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Bejeweled (2001)

PopCap Games

BlackBerry OS · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Palm OS · Windows Mobile · Xbox · iOS

2.97 from 151 ratings

430 members have it in their collection · 3 playing now · 88 backlogged · 8 wish listed

Bejeweled is a tile-matching puzzle video game by PopCap Games, first developed for browsers in 2001. Three follow-ups to this game have been released. More than 75 million copies of Bejeweled have been sold, and the game has been downloaded more than 150 million times. Although the game is no longer downloadable through PopCap's website, the installer can be downloaded via the Wayback Machine.
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Details

Developers
PopCap Games
Publishers
Electronic Arts, PopCap Games
Genres
Arcade, Puzzle, Strategy
Series
Bejeweled
Event
Xbox E3 2004 Press Conference
Steam
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Release dates

  • May 30, 2001 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • 2001 (Worldwide) BlackBerry OS
  • 2002 (Worldwide) Mac
  • 2004 (Worldwide) Xbox
  • 2007 (Worldwide) iOS
  • 2021 (Worldwide) Windows Mobile
  • TBD (Worldwide) Palm OS

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Rating distribution

5 stars
11
4 stars
26
3 stars
72
2 stars
32
1 star
10
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Yungbeck

Review Yungbeck 3/5 · Mar 14, 2024

an Alt + Tab Classic

bj

While working on something on my school computer in the early 00's, I can remember often having a game of Bejeweled minimised, with the teacher looming around the tables at all times - ready to close your games and ERADICATE your score! This Pop Cap hall of fame tile-matching puzzler sold incredibly well and I'm sure if you never played …

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bj

While working on something on my school computer in the early 00's, I can remember often having a game of Bejeweled minimised, with the teacher looming around the tables at all times - ready to close your games and ERADICATE your score! This Pop Cap hall of fame tile-matching puzzler sold incredibly well and I'm sure if you never played it - at least you tried some other version or clone of it at some point.

[3] / [5]

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Mazinkaiser

Review Mazinkaiser 2/5 · May 22, 2019

Bejeweled: A Dull Experience in Pretty Packaging

Bejeweled was not the first match-3 game to hit the market (that was Shariki) - it was mainly just the most popular. Featuring a board of games where the player can swap gems on the board to get three in a row (or more), the game excels at providing cute sound effects and the feeling of a chain reaction where …

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Bejeweled was not the first match-3 game to hit the market (that was Shariki) - it was mainly just the most popular. Featuring a board of games where the player can swap gems on the board to get three in a row (or more), the game excels at providing cute sound effects and the feeling of a chain reaction where multiple matches go off at once.

That said, the addictive qualities wear off surprisingly quickly, and the player finds themselves in a randomly generated hidden object game where their brains turn to much from gazing at a stack of gems to inevitably fail. There's a time trial to keep things snappy, but it's a death march from start to finish when the player runs out of gems.

Being that this was the first game to do so, I compared it to its more modern counterpart (Bejeweled: Classic) and I got more of the same. No fantasy vistas, relaxing music, or tweakable zen options could get around the fact that this game gets boring incredibly quickly and there's not much interest after five minutes.

Bejeweled is the type of game that requires constant small playthroughs of a few minutes to keep things interesting or a massive amount of patience. Even with modern tweaks or pretty gems or fun chain reactions, this game is remarkably dull.

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