Pen Arcade — Vector Visionary Studio

Write, don't tap

Pen Arcade is built around the stylus. Write numbers directly into cells with your pen — the built-in handwriting recognizer was tuned stroke-by-stroke for real pen input, including multi-stroke digits. Prefer tapping? A digit pad is always one tap away.

Sixteen ways to think

Number games: Sudoku, Killer Sudoku, Arrow Sudoku, Kakuro, Binairo, Hitori
Grid logic: Nonogram, Slitherlink, Nurikabe, Bridges, Numberlink, Star Battle
Plus Minesweeper, fresh daily puzzles, and seasonal theme puzzles
In beta (opt in from Settings): Maze, Connect the Dots, Variant Sudoku

Screenshots

Pen Arcade — Arrow Sudoku mid-game on an e-ink tablet — Arrow Sudoku, mid-game

Pen Arcade home screen — the arcade shelf of puzzle types — The arcade shelf

Pen Arcade — Kakuro on an e-ink tablet — Kakuro

Made for e-ink

High-contrast black-and-white graphics, no battery-draining animation, and an interface designed for Boox-style e-readers — not shrunk-down phone UI. Hover previews, gesture shortcuts, and a vocabulary of tap, drag, and pen that stays consistent across every game.

Pen Arcade is a native Android app, currently in public beta. Version 0.4 is out now — rebuilt hints that escalate from a nudge to the full reasoning, seasonal theme puzzles, and sixteen puzzle types in all.