Vivid games (no relations to the porn company also named Vivid) is the Polish developer behind Boozle. At first I was sort of skeptical of the message a game like this might send. It is certainly not for children. In Boozle you must balance your match-3 tactics between food and drink in order to party longer and not puke. Gross, but interesting.

The grid fills with various drinks and junk food and you’re obviously out to score as many points as you can. That means keeping the Puke-o-meter (my term) balanced and bouncing between matches. What this basically means is that if you set off a chain reaction you run the risk of ending your game. Strange considering that’s usually the point of most match-three titles. In essence, the game is working against you at all times. You can only line things up in a straight line of three or more of the same. There is no simply grouping things together. On top of that you might have to make a choice to match something you don’t want to in hopes of getting more of something you need.

The fact that the game is sort of working against you makes the games much shorter than you might normally imagine and with only one game mode there’s no other way to play it (could have used a free or timed mode). Often a chain reaction will continue to the point of ending your game as you watch helplessly. It seems sort of a silly waste of time at that point.

That’s not to say the game is bad because it’s not. But in a very crowded market of match-three titles, there’s little to make this one stand out from the crowd. Yes the theme is lighthearted and the game is generally fun but when you hit that first chain reaction that ends the game you might just vomit a string of profanities yourself.

Match three fans will certainly want to check it out just because of the slightly different game mechanics. But definitely try before you buy if you can on this one because it might just make you go on a bender afterward.