{"id":22374,"date":"2022-07-13T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22374"},"modified":"2022-06-18T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T11:46:58","slug":"color-surge-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/13\/color-surge-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Surge (Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/color_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/COLOR_BOX-150x75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/COLOR_BOX-150x75.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/COLOR_BOX.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In this falling block match three puzzle game for iOS and Android (reviewed on iPad here), you must guide colored circles in columns and switch their colors so they match three when they hit the bottom.\u00a0 If you can match colors, they\u2019ll disappear.\u00a0 If this sounds exactly like Columns, you\u2019re right!\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised SEGA hasn\u2019t released that one on mobile.\u00a0 Or maybe they have and I don\u2019t know it.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to keep up with all those mobile releases.\u00a0 Anyway, Color Surge is free to play, but you can buy more modes once you download it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the base game plays exactly like Columns.\u00a0 If you can make chain reactions, you\u2019ll get a higher score.\u00a0 The game is over when your pieces reach the top of the well.\u00a0 You control the pieces with virtual buttons on the bottom screen. You can move them left or right, rotate colors, and send them down quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The in-game shop lets you buy other modes and remove ads.\u00a0 I got a code that removed the ads, but I couldn\u2019t figure out how to unlock the other modes.\u00a0 There\u2019s one where the blocks are arranged in a hex pattern, and a similar one but they add gravity so the pieces fall.\u00a0 I imagine it\u2019s like that one puzzle game in Clubhouse Games on the Switch. \u00a0About the only problem I could find with this game is that they don\u2019t give you a lot of time to switch colors once the pieces hit the bottom and the next piece comes on top.\u00a0 But if you like Columns, you may want to check this one out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/color_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/COLOR_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/COLOR_SCREEN.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/COLOR_SCREEN-139x300.jpg 139w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/COLOR_SCREEN-69x150.jpg 69w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Parental supervision is recommended for the ads and in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this falling block match three puzzle game for iOS and Android (reviewed on iPad here), you must guide colored circles in columns and switch their colors so they match three when they hit the bottom.\u00a0 If you can match colors, they\u2019ll disappear.\u00a0 If this sounds exactly like Columns, you\u2019re right!\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised SEGA hasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22375,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374\/revisions\/22375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}