Chess Sudoku
Studio Goya · 2020 · Indie, Casual, Strategy, Puzzle, Board Game
PC
Very Positive96% · 178
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About Chess Sudoku
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 (coming after launch as a free update!).
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:
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 (coming after launch as a free update!).
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:
- 40 beautiful puzzles from the Knight and King variants
- Frequent updates adding new puzzles to enjoy
- A large free update adding puzzles from the Queen Sudoku variant
- Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Chess Sudoku, developed and published by Studio Goya, is a thoughtfully designed logic puzzle experience that builds upon the foundation of traditional Sudoku while introducing a set of chess-inspired constraints that significantly deepen the challenge. Rather than altering the core rules, it expands them in a way that demands a broader perspective, transforming a familiar puzzle into something far more intricate and mentally engaging. It is a game that rewards patience, spatial reasoning, and a willingness to adapt to layered systems of logic. At its base, the game retains the classic Sudoku structure, where players must fill a 9×9 grid with numbers from 1 to 9 without repetition in any row, column, or subgrid. What sets it apart is the addition of rules derived from chess piece movements. Depending on the puzzle, certain placements are restricted by how a knight, king, or queen would move across a chessboard. This means that numbers cannot be repeated within those movement patterns, effectively adding a new dimension to the puzzle. These constraints force players to think beyond the immediate grid and consider how distant cells interact, making each decision more complex and int…2 found this helpful
This is a great way to learn Sudoku variants!2 found this helpful
In Chess sukuko Their is no tutorial for the intimidating Queen Sudoku. Which causes me to question reality. And everything i know. Again with no sound (realisistic). No Steam acheievements or trading cards. Which is fine. Just great! No really... What is Chess Sudoku? It is merely one of the best versions of Sudoku on earth. Truely inspirational! I have never heard of it. I have sercrete thought about this as a process for creating Sudoku puzzles. Implementing this rule and or rules like this without telling anyone. This gives me an idea. Of Tetris Sudoku. Which would be insane, But also almost converge on this. Crap. (no offense) This isn't even a real Sudoku game, Intead it is Crack. But i mean that it in a non-perjorative sense and or as a compliment. This is a good game. 9 out of 10 Sudoku's'. There is no sound, blood and or gore, or and or battle/ranking multiplayer. My main issue is no cloud saves. This was made by a youtube channel. And youtube. Allows saves. More or less. Or something like that. So it is ironic really. If you are having a bad day play this game. And i am always having a bad day. Which is good for Sudoku as a w…
there are multiple solutions to some puzzles but the game only recognizes 1 solution to solve the game
sudoku is fire and lowkey this version makes it more doable
Very fun and relaxing if you like Sudoku and want creative puzzles to solve.
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