Kakuro overview

Overview

Kakuro comes from Metaheuristic and is published by Metaheuristic. It arrived on Steam on Sep 15, 2023, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Includes level editor, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Kakuro's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 23 September 2026 - 17:23:07 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 100% positive across 1 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Kakuro is available in 25 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Kakuro has sold up to 30 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $48. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Kakuro overview details

Kakuro combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

General information. Kakuro or Kakkuro (Japanese: カックロ) is a kind of logic puzzle that is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword. Kakuro puzzles are regular features in many math-and-logic puzzle publications across the world. In 1966, Canadian Jacob E. Funk, an employee of Dell Magazines, came up with the original English name Cross Sums and other names such as Cross Addition have also been used, but the Japanese name Kakuro, abbreviation of Japanese kasan kurosu (加算クロス, addition cross), seems to have gained general acceptance and the puzzles appear to be titled this way now in most publications. The popularity of Kakuro in Japan is immense, second only to Sudoku among Nikoli's famed logic-puzzle offerings. The canonical Kakuro puzzle is played in a grid of filled and barred cells, "black" and "white" respectively. Puzzles are usually 16×16 in size, although these dimensions can vary widely. Apart from the top row and leftmost column which are entirely black, the grid is divided into "entries"—lines of white cells—by the black cells. The black cells contain a diagonal slash from upper-left to lower-right and a number in one or both halves, such that each horizontal entry has a number in the black half-cell to its immediate left and each vertical entry has a number in the black half-cell immediately above it. These numbers, borrowing crossword terminology, are commonly called "clues". The objective of the puzzle is to insert a digit from 1 to 9 inclusive into each white cell such that the sum of the numbers in each entry matches the clue assoc…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Kakuro is listed as a game with $1.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Includes level editor, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Casual. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 23 September 2026 - 17:23:07 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 100% positive reviews.

Overview tags

CasualPuzzleLogicMinimalistSingleplayer

Support and legal notes

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