Rated Sudoku Devlog #2 Rated Sudoku has surpassed other Sudoku games

v0.5.0 and v0.5.1 Patch Notes

I'm very happy to announce that versions 0.5.0, and 0.5.1 have been released. Among them, v0.5.1 fixes several bugs of v0.5.0. I summarize the improvements of both versions below:

• New feature: Custom game

• New puzzles: 186 puzzles

• AddedImprovementAdded keyboard only input support when solving puzzles

• Improvement: Automatically select the most recently modified profile

• Improvement: Profile name cannot be empty

• Improvement: Beautify the Select Profile Screen

• Improvement: Beautify the Leaderboard Screen

• AddedImprovementAdded total number of games played and win rate in the Leaderboard Screen
• AddedImprovementAdded help button to the Game Play Screen
• FixedBug fixFixed the issue where localized text are displayed a few frames late

• New language: Russian

• New language: Japanese

• New language: Traditional Chinese

Comparison with other Sudoku games

Rated Sudoku v0.5.1 and two other popular Sudoku games on Steam are compared below:

Notes for *:

• Competitor A has 225 puzzles as of now, but it also has an infinite mode, which means randomly generated puzzles as needed, except that the quality of the randomly generated puzzles on demand is not as good as the quality of the puzzles prepared in advance

• I don't know if Competitor B has 17 and 18 clue puzzles, this is because I didn't play to the end and don't know the content of the later puzzles

• Keyboard only input means only using the keyboard and not the mouse when solving puzzles

• Competitor A has achievements, but the meaning of them are confusing

Overall Result

Rated Sudoku is still in Early Access, but it has already surpassed other popular Sudoku games in terms of features and content.

The only two areas where Rated Sudoku is currently inferior to these games are the absence of the following features:

• Number highlighting, highlighting 1, 2, etc.

• Puzzle personal record, the shortest time a particular puzzle is solved

However, because there are more puzzles, features such as Custom Game, Leaderboard, etc., it has surpassed them overall.

Highlight 1: Pencilmarks

As shown in the screenshot, Rated Sudoku has Pencilmarks (small numbers) feature so that you don't need to rely on memory. It works very well.

Puzzles except easy ones will have slots with only 2-3 possibilities, but can't be decided for a while, and using pencilmarks to record them will make it much easier to solve.

This feature is also available in some other Sudoku games, but not in all of them.

Highlight 2: Custom Game

This version has one new feature, Custom Game. With Custom Games, you can play any puzzle! Just enter the puzzle into Rated Sudoku.

For example, if you see an interesting Sudoku puzzle on a website, you can enter it directly into Rated Sudoku to play it, as shown here:

Type in the puzzle content, click Check to find out if the puzzle is valid (i.e. if there is one and only one solution) and what its difficulty is, and then you can start solving the puzzle! It's that simple!

This feature is not available in most other Sudoku games.

Highlight 3: Great Keyboard and Mouse Input

Rated Sudoku has well designed keyboard and mouse input. You can play in