Challenging but fun strategy game – Swapperoo Review

And I should say, highly addictive. I got this game free via my Starbucks app, but I would happily pay for this game…..at first glance it looks quite simple, but after the first few ‘tutorial’ rounds it gets challenging. The instructions give you enough to go on to learn how to play, but I’d like to see somewhere I can learn more - for example, by matching (enough) tiles you earn extra tools you can use to swap tiles you wouldn’t ordinarily be able to swap, or delay the bomb timers, or clear the board if you get into deep trouble, but there’s no indication of exactly how many tiles you have to match to earn those - they just seem to pop in now and then. So "yay!” I love seeing them, but I have no clue how I earned them. Some reviewers have given this a low number of stars because they found it too challenging - one even claims it’s ‘impossible’ to clear some levels. I don’t find that to be true - yes it’s challenging and makes you think, but you can retry each level as many times as you like until you figure out how to clear it…..and I’m on the third screen of levels (beyond the ‘hard’ levels and into the one the game developer calls ‘challenges’) and haven’t found one yet that I haven’t been able to clear, albeit some with a lot of retries! What’s really great is that there is a lot of variety in each of the levels…..so yes it’s a tile-matching game, but it never gets boring. Also, the music is quite nice but I’m glad to see the option to turn it off without having to turn off the phone’s ringer switch, that’s a thoughtful touch I sometimes see lacking in other games.
Review by TechKitten on Swapperoo.