Rudoku vs Short Circuits
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rudoku
This is a challenging number and logic puzzle game with multiple modes and difficulty levels. Track your progress with detailed stats and earn achievements. Enjoy endless playability with unique puzzles and accessibility features like dark mode.
- Multiple game modes
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Variable board sizes
- Detailed gameplay stats
- Multiple achievements
- Dark and light color modes
- No in-app purchases
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Rudoku is an expert level puzzle challenge for fans of numbers and logic games. Multiple game modes, difficulty levels, and board sizes will keep your brain stimulated as you decipher the solutions to each puzzle. Maintaining high gameplay stats and earning multiple achievements will make Rudoku your go-to brain teaser. Take your time and see how long it takes you in Relaxed Mode. Speed and accuracy come into play in Race Mode when your goal is to solve the puzzle before time runs out. Endless Mode makes each game board increasingly difficult to solve. KEY FEATURES • Endless Playability - Puzzles will never repeat while multiple game modes, difficulty levels, and board sizes keep the challenge fresh and your brain sharp. • Game Play Stats - In game stats will let you know the duration of each game, how many moves you made, your win percentage, and more. • Dark and Light Colour Modes - This great accessibility feature makes the screen easier on your eyes in the dark. • Multiple Achievements - Earn awards and Game Centre points a number of different ways including level achievements and stats challenges. • No In-App Purchases - Pay once and play. No need to waste time on ads or pesky in-app purchasing gimmicks.
Short Circuits
A logic puzzle game where players rotate pieces to connect all wires. It offers a progressively challenging experience, starting simple and increasing in difficulty.
- Wire connection puzzles
- Piece rotation mechanics
- Progressive difficulty
- Logic-based gameplay
- Challenging levels
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Can you connect all of the wires? Rotate the pieces and use your logic to solve these puzzles! It starts easy but gets tough! Good luck!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rudoku at none against Short Circuits's 3. Rudoku also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 15 months). Short Circuits's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 85%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Short Circuits sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Rudoku asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Rudoku against 4.8 for Short Circuits. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 54 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Rudoku's written reviews are positive against 100% of Short Circuits's.
Rudoku ships an update every 3 weeks, Short Circuits every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rudoku | Short Circuits |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (19 ratings) | 4.8 (54 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 54 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Cerebral Gardens | GammaLateral LLC |
Customer experience
Rudoku
Short Circuits
In-app purchases
Rudoku
No in-app purchases
Short Circuits
- Get 30 Hints$0.99
- Get 70 Hints$1.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
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