Super Puzzle Pack
Genre: Compilation / Puzzle
Players: 1-2 Competitive (Local), 2-4 Co-Op (Local)
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Review:
(Note: Multiple games in this bundle are included in other bundles. Gems of Magic: Lost Family is also in the Gems of Magic: Double Pack bundle, along with Gems of Magic: Dwarf’s Destiny. Gems of Magic: Lost Family and Match Three: Pirates! Heir to Davy Jones are both included in Match 3 Adventure Collection. And Candy 2048 Challenge and Yum Yum Line are both included in Endless Puzzle Fun Collection.)
Super Puzzle Pack, released on Nintendo Switch in 2020, is a Compilation containing five family-friendly Puzzle games.
I have separately reviewed these games. Here is what I thought of all of the games in this collection:
| Game | Genre | # of Players | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candy 2048 Challenge | Puzzle | 1-2 Competitive (Local) | D |
tl;drCandy 2048 Challenge is a Puzzle game that takes the well-worn 2048 puzzle, adds a candy theme, and… not much else. This is an absurdly bare-bones take on this well-established game formula, and absurdly overpriced too. Do not get this. | |||
| Gems of Magic: Lost Family | Match-3 Puzzle | 1 | C- |
tl;drGems of Magic: Lost Family is a family-friendly Match-3 Puzzle game that’s basically an uninspired knockoff of Bejeweled, lacking in any interesting features or gameplay elements. As such, there’s no reason to play this over countless better takes on this exact same gameplay formula on Nintendo Switch. | |||
| Jigsaw Fun: Piece It Together! | Puzzle | 1-4 Co-Op (Local) | D+ |
tl;drJigsaw Fun: Piece It Together! is a Jigsaw Puzzle game with plenty of nice-looking puzzles to work on, but it is utterly destroyed by terrible menu controls as well as terrible cursor controls that split the difference between playing using traditional gamepad controls and the touchscreen, resulting in neither of those working all that well. Play a different Jigsaw Puzzle game instead. | |||
| Match Three: Pirates! Heir to Davy Jones | Match-3 Puzzle | 1 | C+ |
tl;drMatch Three: Pirates! Heir to Davy Jones is a family-friendly Match-3 Puzzle game that’s basically a knockoff of Bejeweled. The piratey theme and reasonably varied levels keep things interesting enough here, but not enough to project it above countless better takes on this exact same gameplay formula on Nintendo Switch. | |||
| Yum Yum Line | Puzzle | 1-2 Competitive (Local) | C |
tl;drYum Yum Line is a family-friendly Puzzle game where players move colored tiles to try to make rows or columns of at least 5, trying to clear as many as they can before the game board gets clogged up. It’s an okay time-waster, but it’s too shallow and random to be anything more than that, and it’s overpriced too. It’s not horrible, but Nintendo Switch owners have numerous better options. | |||
In short, with the exception of Yum Yum Line, every last one of these games is a fairly uninspired take on another game that already exists, and Yum Yum Line isn’t especially great either. The best of these is probably Match Three: Pirates!, which at least has a fun, coherent theme and a decent amount of variety, but then you have games like the clunky, featureless Candy 2048 Challenge and the pretty miserable Jigsaw Fun to balance that out, with the overall quality of the games in this collection being pretty mediocre.
Compared to the individual prices of these games, I suppose the $30 price tag seems pretty decent, but given how much this bundle is filled with knockoffs and low-effort games, it’s hard to see the value here. And yeah, this bundle regularly goes on sale for $6-$7, but even then I feel like you might get more bang for your buck elsewhere.
Should you get Super Puzzle Pack? I suppose if you’re looking for a bunch of passable but low-effort Puzzle games you may find it sufficient, but not at full price, and even on sale you shouldn’t expect much from this Puzzle package.
tl;dr – Super Puzzle Pack is a Compilation of five family-friendly Puzzle games: Candy 2048 Challenge, Gems of Magic: Lost Family, Jigsaw Fun: Piece It Together!, Match Three: Pirates! Heir to Davy Jones, and Yum Yum Line. Most of these are uninspired knockoffs of well-worn Puzzle game types, and there’s little here to justify this package’s price, even when on sale. This isn’t the worst collection of Puzzle games, but you can do better on Nintendo Switch.
Grade: C-
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