Star Battle Puzzle | Hoshi

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.6
625 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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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
29 Mar 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
601 reviews
Kairi Larson
2 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
2 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) 🥲
Jacob Zimmerman
3 March 2025
Great features in a Star Battle game (swipe to place many dots, auto-fill dots around stars, and several highlighting colors), and it limits my play time well, though the ad-based recharge is a little annoying. I get it; they need to make money somehow, and it's way fewer ads than most games. Doesn't mean I can't take a star off.
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Katie Martin
28 March 2025
The game itself is fun and I like that there is a new puzzle released daily. However, many puzzles have multiple solutions but it only accepts one as correct, which makes for a frustrating user experience. It would also benefit from a "hint" button and fewer or shorter ads.
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Guriddo
28 March 2025
Hi Katie, thanks for your feedback! 😊 Every puzzle is checked by a super smart algorithm before release to ensure it has a unique solution. If a solution isn’t accepted, there’s usually a small mistake somewhere—feel free to send me a screenshot! I appreciate your thoughts on hints and ads too, and I’ll keep them in mind for future updates. 💙

What's new

📦 New packs added 🥳