Blast your way through space in this innovative 3D bubble puzzler! Bounce, bobble, swing, and explode bubbles across the universe. Intergalactic Bubbles advances the classic match-3 genre into the 21st century with stellar graphics, 3D action, and upgrades.
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Mostly Positive (27 reviews) - 74% of the 27 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.
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Very Positive (525 reviews) - 82% of the 525 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date: 29 May, 2015

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About This Game

Blast your way through space in this innovative 3D bubble puzzler! Bounce, bobble, swing, and explode bubbles across the universe. Intergalactic Bubbles advances the classic match-3 genre into the 21st century with stellar graphics, 3D action, and upgrades.

"It's a great game!" - James Bartholomeou, Initiative Check

  • Sectors full of levels provide hours of bubble blasting challenges.
  • Upgrade your abilities to enhance your play style.
  • Use power bubbles alone or combine them to unleash devastation!

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    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7
    • Processor: 1 Ghz
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Storage: 100 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard
    • Processor: 1 Ghz
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Storage: 125 MB available space
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    • OS: Any
    • Processor: 1 Ghz
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Storage: 125 MB available space
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kumori
( 31.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 29 July
As a first impression you cannot help to compare this with bust-a-move, and you'll probably only see the bad points:
* A total lack of asthetics. (Biggest problem with this game.)
* Poor graphics and sound.
* Some buggy physics

Then after a few hours you perhaps get into it. (If you are exhausted enough, or relaxed enough, or high enough I suppose.) And you'll find that the ball physics brings some pretty interesting mechanics. Such as strings of bubbles swinging around, tension and weight of bubbles-branches, and snipping a few bubbles here or there might snap away a branch of bubbles in another direction. It's rather subtle but interesting. Sadly it's all the game has to offer.

If you add a few dozen more hours you'll find that:

*All the levels are identical, with a gradial ramp up in bubbles per level, falldown speed and number of colours. (It never gets very difficult)
* The stars progression and talents are all very bland. There are a few situational elements to the skills but really nothing to write home about.
* The game is far too long for the content it has to offer.

It's not a horrible game, but it needs at least a month or so of polish before it can pass the barrier from non-recommend to reccomend. Maybe something like arkaniod-style levels (where each level has a designed layout) to not make 30 hours of gameplay seem like the same 5 minutes repeated over and over again could be an idea..

It took me 30 ish hours to get 100% achievments, and if I weren't such a sucker for achievements it would never have lasted that long. This is a $1 or $2 game for people listening to audiobooks while playing or are on mind numbing meds and can't think.
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Shoyu
( 0.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 25 July
Honestly such a fun game :)
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Yusheeyush
( 0.4 hrs on record )
Posted: 19 July
Product received for free
Decent variant of the generic Puzzle Bobble game design, no complaints or anything. Could be a bit more pretty and less default grayish silver and stuff and it would be nice to have more music but it's still decent. If it's your thing and isn't too expensive. Definitely worth the free I paid for it.
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ツ Alexander Hamilton ツ
( 0.9 hrs on record )
Posted: 12 July
I like it for what it is, got it in the" buy these 18 games you would never waste you money on individually" pack during the summer sale. Never listened to music always used own tunes, gamplay is pretty basic besides the somtiems buggy physics.

Overall pretty meh, but if you have leftover money from opening csgo cases why not.
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Porygon
( 0.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 11 July
Intergalactic Bubbles is a bubblepopper

+It's main virture are physics. Floppy bubbles make for great plays, and being able to shot something falling down is nice addition
+It's talent tree, while simple, is nice. Skills are quite balanced, each serving different niche (though rocket is a little better than others IMO) , and they combine later in the game
+It's quite fun
+It's cheap

Bubble breaking sounds, while good, could be better. They might be annoying for some. Neutral

-Underscores IN EVERYTHING, from the menu to talent tree to how to play to each single thing other than playing are so obnoxious. Also, talents aren't described, which isn't good, especially if i were to show this game to a ~5years old
-Music is VERY repetitive, and it's VERY bad.
-Randomness of levels is annoying, it shouldn't be that way.
-More colors should appear earlier.
-For game with such a nice talent tree, collectible powerup bubbles would be nice addition (and are quite common in other "space" bubblepopper games)

Don't get me wrong, it's nice game, especially on few first levels. Physics are really funny. But the game shows laziness on almost every step. I wonder how it isn't beta. And developer isn't making any patches. I wouldn't recommend to buy it, but if you get it it isn't THAT bad

4/10
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tracy.poff
( 2.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 10 July
This is a Puzzle Bobble clone with the addition of basic physics and an upgrade system. Both are neat ideas, but the game needs more polish. As it is, there are better options for this kind of game.
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♫TGC> The Games Collector
( 1.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 July
This game is so bad, it ruined my mood.

The physics effect might be a nice thing. But everything lacks in the sound and visuals department. This stuff just looks barren, and the sound/music is painful.

Recommended to spend that 1 buck on something else, anything else.
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Legit Doge
( 0.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 July
First Impression..
This game is Bust A Move : Intergalactic Version.
Perhaps this game can have versus mode in the advance. It will be fun!
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GaanDjin
( 2.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 July
Not as polished as it could be but for a bubble shooter I quite like it. And I like the 'wobbly' physics. Adds a bit of character to the game rather than just a standard grid. It's got your match 3 with some power ups and a skill tree. Great time killer.

I approve :-)
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CyberII
( 11.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 July
I won't say anything new about 'Bubbles', since they were around longer than the majority of gamers nowadays. Time-killing, casual, and the bouncy-sticky features add something fresh to the classic game.
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Most Helpful Reviews  In the past 30 days
1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
0.5 hrs on record
Posted: 25 July
Honestly such a fun game :)
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44 of 44 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
5.6 hrs on record
Posted: 20 February
A simple puzzle bobble clone without the look or charm of the originals but it will do in a pinch if you want to burst some bubbles for a quarter.

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19 of 21 people (90%) found this review helpful
Recommended
4.7 hrs on record
Posted: 28 November, 2015
Intergalactic Bubbles is inspired by a game I don't remember the name but I can still see the cursor, the dinosaur and the bubble being sent. It's not Bubble Bobble though I think there was an arcade version with a different gameplay. Anyway, I've known this game under different names, the last one being on a giveaway game where the minigame is called Blink Shooter and is my favorite.

The goal is to send colored balls on others of the same color to explode them and make sure that the board is cleaned before they're descending and touch your line. By doing so, you can also get rid of balls under them if they're not attached to another one that will support everything. Here, you have also the balls moving naturally, like if there was gravity and can also tied themselves to others and if they're the same color, you'll have another explosion that will probably help you to reach your goal.

Intergalactic Bubbles is challenging because if you want to upgrade bonuses, you need to collect a sort of stars (that look more like a planet on fire anyway). Each level completed will give you one but if you do it less than the number if balls sent that will be displayed, you'll collect 3 or 2 stars.

The game is kinda long if you're aiming like me to a 3 stars. The more you advance, more balls will be on the board or a new color is added.

While the graphics aren't spectacular and really simple, the soundtrack is correct.

I suppose that some people will be deceived by the lack of features, but it's enough for me. I find the game a little too slow, mainly in the speed at which the board is descending.

If you love that kind of games, you can go for it, it's a nice disctraction.

Edit: Apparently, the game was Bust-A-Move. The name itself is clicking in my head though I can't be sure if I was that.
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15 of 17 people (88%) found this review helpful
3 people found this review funny
Recommended
9.5 hrs on record
Posted: 10 June, 2015
Fun ball shooter.

I played a lot of this on Desura, so my Steam time is misleading.

This is a ball shooter game with a twist. There's phyiscs that affects how the balls move. Sometimes that ends up in your favor as a dangling trail of balls will swing back and forth and might attach to others which will activate them and make them explode. Other times the physics is a hindrance when a dangling trail swings by at the wrong moment and grabs the ball you intended to go elsewhere.

There's an upgrade tree that you spend points on. Get points by finishing a level in under a certain amount of balls spent. You can replay levels any time as much as you want.

3 Bonuses: Wild, Bomb, and Rocket. Each time you make a match it starts to power up your bonus meter. Once it is full you can choose a bonus to use.

This is a slower paced ball shooter than others I've played. I find the emphasis to be more on strategy, especially if you want to use as few balls as possible to get the 3 star rating. And sometimes you can waste a ball if you don't wait for the ones you just shot to fall because your new ball might attach to the falling ones.

There's no story, just fun arcade ball shooting.

Music is nice. I like it.

Graphics are okay. I'm not picky about graphics, though.

I find myself having to force myself to quit. "Just one more level!"
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9 of 9 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
26.6 hrs on record
Posted: 26 May
ok, not all the way done with this game yet, but with 210/250 levels completed @ 3 stars each, I feel ready to review it.

IMPORTANT: Do NOT buy this game if you are ANY sort of color blind.
The colors of the balls starts at Red, Dark Blue,and Green, which isn't so bad, BUT...
Each new "galaxy" unlocks a new color... THAT's the big difficulty spike, 1 more color EACH GALAXY.
New colors are Light Blue, Yellow, Purple, and Orange. Now, I'm not color blind, but I've mistaken the color of a ball several times.

So, Pros:
1. Pretty fun bubble-blaster game
2. Achievements (long, painful grind of 250 levels for all 10 of them tho!)
3. Trading Cards, including (as of this review) a cheap collection of foil cards for a foil badge (still only 100 points, but THE PRESTIGE of a FOIL badge!)

and Cons:
1. Completing this game totally is 250 levels, which is many many hours of grinding the same-looking screen and music over and over and over... I recommend Netflix and iTunes or something similar in the background while grinding this.
2. This game is NOT very friendly for people who are color-blind, I can't stress this enough! New colors of balls in each new galaxy (on top of all the previous colors) is most of the difficulty spike in each new galaxy.

and one weird pro/con glitch?:
1. Occasionally (this has happened to me twice in 210 levels), a ball will glitch so bad at the corners of the game that it will set off a chain reaction of destruction that will destroy all but a few balls on that level. This gives you a free (or mostly free) level, at the expense of messing your controls up and forcing you to exit and restart the game to regain normal controls. Doesn't happen often enough to be useful, doesn't seem to hurt the game (aside from an almost mandatory relaunch), and will never happen when you're trying to replicate it to make a video of it to send to the developers' emails. T_T

Very very VERY fun to watch tho, as all the balls turn into oh so much confetti! =^_^=

Sure, there might be better games out there, like some other reviewers suggest, but this game has trading cards and can be 100%'ed for achievements easily enough (even if it does take longer than some other games). At only $2 USD, that's a bargain in my book!

NOTE: Don't get the 4 game bundle, only this and maybe Fragile Ball are worth it. Maybe Fragile Ball, maybe... but definitely Intergalactic Bubbles!
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10 of 12 people (83%) found this review helpful
Recommended
3.5 hrs on record
Posted: 14 December, 2015
The game is fun and is quite cheap but it is EXTREMELY MONOTONOUS. If you like the same level each and every round with absolutely no change other than a slight speedup, then go for this game but if you need a variety, I would go elsewhere.

I am glad I tried it and it isn't horrible though and it does offer powerups if I knew how to use one and all. Oh, and the controls suck and they cannot be edited.
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7 of 7 people (100%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
29.9 hrs on record
Posted: 10 June
A connect 3 or more bubble game, nothing too special about it, it's fairly generic although there's a tech tree added to it which gives you special abilities - however it's massively disappointing in my opinion..

There's three abilities but the only one you need is the bombs fully upgraded and then putting up your energy storage and income. After the first two stages you will have enough stars (used to unlock/upgrade) to do this.
This will be all you need to clear out all the levels with 3 star rating without failure every time.

I do recommend playing the game if you enjoy puzzles, it's really cheap for the amount of time you can get from it but I do have a few problems with it besides the overpowered bomb ability.


The game can occasionally give you the same colour ball back to back several times.

The level is too randomised every time you play it resulting in some attempts being much easier when there's more/larger patches of the same colour.

It doesn't really get any harder, just more balls added which prolong the level making it more tedious than challenging

Nothing really changes throughout the playthrough, there's 50 levels per stage and five stages which only add one new colour each.


The biggest issue with this game is that it will offen forget how physics works, the balls can get stuck inside each other, spaz out and on some occasions completely break by getting sucked into some black hole where all the balls will merge into one big mess.
This can result in either the board being cleared and getting an instant win, the board being cleared but not winning leaving you no way to finish or move all the balls into your shield and instantly losing.

Overall the game is incredibly easy but somewhat fun if you play for small periods of time, doing it all in one go left me wishing it would finish soon.
It's worth getting it on a sale or in one of the available cheap bundles with some other decent games.
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11 of 15 people (73%) found this review helpful
5 people found this review funny
Recommended
0.5 hrs on record
Posted: 6 October, 2015
This game is absolutely one of the best time passing games. It's simple, easy, and slightly addicting.
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6 of 6 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
2.2 hrs on record
Posted: 19 February
This is Bubble Trouble, but not as good, but still decent.
That's literally it.
Could use some f♥cking colourblind mode though.
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9 of 12 people (75%) found this review helpful
2 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
1.5 hrs on record
Posted: 9 July
This game is so bad, it ruined my mood.

The physics effect might be a nice thing. But everything lacks in the sound and visuals department. This stuff just looks barren, and the sound/music is painful.

Recommended to spend that 1 buck on something else, anything else.
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