Blipz

Genre: Match-3 Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Blipz is a family-friendly Match-3 Puzzle game released on PC and Nintendo Switch in 2022. In this game, players move a cursor through a grid, leaving colored markers (the titular “blipz”) along the way, with the goal being to match three or more markers at a time to clear the blocks and keep going as long as possible.

This makes for some fairly unique gameplay, but unfortunately it’s hard to effectively plot out your route in a way that you’re intelligently clearing more blipz than you put down, and it’s especially frustrating that you have no ability to save a blip for later use when you really need it. This lack of agency really limits this game’s potential, resulting in games that seem to always end when everything piles up and you don’t feel like you have any real ability to clear the mess you’ve made.

The presentation here makes use of simple pixel art visuals against a black background, which works well enough but isn’t especially memorable or impressive. The music, at the very least, is pretty good, with this game using some nice synthesized sounds to make for a chill atmosphere that works well for the game.

In the end, I feel like Blips had a good core concept for its gameplay, but failed to build on that concept in a way that made for a truly compelling experience. As Puzzle games go, it’s not bad, but it’s not an especially great game either. If you can catch it on sale, you may find it to be a decent time-waster, but otherwise you’re better off sticking to better entries in the genre on Nintendo Switch.

tl;dr – Blipz is a family-friendly Match-3 Puzzle game where players move through a grid leaving colored markers, with three or more contiguous markers clearing themselves. The core gameplay here has some good ideas, but this game unfortunately doesn’t build on those ideas, resulting in a mediocre game that may pass as a decent time-waster, but not much more than that.

Grade: C

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