Puyo Puyo

Synonyms

Puyo; Puyo Pop

Definition

Puyo Puyo is a series of tile-matching, two-player, and real-time puzzle games published by Compile Inc. and Sega Inc.

Introduction

Puyo Puyo is a series of two-player real-time puzzle games published by Compile Inc. from 1991 and Sega Inc. from 2002. Over ten titles have been published for over ten platforms and have been played and studied for a long time especially in Japan.

Puyo Puyo is a kind of tile-matching puzzle game with dropping tiles such as Tetris, Dr. Mario, or Columns. While such games were mainly designed as one-player game, it is important that Puyo Puyo was designed as a two-player game, and many competitions have been held for expert players, like the cases of fighting games or real-time strategy games.

In this entry, core rules, brief gameplay, and some approaches from researchers are described, as detailed rules and characters of each title; history and anecdotage are omitted.

Core Rules

There are many rules in Puyo Puyo series,...