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Chess Sudoku

Nick Carney · Games · United States store
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Revenue a month, worldwide EST
$488
Likely $163 to $1.5K
New ratings
Tracking
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Rating
4.9 of 5
148 ratings in this store
Countries it ranks in
0
was 0 on Oct 18, 2026

Revenue

Estimated from the grossing charts of Oct 25, 2026 in the 53 countries we track, and ratings growth on the App Store.

EST. REVENUE / YEAR · WORLDWIDE
$5.9K
3.6 new ratings a month on average since launch
EST. LIFETIME DOWNLOADS
5.2K to 14.8K
Estimated from ratings count
WHERE ITS USERS ARE · SHARE OF RATINGS
  • United States 148 ratings52%
  • United Kingdom 50 ratings18%
  • Germany 25 ratings9%
  • Canada 22 ratings8%
  • Australia 12 ratings4%
  • Netherlands 9 ratings3%
  • Italy 5 ratings2%
  • France 4 ratings1%
HOW SURE ARE WE
Not in any grossing chart, so this comes from ratings growth (3.6 new ratings a month on average since launch): revenue grows with new ratings, more slowly for apps that collect ratings fast. Tested on 418 apps with verified revenue: typically off by about 2 times, and big earners tend to come out low. Countries we don't track (and Google Play in China, which doesn't exist) aren't included, and neither are ads or web payments. Gross revenue before store fees.
RATINGS
148
AVG RATING
4.89
PRICE
$4.99
AGE
6.7y
LAST UPDATE
1887d ago
VERSION
1.6
SIZE
71 MB
AGE RATING
4+

Last 30 days

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COUNTRIES NOW
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Money and momentum

Measured from the store, not estimated.

WHAT IT CHARGES
No in-app purchases
Earns from its upfront price, ads or payments outside the store.
REVIEW MOMENTUM
0.1 reviews / week
  • Trendfalling
  • Recent reviews average4.6 stars
  • Recent 1 and 2 star share0%
From the latest 34 written reviews, covering 2427 days.
RELEASE CADENCE
0 updates in 90 days
  • Typical gap between releases63 days
From the last 6 versions listed on the App Store.
RATING BREAKDOWN
148 ratings
5★92%
4★5%
3★2%
2★1%
1★0%

What users want

From the latest 34 reviews on the United States App Store, Mar 3, 2020 to Oct 5, 2026: 0% are 1 or 2 stars. Open a theme to read what people wrote.

WHAT THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT · SHARE OF BAD REVIEWS

Only 0 of the latest 34 reviews are 1 or 2 stars, too few to find patterns. Users are mostly happy.

WHAT THEY ASK FOR
  • Please add more levels! 5★, Oct 5, 2026
  • The variants add a tremendous amount of fun. 5★, Aug 15, 2020
  • The only thing I wish was different is the corner notation for the 5 cause they go to the middle which can be confusing, but this is really nitpicking. 5★, Jul 4, 2020
WORDS THAT KEEP COMING UP IN BAD REVIEWS

Nothing stands out.

WHAT THEY LOVE · SHARE OF GOOD REVIEWS
Fun, addictive23%

7 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.

★★★★★ The variants add a tremendous amount of fun.
★★★★★ I've got hours of fun out of this, and for $5, it's easily worth it.
★★★★★ If you're a fan of sudoku mixed with other logical constraints, this app will given you many tens of hours of fun.
Looks great16%

5 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.

★★★★★ The solving interface is also fantastic.
★★★★★ Great interface, far better than free sudoku apps.
★★★★★ Generally helped me find where I forgot to clean a note that would have shown that I had the next step set up.
Worth the money16%

5 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.

★★★★★ Some I broke free after a couple hours but others I needed to use the hints which are very helpful.
★★★★★ I've got hours of fun out of this, and for $5, it's easily worth it.
★★★★★ Great interface, far better than free sudoku apps.
Easy to use6%

2 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.

★★★★★ Not to brag but the easy puzzles were a breeze, as they should be.
★★★★★ I'm not a huge sudoku fan as I find them quite tedious, and I've probably only done easy sudokus in newspapers.
Useful, it helps6%

2 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.

★★★★★ Some I broke free after a couple hours but others I needed to use the hints which are very helpful.
★★★★★ the hints especially are very helpful in teaching — I do feel like I'm getting better over time/learning the tricks!

Found by matching words and phrases in the reviews, not read by a person. A review can count toward more than one theme.

What users say

Latest reviews, United States App Store.

★★★★★Oct 5, 2026
More please!

Please add more levels!

★★★★★Feb 27, 2023
Chess soduku make less sense, queen moves especially

I am a chess player so I expected chess soduku to make sense. Queen move ones though clearly have some additional rule. It says no duplicates on the diagonals, but it’s only some diagonals and not the others. For instance in puzzle 2, the 1s x out all the spots in row 5. In puzzle 1, it starts with two fours across the long upper left to lower right diagonal. Huh?!

★★★★★Sep 30, 2021
More puzzles?

I love this app!! The chess move limitations add such interesting new patterns and techniques. However, I’ve finished all the knight move puzzles multiple times and am getting bored of them! I’d love to see another update with more puzzles.

★★★★★Dec 25, 2020
Multiple solutions

Puzzles number 30 In the knight sudoku has 2 solutions.

★★★★★Nov 30, 2020
Queen’s move errors

Several other reviews have stated it already, but the puzzles don’t seem to follow the queen’s move restrictions very well. One review listed a few and the very first one had multiple contradictions. I love the app but the devs should probably take a look at this.

★★★★★Nov 24, 2020
Great Software and Top Notch Challenge

After discovering CTC from YouTube, its safe to say I knew this app would be worth the price. The mechanics of center and corner notes, coloring, and multiple cell selection makes playing these intricate puzzles so much smoother. Not to brag but the easy puzzles were a breeze, as they should be. The hard ones definitely stumped me multiple times. Some I broke free after a couple hours but others I needed to use the hints which are very helpful. I recommend watching their videos if hesitant on the purchase, but be warned you will be a sudokuholic after!

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App Store ads

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Growth research

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ASO keywords

Most repeated terms in the listing. Highlighted ones also appear in the title.

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What's new in 1.6

15 new King Sudoku puzzles, all 100 puzzles are out now!

Released Mar 2, 2020. Current version shipped Aug 25, 2021.

Store description

***** AUGUST UPDATE ***** 15 new King puzzles, all 100 puzzles are out now! ------------------------------------- Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game that connects two of the world’s biggest mind games: Chess and Sudoku! How does Chess Sudoku work? Well we’ve taken the classic sudoku game everyone knows and loves and created puzzles with chess-related twists! There are three different types of puzzles in the game: Knight Sudoku; King Sudoku and Queen Sudoku. In Knight Sudoku, in addition to the normal rules of sudoku (no repeated digit in a row/column/3x3 box) a digit must not appear a chess knight’s move away from itself. This simple extra restriction introduces lots of clever additional logic that makes the puzzle even more interesting! King Sudoku and Queen Sudoku work the same way: ie it’s always normal sudoku but, in King Sudoku a digit must not be a single diagonal move away from itself; and, in Queen Sudoku, every 9 in the grid acts like a chess Queen and must not be in the same row/column/3x3 box OR diagonal of any other 9! As with their other games (‘Classic Sudoku’ and ‘Sandwich Sudoku’), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have personally crafted the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that the sudoku is interesting and fun to solve. In Cracking The Cryptic’s games, players start with zero stars and earn stars by solving puzzles. The more puzzles you solve, the more stars you earn and the more puzzles you get to play. Only the most dedicated (and cleverest) sudoku players will finish all the puzzles. Of course the difficulty is carefully calibrated to ensure lots of puzzles at every level (from easy through to extreme). Anyone familiar with their YouTube channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching to be better solvers and, with their games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills. Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel Cracking The Cryptic. Features: 100 beautiful puzzles from the Knight, King and Queen variants Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!

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