Sudoku Fever
A handheld sudoku game with multiple grid sizes.
Sudoku Fever, also known as Global Star Sudoku Fever, is a 2006 puzzle game from developer puzzle.tv and publisher Global Star Software, a Take-Two Interactive wing. Critics gave it mixed reviews, commending the puzzles but faulting the visuals and sparse extra content.
Quick Facts
- Platforms
- Game Boy Advance
- Released
- 8 February 2006
- Modes
- Single-player
- Publisher
- Global Star Software
- Developer
- puzzle.tv
- Genre
- Puzzle
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Gameplay
Sudoku Fever is a handheld version of the number-placement puzzle in which players fill a nine-by-nine grid with digits 1 through 9, ensuring each row, column, and three-by-three subgrid contains every number once. The game offers puzzles at varying difficulty levels—Classic, Eight, Mini, and Junior—using different grid sizes (9-by-9, 8-by-8, 6-by-6, and 4-by-4) and symbol-based puzzles. A Sudoku Solver mode allows players to input puzzles from other sources to receive a solution.
Reception
Critics generally enjoyed the puzzles but found the game limited in features and visually unappealing. GameZone praised the elegant puzzle design and gameplay choices but called the presentation average and uninteresting. Scott Alan Mariott of Allgame described the presentation as barebones, with ugly backgrounds and bland audio, though he noted the interface, options, and puzzles were great. Nintendo Power called the game underwhelming, citing bland presentation and few play modes. Jeuxvideo saw no advantage over pen and paper, finding the graphics austere and lacking color.
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