Block Bloom is a colorful puzzle-shooter about smart timing and sharper planning. A conveyor belt carries a stream of colored blocks across the board. Below it sits your grid of shooters — each one loaded with a color and a limited number of shots. Tap a shooter to send it into a firing slot, and it will automatically blast every matching block that rolls past. The catch: you only have a handful of slots. Send in the wrong shooter and it sits there, clogging a slot with nothing to shoot. Fill every slot with dead weight and the board jams — game over. Clear the whole conveyor and the level is yours.

Editor's Take

By the Pogglo editors

A puzzle-shooter where the real puzzle is your slots — load the wrong color and you jam your own board into a game over.

The setup in Block Bloom looks gentle and plays anything but. A conveyor belt streams colored blocks across the top of the board; below sits your grid of shooters, each loaded with a color and a fixed number of shots. Tap one and it slides into a firing slot, then automatically blasts every matching block that rolls past. Clear the whole belt and the level is yours.

The trap is the slots, and they turn this into a real thinking puzzle rather than a reflex test. You only get a handful, and a shooter whose color isn't on the belt just squats there doing nothing. Fill every slot with dead weight and the board jams — that's your game over, self-inflicted. So the challenge isn't aiming, it's reading the belt and spending your slots and ammo on the right colors at the right moment. Shooters only become tappable when nothing's blocking them, which adds one more wrinkle to the order you commit to.

It plays with touch or mouse on either device, no download needed to jump in. If a color-matching puzzle-shooter that punishes sloppy planning sounds like your thing, there are more puzzle games to dig into.

Watch the conveyor. Colored blocks ride the belt across the top of the board. Tap a shooter in the grid below. A shooter is only tappable when nothing is blocking it. It slides into a free slot and starts firing automatically at every block on the belt that matches its color. Mind your shot counter. Each shooter has limited ammo. When it runs dry, it disappears and frees its slot. Keep your slots healthy. Slots are limited — a shooter whose color isn't on the belt just sits there taking up space. Clear every block on the conveyor to win the level.

Supported devices: Desktop, mobile and tablet