Drop Pop

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Drop Pop is a Puzzle game released on Nintendo Switch in 2026. In this game, players drop balls of varying size and color into a cube-shaped container, aiming to get to balls of the same size and color to touch, at which point they combine into a ball the next size up. If this sounds familiar to you, it should – this is basically a 3D take on Suika Game.

The presentation here is simple, but not bad. You’re just looking at various multicolored spheres with smiley faces on them, backed by upbeat music. There’s nothing here that is in any way memorable or impressive, but nothing bad, either.

For the gameplay, if you’re familiar at all with Suika Game, this will seem very familiar. Drop balls, try to get them to hit other balls of the same color, and keep going until you overflow the container. You can move the position you’re dropping the ball anywhere over the container, and change your camera angle with the right analog stick.

In this game, you don’t lose when you go over the top, but when a ball pops out and hits the ground outside the container. This creates a bit of a problem, as sometimes when you combine balls, the motion causes a sudden jolt that tosses balls up into the air. It makes for the feeling that your loss is unearned when you’re basically doing exactly what you’re supposed to, matching like-colored balls, only to be punished for it.

Apart from this complaint, Drop Pop is pretty much just Suika Game with a third dimension, which doesn’t really change it too much, other than making the ball movement even more unpredictable. Personally, I’d rather just play Suika Game, but even if you prefer 3D games, I think you’ll find the third dimension doesn’t add enough to the gameplay to make this all that compelling. It’s not a bad Puzzle game, but at best it’s a time-waster.

tl;dr – Drop Pop is a Puzzle game that has you dropping balls into a cube trying to combine balls of like color and size. Basically, this is 3D Suika Game, and while it’s not terrible, the third dimension doesn’t really add anything here other than more unpredictability and frustratingly unearned losses. This is an okay time-waster, but not much more than that.

Grade: C

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