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.

A dozen ways to think

Number games: Sudoku, Killer Sudoku, Arrow Sudoku, Kakuro, Binairo, Hitori
Grid logic: Nonogram, Slitherlink, Nurikabe, Bridges, Flow
Plus Minesweeper, hand-drawn mazes, and fresh daily puzzles

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

Pulled from the itch.io page — refreshed with each release.

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.

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