Flow Fit: Sudoku

Flow Fit is a genuinely fun, interesting, and unique extension of Sudoku. I play a lot of grid puzzles so my perspective may be skewed, but I found the initial levels (ranked easy and medium difficulty) to be extremely dull. The answers were almost all immediately obvious. However, once I skipped ahead to the hard packs, it was a totally different game and quite a lot of fun. The challenge is similar to playing moderate/hard Sudoku without using notes. The use of shapes lessens the difficulty a bit, unfortunately-- if there's only one T-shaped piece left, there's going to be one T-shaped slot available, so if you've been playing correctly you can pretty much ignore the numbers for several pieces per game. Still, I'm very happy with this game, and look forward to playing it a lot more.

This game is a unique take on sudoku, using various shaped tiles instead of entering each number directly. The levels are generated in a way that allows them to be solved logically without guess work. I have played tens of thousands of rounds of regular sudoku, using the various strategies and annotations to solve without trial and error. Unfortunately this game has a serious flaw, which is that the difficulty quickly becomes so great that it becomes pure tedium to try and identify a valid move. This happens towards the end of the “hard” levels. The fundamental flaw is that the game provides no mechanism to make annotations on the game board. Yes, you can position pieces around the outside of the board, but that provides only the most primitive assistance. There is simply no way I would be taking notes on a piece of paper in order to try and solve the puzzles in this game. I feel this game is going to turn too difficult too quickly for most casual players, and it doesn’t provide enough tools for hard core players to reasonably solve the difficult puzzles. That only leaves guess work and luck, which is not why people play these sorts of games. 3/5 for now.

I finished all (free) levels in flow and saw the notification they developed this game and I absolutely love it. It’s not too easy yet not too difficult. I think my favorite aspect though is how non-interrupting the ads are in this game. I’m sure this will change over time, but I really hope it doesn’t. The ads I’ve been getting have been little pop ups that allow me to exit the ad immediately instead of waiting 15-30 seconds like most ads. I usually just throw my phone on airplane mode or close out of the app to avoid ads lol. Great work on this one guys!

Love this game, I play all of the flow for games so was excited to see they came out with a new one. It’s very different but I really do enjoy it. The ads are not overwhelming, between games they’re only 5 seconds but you can watch a 30 second ad to get a free hint. Fair deal to me. The only gripe I have is that there is no undo button. It’s not uncommon that I accidentally “pick up” the wrong piece, or my finger lifts off the screen or something so it’s dropped in the wrong slot. Of course, you can just move it where it needs to be and continue but then you haven’t completed the level perfectly. There’s an undo button on all the flow for games so it would be nice to have one for this game too. It just needs to undo once.

If you like Flow Free and the like, you should not expect to automatically take to this. But like the other Flow puzzles, the premise is simple: place the puzzle pieces so no number repeats in the same row or column. Quite easy to start and it doesn’t get difficult for several sets maybe 50 or 80 puzzles in all. Too long I believe, but similarly to the Flow Free types, I wanted to have my statistics show perfect scores, so although you are allowed to jump ahead once you recognize the basic way to solve the puzzle at hand, if you skip, you miss that star. I don’t think I will be as obsessed with this as I am with Flow Free on which I have just passed a full year of its Daily Streak puzzles.