Sven's SudokuPad Reviews

Don't get this app. The web version of Sven's Sudokupad is great, and continuously updated with more features and made compatible with new puzzle types. The steam app, on the other hand, is outdated and useless. Don't waste your money, use the website.

I just got this game on Steam to play some Sudoku puzzles featured on the CtC YouTube channel. I think I'm going to return it though because it doesn't have the features I thought it would. Firstly, I thought there would be a few more puzzles pre-installed. I have a few of the Android apps and figured that some of those same puzzle packs might be included here but it seems there are only about 10 pre-installed puzzles. I also thought there would be some sort of puzzle browser to search for new puzzles and to share created puzzles, but I guess you can only do this through copying/pasting URLs so if you don't have the URL you can't play the puzzle. This Steam app is also missing a lot of the features from the browser app as well as the Android apps like a Killer calculator, or different color pencil marks, or more than 9 cell colors, or the ability to use letters as pencil marks. From what I can tell, the last update was 2021. Are there any plans to update this version to match some of the other versions? At the very least, the pencil marking updates would be a very welcome addition. A puzzle browser would be really nice to see too. I'm probably going to return this until I see more updates. Just use the browser app until then. (https://sudokupad.app)

Sadly as others say, free web app sudokupad.app is much better. Sven Neumann, please update the app to match the web version or delete it from steam entirely.