Starlight X-2: Space Sudoku

I've decided to update my review having earned all of the achievements for Starlight X-2. This is a superb game for people who enjoy Sudoku style puzzles, and in my opinion, the game is drastically underrated. I played this game consistently for a couple of years, totalling over 190 hours to "complete" all of the achievements. Starlight X-2 has endless levels of varying difficulties, with fifty new puzzles released every day. It is well worth buying and playing!!

This is more a mixed review than a negative one. I like the concept of working with two different sets of logic (stars and asteroids) to unravel puzzles, but typically the initial array of planets gives you so much upfront information that you can immediately fill in most of the grid with rote, simple deductions. Sometimes in medium difficulty puzzles and [i]rarely[/i] in easy puzzles I wound up with a 50/50 on a single pair of stars but even then that was easily resolved by then filling in all the rote asteroid information. In the larger-size hard puzzles I found myself switching between star and asteroid logic more often, and sometimes I had more than just a single 50/50 to resolve at the end, both of which I appreciated, but ultimately it still felt like filling in most of the grid did not require much [i]insight[/i], which was disappointing. In larger grids it was also easier to overlook something obvious, especially with all of the light beams filling up rows and columns, but this is a minor complaint. I don't know whether the logic system is simply incapable of producing truly challenging puzzles or whether the (procedurally generated?) puzzle selection fails to draw out t…

Starlight X-2 is one of the most relaxing puzzle games I've played in a while. I didn't realise when I fired it up, but it's sudoku. Stars shine light, asteroids block, and there's a bunch of rules around where things can and can't be placed. Simple but fun - and endless. Starlight X-2 is essentially Sudoku, but with stars and asteroids instead of numbers. Would loved to have seen new mechanics introduced. Best feature is the limitless number of puzzles included. For more niche curation, follow me at: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27440015-CSH-Picone/

A solid, sudoku-descended deductive puzzler with tons of levels of varying sizes and difficulties. Runs great on Linux.

This is a decent paper-puzzle-ish game with a solid UI and an initially atrocious title. It was eventually renamed to "Starlight X-2: Space Sudoku", which is a bit better. Gameplay This is essentially a paper-puzzle-like experience with a neat presentation. There are 550 levels, plus infinitely more levels, albeit all auto-generated. That means they're all interchangeable, which makes the idea of completing any level set more daunting and less appealing. Unfortunately, that's the main motivation one has in such games, so that made it harder to stay interested. In addition, I didn't find difficult puzzles particularly interesting to solve. Similar to randomly generated Sudoku puzzles, you just follow a rote algorithm step by step, irrespective of level size. The core puzzle idea is decent for paper puzzles. I don't mean that as criticism; I like lots of paper puzzles, like Slither Link. But when I see 550 levels and know that there won't be any new mechanics, I wonder why this was sold as a video game. Visuals: In bigger levels, the screen gets cluttered very quickly, at which point it becomes unreadable (similar to solving Sudoku puzzles and writing number clues into every sing…

Sudoku... in space!!!