Sudoku Challenge! is a WiiWare

WiiWare

WiiWare is a service that allows Wii users to download games and applications specifically designed and developed for the Wii video game console made by Nintendo. These games and applications can only be purchased and downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel under the WiiWare section...

 sudoku

Sudoku

is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9...

 game developed by Digital Leisure

Digital Leisure

Digital Leisure, Inc. is a Canadian publisher of software. The company formed in 1997 with the vision to acquire, remaster, and publish numerous classic video-based arcade games such as Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp and Space Ace. These three games were among the first to use...

. The game was released in North America on November 24, 2008 and in the PAL region on December 19, 2008 and costs 500 Wii Points. The DSiWare version has been released in North America on November 30, 2009 and in the PAL region on May 14, 2010.

The game includes three difficulty levels, Original and Grand Sudoku game modes (where the player has to complete five intersecting Sudoku boards at the same time), and over 100,000,000 sudoku puzzles.

Reception

WiiWare World gave the game 6 out of 10, believing Sudoku Challenge to be an acceptable puzzler but with still room for improvement. Commenting that the presentation was functional and that most players will be satisfied with what was on offer, with the sudoku puzzles varying in difficulty to challenge players of all skill levels, they were also impressed with the number of puzzles included and claimed that, at 10 minutes a puzzle, it would take a player at least 1900 years to complete all the puzzles included on the game.