Suika Game, one of the best-selling Switch games (topping heavy hitters like Minecraft or Link’s Awakening), is coming to Steam soon. So consider this a warning: Your free time and backlog are now in grave danger.
Also known as Watermelon Game, Aladdin X’s hit puzzle game launched in late 2021, in Japan, before hitting international territories in 2023, and spreading to Android and iOS devices later. By April 2024, according to Chinese site GNN, the £2.69 game had been downloaded “over 7.4 times worldwide” on Nintendo’s system. And wherever there’s success, there are of course knockoffs.
Since its original release, Suika Game has received a multiplayer DLC – on top of the online leaderboards present at launch – and cosmetic content. A follow-up instalment with a gameplay twist – called Suika Game Planet – was released in 2025.
The Steam page for Suika Game recently appeared and contains a few key details although no release date. Controller support is confirmed, achievements are in, and so is the family sharing feature. At the time of writing, multiplayer isn’t mentioned, so it’s probable that Steam will be getting the base game and DLC separately, as with other platforms.
Suika Game is all about plopping down fruits inside a box without letting them reach its upper limit. Think of Tetris but with round – and delicious – objects that are affected by physics. To ‘clear’ them, two pieces of the same fruit have to come into contact and evolve into a bigger fruit, with the watermelon sitting at the top of the food chain. You can imagine how stacking bigger fruits quickly becomes a problem, especially when the physics go wild and catapult smaller fruits over the box limit, or when the big fruits prevent the others from evolving.
The important thing you should know is Suika Game is only three euros on the European eShop and quickly became one of my most-played Switch games because of its one-more-round factor. It’s particularly appreciated when too tired to play anything complex. My backlog hated that, and if you jump into the Steam port whenever it arrives, yours probably will too.
