Classic Sudoku
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 40h 40.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.12/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 492 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube's most popular Sudoku channel, this is the brand new “Classic Sudoku” game that their viewers have been requesting for the last two years!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 72 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
24 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 10 percent off across all of them, roughly 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sprout (free, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats 12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull ($2.99, scores 81).
More about Classic Sudoku
Of the 333 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
Players
- Players online
- 7 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 04:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great version of sudoku. I profoundly wish the highlighter had more colors; it's just an easy way to test scenarios of putting in one number versus another, but you run out of colors if you're using it that way.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Came across a tiktok saying a sudoku with lots of info sometimes is more challenging to solve compared to ones with less info. I then made haste to google which is the best sudoku game available on Steam. Reddit led me to this one with no computer-generated puzzle, so it's a no-brainer (Yes I'm that easily influenced). I got humbled rq on Puzzle #3. After 200 mins of me staring into its soul, I finally recalled some...
I love these creators and I have played these puzzles multiple times over and will continue to play them but the game is super glitchy with selecting cells for me with the mouse. I was having issues where I would select a cell and then when I would move my mouse it would select the cells I moved the mouse over even though I was not holding down any buttons on the mouse. I changed the selection so I could only select...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Classic Sudoku scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1188330/classic-sudokuReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.