Suguru vs DEBUGGER
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Suguru
Engage in challenging logic grid puzzles without distractions. Hundreds of puzzles are available from the start, with unlimited hints and solution checking. Enjoy a pure puzzle-solving experience that trains your brain and helps you relax.
- Distraction-free puzzle experience
- Hundreds of puzzles ready to play
- Unlimited hints
- Solution checking
- Expansion packs available
- Logic-based number placement
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Suguru brings you the joy of pure puzzle-solving. Just you, the grid, and the challenge. No fuss, no frills. Solve these logic puzzles to challenge yourself, relax, train your brain, or simply pass the time. What the app offers: - A distraction-free puzzle magazine experience. - Hundreds of puzzles, all ready to play from the start, no unlocking required. - Unlimited hints that guide, not just give away the answer. - Option to check your solution at any time. - Play for free with ads, or remove them with a one-time purchase. - Expansion packs for even more brain-teasing fun. About the puzzle: Suguru is a challenging logic grid puzzle, also known as Tectonic or Number Blocks. It is a number-placement puzzle based purely on logic, similar to Sudoku, Futoshiki, and the closely related Ripple Effect puzzle. The goal: Fill each region with numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., until the region is full, but make sure that the same numbers do not touch, even diagonally! Every puzzle has exactly one solution, which can be found through logic reasoning. No guessing required. Are you up for the challenge? Can you solve them all?
DEBUGGER
This puzzle game simulates a hacker terminal, requiring players to match symbols to debug systems. Manage resources like CPU and memory while traveling across a global map to fix issues. Compete on leaderboards and advance through engineer ranks in this engaging, time-based challenge.
- Terminal simulation interface
- Global data center travel
- Resource management (CPU, MEM, TRACE)
- Combo and chain multipliers
- Engineer rank progression
- Monthly global leaderboards
- Escalation challenges
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■ It looks like a terminal. That's the point. Black screen. Neon green text. System logs scrolling forever. CPU load and memory pressure climbing. To anyone glancing over your shoulder on the train, you are debugging a complex production system. What you are actually doing is connecting three or more matching symbols. ■ How it plays You are an incident response engineer covering 16 data centers around the world. - Pick a degraded node on the world map - Travel there (the farther it is, the longer it takes) - Patch the bugs on site (that's the puzzle) - Earn experience and move to the next incident (credits arrive on promotion) Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo, Cape Town and more. Travel time is derived from real geographic distance, so crossing the planet actually costs you time. ■ Three numbers are trying to kill you While you work, three resources keep rising: - CPU — above 72% sectors of the board freeze and become unusable - MEM — clearing five or more at once brings it down hard. Small clears barely dent it - TRACE — accelerates the higher CPU and MEM get. This is your real timer If any of them hits 100%, the session is lost. Clearing three at a time will never outrun the load. You have to build bigger COMBOs, and land them fast enough to hold the CHAIN multiplier. ■ Fatigue, and the engineer ladder Deploying and traveling makes you tired. Fatigue only recovers in real time, and going in exhausted means starting from a worse baseline. Knowing when to rest is part of the game. Patching bugs earns experience and promotions: INTERN, ENGINEER, SENIOR, STAFF, PRINCIPAL, DISTINGUISHED, FELLOW — and beyond. The final rank is SINGULARITY at level 85. Restore all 16 nodes and the world is reinfected at a higher severity. It does not end. ■ Compete monthly Register a handle and you appear on the global leaderboard — by experience earned, by best COMBO, and by incidents contained. It resets every month, so a late start is never a lost cause. Registration is optional. ■ Escalations Eight times a day, one site escalates. Containment takes three passes and the site relocates after each one. Each escalation has its own rule for what counts as progress, and the briefing tells you before you commit. ■ Languages The interface is English — it has to read as a terminal. The manual and the daily orders are also available in Japanese. It follows your device language, and you can switch it from the profile screen. ■ Made for - Short sessions with real pressure - Not wanting to look like you are playing a game in public - People who like black terminals ■ Ads and purchases Free to play all the way through. Ads are mostly opt-in — watch one to skip travel time or recover fatigue, only when you choose to. A one-time PRO license removes ads permanently.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Suguru at 5.0 against DEBUGGER's 2.0. DEBUGGER's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Suguru sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and DEBUGGER sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Suguru holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Suguru ships an update every 3 months, DEBUGGER every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Suguru | DEBUGGER |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bas Adriaan van den Berg | SUMIRE SAKAMOTO K.K. |
Customer experience
Suguru
DEBUGGER
In-app purchases
Suguru
- Expansion 4$1.99
- Expansion 1$1.99
- Expansion 2$1.99
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- Expansion 3$1.99
- Remove ads$3.99
DEBUGGER
- 25 Credits$0.99
- 80 Credits$1.99
- PRO License$2.99
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- 300 Credits$5.99









