Suika Game (スイカゲーム, literally "Watermelon Game") is a Puzzle Game developed and published by Aladdin X, originally released in Japan in December 9, 2021 on the Nintendo Switch.
The game has you drop various kinds of fruit into a box, and making two of the same fruit touch makes them turn into a different fruit, gradually increasing in size. The biggest fruit, and the game's namesake, is the watermelon (suika in Japanese). If the box overflows, it's game over! And that's pretty much all there is to it.
Suika Game started out as a built-in game for the popIn Aladdin digital projector, and the popularity of the game among the projector's customers led the company to make a version for the Switch eShop. The Switch version originally got little attention, until it suddenly got a huge popularity burst after being played by streamers, including from non-Japanese players buying it from the Japanese eShop — which made the company release it for eShops outside of Japan on October 20th, 2023. While at first only playable in Japanese, the game got translations in English, Korean and Chinese a few days later.
Suika Game contains examples of:
- Christmas Episode: The game has a Christmas-themed alternate skin, with a Christmas-themed background, the watermelon decorated with Christmas ornaments and snow, the cloud wearing a Santa hat, and the background music being an instrumental of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas".
- Falling Blocks: Falling fruits that turn into other fruit when two of the same fruit are combined.
- Halloween Episode: The game had a temporary Halloween-themed alternate skin, set in a spooky forest with a purple and orange color scheme, and replacing the watermelons with pumpkins.
- Unintentionally Unwinnable: When two of the same fruit combine, they push away adjacent fruit to make space. Occasionally, this can cause a small fruit to get launched out of the box and end the game before it's even near full.
- Untranslated Title: Even after getting an English translation, the game kept its original Japanese title of Suika Game.
- Wreaking Havok: Physics is a big part of the gameplay, as the round fruits will roll around and bounce off each other.
