Suika Game is free for the next week on Nintendo Switch Online

polygon.com:

More than 4 million people have downloaded Suika Game on Nintendo Switch — the only place it’s available — since it was released in 2021. It gained massive popularity when it was released in the United States in October. Now, it’s available for a free trial period from Dec. 14 to Dec. 20 for no extra cost to Nintendo Switch Online members. It’s part of Nintendo’s Game Trials program, accessible with a Nintendo Switch Online membership.

Suika Game (also known as Watermelon Game) is a fruit drop game that’s a mix of Tetris and 2048, where you strategically drop fruit. Two of the same fruit will change into a different fruit, up a chain that I think ends at a watermelon — all contained in a tall, narrow box. For example, if you drop two cherries that touch, they become one strawberry. Add a strawberry to that and it becomes a grape. Two grapes become an orange, and two oranges become an apple… and so on, until you get to the watermelon.

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members! You can now download and try the full Suika Game at no additional cost until 12/20 11:59pm PT.

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Suika Game is easy to understand, but awfully hard. I’ve played more than 40 hours of the game since I first downloaded it, and I haven’t been able to breach 2,600 points. My partner got over 3,000 once, and I haven’t forgiven him. I’ve glanced at the worldwide leaderboards for Suika Game and I’m stunned by what I see — high scores in the tens of thousands. I don’t understand how it’s possible.

One of the reasons Suika Game is so hard is because of its physics. Fruits bounce off each other, creating scenarios you can’t