Star Battle Puzzle | Hoshi

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4,7
642 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
USK: All ages
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About this game

Hoshi (星, Japanese for star) is a free and competitive Star Battle game with daily challenges. Star Battle, also known as Two Not Touch, is regularly published in the New York Times logic puzzle section. If you enjoy playing tricky puzzles and brain-teasing games and seek a new challenge, then you should give Hoshi a try.

If you have never played the Star Battle logic game before, don’t worry the rules are straight forward:
Similar to other logic puzzles you have a grid that you need to fill. In a normal 2 star Two Not Touch game each row, column, and region must have exactly 2 stars. Stars are not allowed to touch, even not diagonally.

Hoshi includes Star Battles with 1-5 stars, but games with more stars are yet to come 😉


Hoshi offers you:
- Everyday we release a new number game (daily puzzle challenge)
- Track your solving time and compete against other players (leaderboards)
- There is also a weekly challenge for geniuses (3 star plus games)
- There are 5 different difficulties (easy to diabolical)
- Packs with hand-selected logic puzzle (e.g. for beginners)
- Guide with solving strategies
- Profile with stats about your skill level & progress

Coming soon:
- Add your friends and play with them a numbers puzzle
- Star Battle games with more than 5 stars
Updated on
13 May 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location and App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4,6
618 reviews
Kairi Larson
02 February 2025
The game is fun and honestly a good challenge. I only gave 3 stars because a lot of it is paid content and pro membership stuff so mostly only the daily and weekly puzzle are free. Edit: I realize that it is not easy to make and run an app, and I understand that you need to get back what you put in. I am not against supporting developers, just unable to. I only wish you could buy packs as a difficulty level set instead of each one individually
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Guriddo
02 February 2025
Hey Kairi, thanks for your feedback. You currently get 365 Dailies + 55 Weeklies + 50 Pack games for free per year. Isn't that quite a lot 😜? I would love to offer everything for free, but as you can imagine, running & developing Hoshi costs me money (and a lot of my free time) 🥲
İmge509
04 October 2024
At first i thought it was a really nice puzzle game. The game is neither too complicated nor easy and the app is easy to navigate. However, then I saw that ALL the other levels except two levels of each pack were paywalled. Every one of them have seperate fees. If i only had to pay once, i'd be fine with that. But in this case, i'd rather not play. Edit: oh. So sorry, i didn't see that :'))) in this case i have no complaints, it's a good game 👍
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Guriddo
04 October 2024
Hey, not sure if you saw it, but if you go for 1-year subscription you get all packs for free 😜
Shae Richards
08 May 2025
Wish I could rate it higher. Beautifully designed and fun once you get the hang of it, but unfortunately the instructions are quite vague which make it difficult. Admittedly I am disabled, but even so that does make it less accessible. There are only 50 puzzles before you have to pay (paying for a subscription is still paying - that doesn't make them free). Since there are only a handful of puzzles in each level that aren't paywalled, the jump in difficulty is pretty significant.
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Guriddo
11 May 2025
Hi Shae, thanks for the thoughtful review! Totally hear you on the learning curve—the guide should give you an introduction to the most important strategies 👍 Just to share: there are actually 365 free Dailies, plus 53 new Weeklies for free each year. Not bad, right? 😊 I really appreciate you giving Hoshi a try and sharing your experience ❤️

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