Simple Games vs Slatework

Simple Games is a quiet collection of 65 classic games you can play at your own pace. No subscriptions. No account required. No streaks, notifications, or limited-time events. All games and gameplay features are available for free. Play Sudoku, Solitaire, Minesweeper, Nonogram, Mahjong Solitaire, Kakuro, Number Match, Sliding Puzzle, and many more classic puzzle and casual games. PLAY OFFLINE Games work without an internet connection, so you can play on flights, trains, commutes, or anywhere connectivity is limited. 65 GAMES IN ONE APP A growing collection of familiar puzzle, card, logic, and casual games in a single lightweight app. NO INTERRUPTIVE ADS Simple Games does not use interstitial, rewarded, or app-open ads. When you're online, a small banner may appear while playing. A single optional purchase removes ads permanently. EVERY GAME IS FREE No game, difficulty, hint, undo, or gameplay feature is locked behind a subscription, purchase, or rewarded ad. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Start playing immediately. Your game progress stays on your device. NEARBY PLAY (OPTIONAL) Play 14 supported games with someone nearby over Bluetooth or the same Wi-Fi. The host approves each join request. Chat is optional and can be enabled when creating a gathering. Game and chat history is stored only on the participating devices. Nearby Play is not available on the web. CLUB HOUSE (OPTIONAL) Club House is also optional. Join a Club with just a nickname — there is no account. While you're in it, each game you finish sends its result (time, moves or score) to the Clubs you joined, automatically — only in the games that support Clubs, and nothing you played before joining. Members' personal bests sit side by side; in most games the daily puzzle is the same board for everyone. You can disconnect, delete your own records one by one, or change your name at any time. PixApps runs the Public Club House. You can also start your own Club and invite family or friends with a link — PixApps runs that one too. BUILT TO BE SIMPLE No streaks. No login bonuses. No push notifications. No artificial urgency. Just games. Simple Games is built around a simple promise: Honest by design. Simple games, built in the open.

Slatework is a collection of thirteen classic logic puzzles. It opens on a grid, works with no signal, and asks you for nothing: no account, no ads, no subscription. Every board is generated on your device the moment you ask for it, and checked by a solver before you see it. Each one has exactly one answer, reachable by logic alone — no guessing at any difficulty, and no pack of puzzles to run out of. Thirteen types • Killer Sudoku — sudoku with cages that have to add up • Kakuro (Cross Sums) — a crossword written in numbers • Hashi (Bridges, Hashiwokakero) — join the islands into one network • Slitherlink (Loop the Loop) — one closed loop, drawn from the clues • Futoshiki — a Latin square with greater-than signs across it • Binairo (Takuzu, binary puzzle) — zeros and ones, never three in a row • Nurikabe (Islands and Walls) — islands of the right size, in one sea • Shikaku (Rectangles) — cut the grid into rectangles that match a number • Akari (Light Up) — light every square, and no lamp in another lamp's line • Masyu (Pearls) — a loop that turns on black pearls and runs through white ones • Norinori — one domino in every room • Heyawake — shaded rooms, and no white line running through more than two • Yajilin — a loop and a shading, on the same board Every type has a walkthrough that teaches its rules on a real board, and a rules card to open mid-board. The board • Drag to draw a line, drag to paint a wall — never one tap per segment • Pencil marks, cleared from the row and column for you if you want them • Undo and redo as far back as you like; every move saved as you make it • Mistakes shown your way: off, on Check, or as you make them. Nothing ever ends a puzzle • Pinch to zoom on the big grids, and a left-handed layout for the keypad • A colour-blind palette in which nothing is carried by colour alone • Grids from 4×4 to 20×20, and tiers named for the reasoning they need Hints that explain themselves A hint is the next real deduction the solver would make, written out in a sentence with the squares it is about lit up. Look, then the reason, then the move — never a revealed answer, and never something you could not have worked out. A puzzle a day One daily puzzle in every type, every day, at every difficulty. Your streak is counted quietly and never nagged about. A reminder is there if you want one, and it is an alarm on this device: nothing leaves it to make that happen. Made to be looked at Six board palettes, from warm paper through to full-contrast black on white. Thirteen drawn marks, one per type. A finished board reports your time and your previous best, and then stops: no confetti, no coins, no levels. Your progress, and your file Statistics per type, per size and per difficulty, with charts that answer whether you are getting faster, and a month view of everything you have solved. One backup file holds every puzzle, game, statistic and setting and reads back on any device — there is no account and no cloud copy, because there is no server anywhere in this app. One purchase, not a subscription Every puzzle type, every daily puzzle at every difficulty, and unlimited puzzles are free, and always will be. The unlock adds the rest: every grid size up to 20×20, the Hard and Expert tiers on every type, unlimited hints, all six themes, the whole daily archive, and the charts behind your times. One payment, held by your Apple Account and restored with one button on any device you sign into, including every puzzle type added after it. What this app will never do No ads. Not on opening, not between boards, not in exchange for a hint. No subscription, no coins, no energy, no lives. No account and no sign-in. Nothing that needs a network — puzzles are made on this device and your progress never leaves it. And nothing that ships free is ever moved behind the price. For anyone who does the puzzle page first: cross sums, bridges, loop the loop, binary puzzles, and the Japanese pencil puzzles that never got a good app.