzzles that transform whodunit mysteries into detective work. Use deduction and clues to solve crime scenes, identify suspects, and reveal the killer. Enjoy pure logic challenges with no guessing required.

Highlights
  • Sudoku-style deduction
  • Hand-illustrated crime scenes
  • Endless logic cases
  • Pencil note-taking
  • Offline play
  • Short, satisfying sessions
Features
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Sudoku meets murder mystery puzzles. Murder Sudoku: Tiny Crimes turns whodunit mysteries into bite-sized logic puzzles. Every case gives you a grid of rooms, a victim, a handful of suspects, and a set of clues. Use deduction to work out where everyone was at the moment of the murder. The rules are simple, the cases are not. No two people can share a row or column, every clue is true, and there is exactly one correct solution. Solve the board and the mystery resolves itself: the suspect left alone with the victim is your culprit. No guessing. No luck. Just clues, logic, and a quiet little crime waiting to be cracked. FEATURES - Sudoku-style row and column deduction, reimagined as detective work - Cozy, hand-illustrated crime scenes full of suspects, rooms, and props - Endless cases, from gentle warm-ups to fiendish expert whodunits - Competitive leaderboards to race other detectives - Pencil notes to track your theories as the case comes together - Pure logic puzzles, every case solvable by reasoning alone - Short, satisfying sessions perfect for a coffee break or a commute - Play fully offline, anywhere - One-time purchase to remove ads. No subscriptions, ever If you love whodunit mysteries, detective games, logic grids, brain teasers, or a clever Sudoku variant, Tiny Crimes hands you a fresh case to crack one clue at a time. Follow the clues. Place the suspects. Find the killer. Can you crack every case?

Screenshots

Mindoku4 screens
Murder Sudoku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Murder Sudoku at 3 against Mindoku's 1. Murder Sudoku also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Mindoku sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Murder Sudoku sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mindoku ships an update every 3 days, Murder Sudoku every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mindoku versus Murder Sudoku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindokuMurder Sudoku
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (240 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—73.9% of reviews
Number of ratings—240 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDOSTAN TURLYBEKAlejandro Jimenez Rico

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Mindoku

One-time5
  • Starter Pack – 5,000 Coins$0.99
  • Small Pack – 15,000 Coins$2.99
  • Medium Pack – 30,000 Coins$4.99
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  • Large Pack – 50,000 Coins$7.99
  • Mega Pack – 120,000 Coins$14.99
12 purchases

Murder Sudoku

One-time12
  • 10 Hints$0.99
  • 8 Hints$1.99
  • 20 Hints$3.99
Show 9 more
  • Unlock Magic Dungeon$4.99
  • Unlock Farmyard$4.99
  • Unlock Grove in Pink$4.99
  • Unlock Dead Man's Cove$4.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • 50 Hints$5.99
  • 1,200 Gems$9.99
  • Remove Ads$9.99
  • 100 Hints$10.99

Questions

Is Mindoku free?
Mindoku is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Murder Sudoku free?
Murder Sudoku is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mindoku or Murder Sudoku have ads?
Both Mindoku and Murder Sudoku show ads.
Which is updated more often, Mindoku or Murder Sudoku?
Mindoku ships an update every 3 days, and Murder Sudoku every 5 days. Most recently, Mindoku was updated on October 6, 2026 and Murder Sudoku on October 31, 2026.

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