Spirit Swap's candy-colored blocks might call Tetris to mind. Like Tetris blocks, they remain behind my eyelids when I close my eyes, bouncing up and down to a lo-fi beat. More than once I wished I could step through the screen to be immersed in those beats, with no responsibilities other than clearing the board. No thoughts, head empty, glitter explosion.
You play as Samar, a Spirit Swapper. When spirits from the otherworld come flooding into town, it's your job to find out why and stop them. You do this by Swapping, matching rows and columns of colored spirit blocks in versus matches with your friends around town. As you compete with them to clear spirit blocks, and investigate the mystery of the spirits' presence, you can also fall in love. It brings together three genres that often overlap in other ways—puzzle game, visual novel, and dating sim—into a polished match-3 game.
