PillPop - Match 3

This is a good cheep quickie. Simple, clean and to the point. No clicking through endless menus or story bits. If you need 5 minutes or 5 hours this will do.

This game is great! I love that it has Blitz and Survival modes for a fun challenge and Zen modes for when I just want to relax.

P'tit jeu relax, le mode survie est quand même intéressant. Je le recommande si vous aimez le genre ou que vous avez de la misère à dormir :P https://youtu.be/0qMywy_ziK4

评分：5/5 评测：非常有意思的三消游戏，共六个模式，基础玩法是：画面中有4种颜色的药丸/病毒（共8只），当同色的“药丸+病毒”连接超过3只时，点击药丸即可进行消除，相当于用药丸对病毒进行了净化。其中连线内必须有药丸，但不必考虑药丸位置，比如“药丸+病毒+病毒”和“病毒+药丸+病毒”都是可以的，数量也没有要求只要满足“有药丸”和“相邻”即可，还是非常好上手的。游戏中唯一的特殊道具“彩色药丸”效果直接消除是连接周围四个方块的全部线路。游戏的六个模式为“level20-药丸”“2min-药丸”“生存-药丸”“level20-病毒”“2min-病毒”“生存-病毒”，其中level20就是挑战升到20级所需时间，一般单局在20min左右；2min是限时挑战最高分；生存是类似俄罗斯方块会一直往下掉落新病毒，要随加随清尽可能存活更多时间；“病毒”玩法即去掉胶囊只留4种病毒，相邻3只病毒即可消除，更偏向经典三消。另外还可以自选“大中小图”和“456颜色”，可玩性巨高，强烈推荐

PillPop - Match 3 is yet another of literally hundreds of mobile app Match-3/Bejewelled/Candy Crush ripoff games infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one is notable for being considerably worse than all of the others. The difference with this Match-3 revolves around eliminating the bugs by clicking on pills in the grid. Your matching criteria is then the colour of the pills and the bugs (red pills kill red bugs etc). Clicking any pill will remove any and all adjacent pills and bugs of the same colour and their likewise matching adjacent pills and bugs, I guess you get the idea. But this is also really lame because all you end up doing is clicking on pills... incredibly boring stuff. At least some other match-3 games make you swipe or swap gem positions or something... none of that here. So lame. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic "retro" looking 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just point and click stuff like a browser/Flash game. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2025 (and this was released not so far back in 2020), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort shovelware. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 110,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam? PillPop - Match 3 is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]