Birds and Blocks

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Birds and Blocks, originally released as Birds ‘N Blocks on iOS in 2011 and brought to the Nintendo Switch in 2020, is a physics-based Puzzle game that presents players with birds sitting atop a stack of blocks and tasks them with tapping the blocks to remove them, with the goal being to get all of the birds safely resting on stone blocks without falling to the ground.

The presentation here is simple, with cartoony visuals and a catchy guitar song as background music. Nothing noteworthy, but it works for a simple time-wasting Puzzle game. I will note there is one frustration here – the alarm sound when you fail a level is really annoying, and ruins the otherwise light and pleasant experience.

As for the gameplay, know that this game is only playable in handheld mode using a touchscreen – the game won’t work in docked mode at all. However, while that limits the game, I can at least say that the touchscreen controls here work fine – you simply touch a block to remove it. Is it fun? Yeah, it’s got a nice, relaxing mobile-style Puzzle game feel to it. As a time-waster, it does its job well, and the $5 price tag seems more or less reasonable for the game’s 80 puzzles.

There’s not too much more to say about Birds and Blocks. It’s not breaking any barriers or doing anything original. It’s a bit limited by its handheld-only design, but what it does, it does well enough, and it should make for a decent time-waster Puzzle game if you’re looking to kill a few minutes.

tl;dr – Birds and Blocks is a physics-based Puzzle game that’s not going to win any points for originality or presentation, but its gameplay is decent and it makes for a nice time-waster, so long as you keep in mind that the game only works in handheld mode using the touchscreen.

Grade: C+

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