Blow It Up

Genre: Arcade

Players: 1

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Review:

Blow It Up is a family-friendly physics-based Arcade-style game released in 2025 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. In this game, players fling anthropomorphic bombs at structures with alien invaders on them, looking to take out the invaders and… okay, I’ll just cut to the chase, this is very clearly copying the Angry Birds formula. If you’ve ever played one of those games, you know what to expect here. However, as I’ve often said, it’s okay for a game to be a copycat as long as it’s a good copycat, so that leads us to the question, is Blow It Up a good copycat?

The presentation in this game uses “voxel”-style 3D visuals, with everything constructed from boxes. While on its face not extremely impressive, it does make for some pretty impressive destruction when you blast a structure and it falls apart, crumbling into pieces. This presentation does occasionally cause the framerates to take a hit though, albeit not where you might expect. These framerate drops are most frequent on the game’s map screens, which largely just have you walking around a blocky map between levels. As such, this doesn’t really cause a problem with the gameplay, though it is certainly noticeable.

These visuals are backed by whimsical music that reminds me a lot of mobile games, with the overworld map theme being a take on Pop Goes the Weasel. While I found this to be largely unimpressive, I admit I was amused by the high-pitched screams of the aliens as you blast them.

As for the gameplay, this is actually a pretty good take on the Angry Birds formula, with each of the bomb types that you gradually get to use having different abilities activated mid-flight, with players having to choose between them based on what seems like it would work best for the current challenge, and with new levels adding additional challenges. This game is missing touchscreen controls, which is a bit disappointing, but the standard gamepad controls work just fine. And while I don’t think anything here drastically changes the core formula, I think this is a good take on it.

So in the end, Blow It Up is actually a pretty good Angry Birds-style Arcade game, with fun destruction physics and solid gameplay. It’s not very original, but what it does it does well. At only $5, I think fans of Angry Birds or those looking for a simple but fun physics-based game with a strong destruction element will probably find this worth checking out.

tl;dr – Blow It Up is a family-friendly Arcade-style game that is clearly patterned after Angry Birds, but it does a good job with that formula, with plenty of voxel-based destruction to keep things visually-interesting. At only $5, I think this is absolutely worth picking up for fans of Angry Birds, or just players who crave a fun and lighthearted destruction-focused Arcade-style game.

Grade: B-

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