Suika Game is the new example of a game released for months and which is breaking through today. Its asset? It’s cute and colorful, and above all very addictive. It’s a mix between Tetris And 2048.
It’s not a fruit juice, but a fruit game. If you’ve been hanging around Twitch lately, maybe you’ve come across channels streaming the game Suika Game. This is a puzzle game with cute graphics, where you drop fruits to increase your score. Available since December 2021 in Japan, the game is building a great success since its release around the world, almost two years later.
As video game journalist Oscar Lemaire notes, in a tweet published on November 8sales of Suika Game have experienced a notable acceleration in recent days. Proof that word of mouth has worked for this Nintendo Switch exclusive sold for €2.99 and developed by Aladdin X. Don’t have the Nintendo console? There are many clones, like this web version accessible free of charge.
How Suika Game will make you procrastinate
Suika Game is a clever mix between Tetris And 2048, two other games with high addictive potential. Fruits are stacked there, which can be compared to balloons in physical behavior, with the aim of merging them until you obtain a watermelon (hence the nickname “Watermelon game”). Originally, Aladdin Suika Game as an app for popIn brand spotlights. Its popularity made the company want to develop a separate game, available on the Nintendo Switch eShop.
If Suika Game is so popular because it is based on simple gameplay. The only difficulty? Do not pile up too many fruits or they risk overflowing the grid, meaning a game over.
The merger rules are as follows:
- Two cherries make one strawberry;
- Two strawberries give one grape;
- Two grapes make one tangerine;
- Two tangerines make one orange;
- Two oranges make one apple;
- Two apples make one pear;
- Two pears yield one peach;
- Two peaches make one pineapple;
- Two pineapples make one melon;
- Two melons make one watermelon.
The trick is to drop random fruits correctly, remembering that they tend to roll easily. We quickly understand that the key to success is maximum occupancy of the grid available, avoiding spaces between fruits which have substantially similar shapes (circles, except for strawberries and grapes) and are distinguished above all by their size. (the watermelon takes up a lot of space).
The sudden, but late, success of Suika Game started a few days before its availability elsewhere than in Japan, as highlighted in this Games Radar article published on October 11. As always with this type of phenomenon, which can be compared to Among Us Or Vampire Survivors, everything first came from content creators — including vTubers or big channels like Ado (more than 5.7 million subscribers on YouTube). In October, the game compiled 9.29 million hours of viewing, compared to just under 2 million a month earlier (+412%). In November, Suika Game has already earned in 9 days what he did in the entire month of September.
Of course, we will have to be wary of all the clones that will proliferate in the coming weeks, particularly on smartphones and tablets. In a tweet published on October 2Aladdin Watermelon Game on the App Store. “ Be careful when downloading similar apps », Warns the company, aware that malware can nest there.
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