Sudoku meets Bejeweled with 5BY5

If you have already heard of Isotope 244 then you probably know they are pretty geared towards the action and strategy genre.

then you probably know they are pretty geared towards the action and strategy genre. Well, until now. The developers from Florida have switched things up a little bit with 5BY5, a puzzler for iOS released on February 27.

5BY5 acts as a sort of lovechild between Bejeweled and a Sudoku book. The aim of the game is to switch tiles around in order to match color groups that add up to five. The game gives you only 55 moves so make sure you calculate each of your actions carefully. If this doesn’t furrow your eyebrows enough then the game offers some extra game modes such as time trials. On top of that, gamers can also enjoy player-vs-player action with ‘MULTI’ mode where you will go head to head via the Gamer Center or in the ‘PASS’  mode, which acts as a local multiplayer.

This marriage of different games requires some significant brain power to truly master but if you are casually picking it up, the game teaches you its fundamentals well, quickly allowing some simple pick up and play action. The basic game is available for free, and gives you the classic game mode alongside the multiplayer, though the game offers some premium upgrade options such as more hints and undo’s as well as some aesthetic themes if you’re willing to pay for it.

You can pick up 5BY5 now for iOS on the Appstore.