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Puyo Puyo Champions
Developer Sonic Team
Puyo Puyo Champions (Puyo Puyo eSports (ぷよぷよeスポーツ) in Japan) is a 2018 puzzle video game developed and published by Sega for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and in 2019 for Microsoft Windows (through the Steam platform). Released in Japan under the name Puyo Puyo eSports, the game was localized for international release in 2019 under the name Puyo Puyo Champions. As with Puyo Puyo Tetris, the… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
204 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 22, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
87
LovedLoved
137 positive · 20 negative
95% range 81–92%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 137 | 20 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 1 | 8 | 16 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 6 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
388 of 448 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
87% recommend · 145 yes, 21 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 166 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (714 of 898 positive).
Players say Puyo Puyo Champions is a stripped-down game focused on online competitive play, lacking a story mode. [1][2][3] Many note the online community is small or dead, especially on PC, making matches hard to find. [4][5][6] Fans of the series recommend it for hardcore players, but caution casuals may prefer Puyo Puyo Tetris. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [6]
i love puyo puyo, but the casual online community in this game is nonexistent, and theres no singleplayer endless mode, so what am i really meant to do here? :')
- [1]
puyo champions is a game made for tournament and online play. no story, no endless, no tetris. either play online or play with an ai. not saying this is a bad thing! i love puyo puyo, but if you want more single player elements get tetris 2.
- [13]
Definitely the best official way to play Puyo Puyo Online on PC, however its cheap price tag is also indicative of the amount of content in this game. All you can really do in this game is play the 2 main Puyo modes; Tsu and Fever. That's all there is to this game. Where Champions shines above Puyo Puyo Tetris 1 and 2 is the online. Puzzle League is somewhat active allowing you to just play Puyo (no Tetris) with …
- [5]
As a Puyo Puyo fan, this game is nice for bringing back more characters than Puyo Puyo Tetris (also, it has no Tetris players so you don't have to worry about wanting to play against other Puyo players and being smashed on the head with Tetris pieces). But it has no story mode, since it was made for online only (Hence the name it got in the east "Puyo Puyo eSports"), and after Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 got released, the …
- [2]
If you're a die-hard puyo player, this is definitely for you. I got all fuzzy inside when I saw a few nods towards some of the older characters of the franchise, though it's still disheartening that you can't play as any of them. Personally, I'm still upset there's no storymode, since I'm just a casual, but I still enjoyed it for what it is.
Summarised from 34 of the 214 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
87% of the 166 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Puyo Puyo Champions. The complaint that keeps coming up: no story or campaign mode. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received mostly favorable reviews. The Nintendo Switch version received a score of 74/100 at Metacritic, based on 10 reviews, while the PlayStation 4 one received a score of 74/100, based on 4 reviews. Nintendo Life says that Puyo Puyo Champions ably covers the essentials of the series at a great price point, leaving a score of 80/100.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 204 · most liked firstVirtua Fighter 5 seems like a tough game to play but you can definitely see improvements if you play long enough and keep at it. Puyo Puyo Champions seems like a tough game and it is you will immediately get destroyed if you try to play online with anybody they're all killers and gods there
negative · AI labelView post →Lemmy Multiplayer Games Rollcall: Who are you, what games do you play, how strong are you in each game?. I focus on multiplayer games, which means I need to find other people online to play with. Lets see who in the Lemmy community we can play with! Please list off games you're willing to play with others, and if necessary, your rough skill level (if appropriate to your game). Hopefully we can find some partners worth playing with. * Go -- I reached 7kyu last year on CGoban, but my studies…
neutral · AI labelView post →* Anything turn-based, especially mouse-driven titles. **Slay the Spire**, **Chess**, **Riichi Mahjong**, **Balatro**, etc. * **Puyo Puyo Champions** has a one-handed preset in its controller options. Do note that if you want to play online, only Switch is active since that's where Japan is, I can't recommend the game on other platforms. * **Kirby Air Ride** uses only one button + analog stick, and any button works, so you can use L. Would have to be left hand for the original, but the…
negative · AI labelView post →* Anything turn-based and mouse-driven like **Slay the Spire**, **Dicey Dungeons**, **Baba is You**, **Inscryption**, **Super Auto Pets**, **Mega Knockdown**, chess, riichi mahjong, visual novels, etc. Or anything turn-based in general regardless of control scheme if you're alright with playing slowly. * **Rhythm Doctor** - A one button rhythm game. * **Crypt of the Necrodancer** - This game's control scheme was designed to be possible to play it on a dance pad. Which means you can also…
neutral · AI labelView post →I made an Outlander Rozatte mod for Puyo Puyo Champions!! It's been a while since I've released a mod for this game (3.5 years !?) but I hope that someone will enjoy using this 🧡💙 Download here - gamebanana.com/mods/582752 #PuyoPuyo
neutral · AI labelView post →[Here's my whole library if you want to see everything I like.](https://www.dekudeals.com/collection/jw8hkpf6jb) Some notable exclusives: * **Super Mario Odyssey** - IMO, this is right up there with 64. The game is absolutely packed, biggest in the series, and I love everything they've done with new movement techniques. * **Splatoon 3** - And 2, but not like there's any reason to back to S2 now. I've never really been into shooters much, Splatoon, Kid Icarus Uprising, and TF2 are the only ones…
neutral · AI labelView post →Please play this game I need to play against real people so I can practice Puyo Puyo and get better so I can beat my brother some day
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →* **Them's Fightin' Herds** went through a very tragic downfall. Publisher fired the entire development team at the end of 2023, before the final DLC character was even finished, and then released her in a completely broken state. Much later they would eventually put out a hotfix patch with several pages of nerfs, and this character is *still* banned competitively. They did promise further fixes, but they promised that a long time ago and it's been radio silence since. All other promised…
neutral · AI labelView post →Arle Nadja @ericamendez.bsky.social Video Game: Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Year: 2020 Erica Mendez also voiced Arle in the first Puyo Puyo Tetris game in 2017 as well as Puyo Puyo Champions in 2019. #PuyoPuyoTetris
neutral · AI labelView post →I travel to Combo Breaker every year and enter a whole bunch of games. This year I was able to up my travel budget for both CB and Frosty Faustings. Some of them are games I consider myself decent at, some of them are games I just hop in casually for fun. And then there's the Mystery Bracket, where every round is something you've probably never heard of and the goal is to figure out what's happening before your opponent does - it's the highlight every year. Back in 2022, I even TO'd and…
neutral · AI labelView post →i love puyo puyo, but the casual online community in this game is nonexistent, and theres no singleplayer endless mode, so what am i really meant to do here? :')
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →puyo champions is a game made for tournament and online play. no story, no endless, no tetris. either play online or play with an ai. not saying this is a bad thing! i love puyo puyo, but if you want more single player elements get tetris 2.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →better than pp tetris.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't be tempted by the cheap sale price, Get Puyo Puyo vs Tetris 2 instead it is many times better. The AI in this game is just insane even on easy and not fun to play against. PPVT2 has way better balanced AI and is a much bigger improvement on this game. PPC doesn't even have a story mode, PPVT1 and 2 do have them and those things add alot to a game like this. Can't recommend.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the things fall and then they land
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →haha funny squirrel says "papu papu"
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't bother, it's a game designed to be played online but with no-one online to play against. Even when it was new it didn't stay active for long, because it was never given the attention required for PVP games to flourish.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That's a lot of ranting. I get it. PuyoPuyo main story is necessary for casuals to get introduced to the game. Chaining 10+ long while harassing is a skill that took me a literal decade to reach, and there are far stronger players than me at the game. But PuyoPuyo Tetris was that big casual story driven game that truly did bring a lot of players into the scene. Myself included. So yeah, I wouldn't be a serious PuyoPuyo without that. PuyoPuyo Champions/eSports is pretty good for competitive…
neutral · AI labelView post →* **Cadence of Hyrule** - The original Crypt of the Necrodancer is one of my all-time favorites. CoH doesn't quite reach that incredibly high bar, but it's still an excellent game in its own right. * **Metroid Dread** - Hits all the highs of Super, but with greatly improved combat and bosses. So yes, I am calling this better than Super, you heard me. * **Puyo Puyo Champions** - Technically, this is not exclusive. However, I am counting it as such because the online playerbase is dead on…
neutral · AI labelView post →This week is Fever Night on Carbuncle's Corner! Come join us on Puyo Puyo Champions on Switch this time! Back to our usual 7PM CST/8PM EST time. (If you don't have the game, it's on sale for ~ 2 dollars now!) #PuyoPuyo #PuyoPuyoChampions #NintendoSwitch Sign up here: battlefy.com/english-puyo...
neutral · AI labelView post →Online is pretty dead at this point but it's still the best way to play puyo puyo on steam without mixing in any tetris.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably not. This was built for eSports anyways and largely fell flat on that bet, mostly because of how it was handled by SEGA. Due to this, it was largely left abandoned as a side game for a spinoff franchise (Puyo Puyo) to a mostly forgotten original series (Madou Monogatari). Even when it was new, I wasn't getting bites years ago for random matches and I'm sure it's not much better half a decade or more later. I'll defend the Puyo franchise to my dying breath while certainly not being…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At its core the game is really fun. If you want to play Puyo Puyo and get good at it, there is survival mode, tutorials and versus, including online. Being able to change between regular rules and fever mode is also sweet. There are also a lot of skins and settings to mess around with to keep the experience fresh. It is however somewhat lacking in some areas. The quality of online play could be better and there is a lot of stuttering when the latency is high. On top of that there is not any…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're a die-hard puyo player, this is definitely for you. I got all fuzzy inside when I saw a few nods towards some of the older characters of the franchise, though it's still disheartening that you can't play as any of them. Personally, I'm still upset there's no storymode, since I'm just a casual, but I still enjoyed it for what it is.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It kinda sucks how the only modern way to play the Fever game mode is via Puyo Puyo Champions. *remembers Puzzle Pop exists* ...well, the only modern way ANYONE WITH A SOUL has access to.
negative · AI labelView post →You know what? SEGA has the *gall* to work with LRG to make a physical copy of Puyo Puyo Champions, but won't blink when fans ask them to fix fundamental flaws and failures with the game. This game could be a tournament standard and yet here they are keeping old and stale.
negative · AI labelView post →Finished **Deltarune** on my $450 Deltarune machine. I don't know if I can handle waiting another decade for the full thing to be finished. Storm knocked out my power yesterday (just got it back this morning), so I figured that at least until my batteries die, this is the time to start on that copy of **Sea of Stars** that's been sitting on my shelf after I bought it on sale last year. So far very impressed by it. Also nice that I can actually use handheld mode again with working JoyCons,…
neutral · AI labelView post →Bought this while it was on sale. Puyo Puyo eSports, a.k.a. Puyo Puyo Champions is an asset flip of the mobile game Puyo Puyo Quest. At its core, it's got the gameplay of Puyo Puyo 2 (a.k.a. "Tsu") and Fever mode. Most importantly, there's no Tetris in it. Can I recommend this game? To hardcore players, absolutely. But the game is severely lacking in content, compared to the Anniversary games that are packed with content. There isn't even an Arcade Ladder! The Switch version may be the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get PuyoPuyo vs TETRIS 2 instead. On sale, it's cheaper and provides more content.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely the best official way to play Puyo Puyo Online on PC, however its cheap price tag is also indicative of the amount of content in this game. All you can really do in this game is play the 2 main Puyo modes; Tsu and Fever. That's all there is to this game. Where Champions shines above Puyo Puyo Tetris 1 and 2 is the online. Puzzle League is somewhat active allowing you to just play Puyo (no Tetris) with others whenever you want without having to organise matches with others (trust me…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very good game, i have won 2 matches out of 18 on online and more losses to come.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →poopoo chumps is my favorite game This is the pared down version of modern Puyo specifically for ladder play. The PC ladder is decently active, but if you want to play with the real gamers you need to also get the game on Switch. It's pretty cheap ($7-10 depending on the season) so it's worth owning one for each major platform you play.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eight years ago Puyo Puyo Tetris got localized. The crossover is a massive step down from past main series games, but it was the first game to get localized since Fever in 2004. I hated it as a game, but I thought that it would be a good sign for the future because its record sales would surely mean the next mainline game would get localized too. We never got an actual mainline game. But we've been teased over and over instead. The next year we got Puyo Puyo Champions, a budget versus mode…
negative · AI labelView post →Steam: * Them's Fightin' Herds * Riichi City * Slay the Spire * Skullgirls 2nd Encore * Blue Revolver: Double Action Switch: * Puyo Puyo Champions * Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] * The King of Fighters XIII Global Match * Persona 4 Golden * Splatoon 3 Arcade: * Wacca * Chunithm * Chrono Circle * Music Diver * Sound Voltex Browser: * Mahjong Soul
neutral · AI labelView post →A fun but difficult game with simple-seeming mechanics but a lot of depth.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You can play as Sig
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →if you're a hardcore puyo, feel free to buy this, even if online is kinda dead you'll find opponents that can really destroy you the AI in this game is also very advanced which helps for those who have enough skill to top it off if you're not on those levels, get PPT1 or 2, you wouldn't rank a single win here
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is named Puyo Puyo eSports in the Eastern market. It's a purely multiplayer game. Netplay includes automated matchmaking and lobbies for the Tsu and Fever game modes. There's still some single player modes available if you need to practice alone though. I haven't played any version of this game other than the PC version. The automated matchmaking and ingame lobbies both seem to work fairly well. They function properly, and the playerbase on PC is big enough to actually find games. Or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love Puyo Puyo. I hate Puyo Puyo Tetris. It's a big step back from previous games, and it's the worst online experience I've ever dealt with in my life. And I honestly think it gives beginners a bad first impression of the series, because by juxtaposing it next to a more popular game I regularly see players get confused when it doesn't click in the first five minutes and decide they'd rather just play Tetris instead. I utterly loathe and despise Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. It's everything I hated…
negative · AI labelView post →You can flirt while playing this game. Much banter
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just want to apologize for railing on Puyo Puyo Champions this morning, I was in a sleep-deprived state and really wanted to rant about SEGA's lack of care to the game while still actively using it for tournament use. It does deserve better, though.
negative · AI labelView post →* Puyo Puyo Champions - Extra selfish pick, in this scenario now people would have to play it and we'd have a healthy playerbase again. I'd finally get to fulfill my dream of large offline tournaments. * Skullgirls - See above. * Stepmania - I was tempted to say Wacca or Chunithm, but in this scenario Stepmania would be ideal for nearly infinite content, as well as offering both keyboard and pad playstyles in one game. * Slay the Spire - My pick for casual second monitor content. I'm also…
positive · AI labelView post →one of the best singleplayer games of all time!! really fun to play, controls great, never gets old! only problem is that there is barley anyone online and needs crossplay, but other then that definitely play this game out!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NES: Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! GB: Pokemon Red SNES: Panel de Pon GBC: Mario Tennis N64: Paper Mario GBA: Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django GameCube: Kirby Air Ride DS: The World Ends With You Wii: Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary 3DS: Kid Icarus Uprising Wii U: Hyrule Warriors Switch: Puyo Puyo Champions Linux: Skullgirls Android: Simon Tatham's Puzzles Arcade: Vampire Savior I don't want to try to pick out a least favorite for every single platform. But I'll name just the two games I detest…
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want functional online, the Switch version of Puyo Puyo Champions is the only title worth bothering with. Specifically Switch, other platforms are ghost towns. If you want singleplayer content, 15th Anniversary, 20th Anniversary, and Chronicle are all peak. None of these games were released outside of Japan and they're older titles you'll have to emulate, hence all my salt about the state of things today, but at least they do have fantranslation patches.
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't get your hopes up if you think you're going to buy it and start playing online with others right away. The playerbase is relatively small, with dozens of players online at the same time, it's not guaranteed that you'll be able to play against anyone. Still, it's Puyo Puyo, I like to play it mostly alone, so I don't regret buying it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Personally, I got this for PC because I am tired of using my clunky ass Switch. I like puyo puyo, so game good. The only issue is that there are less players on PC compared to switch. This might be a bit of an issue if you like to play online as you will have to wait longer for a match. But it is a 100% recommend if you buy during a sale or you really love puyo puyo single-player. If you have the game already for switch, it's better to stick to that if you're paying for the online membership.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a lot more than a downgraded version of puyo puyo tetris, it includes the fever mode and many others. If you already have puyo puyo tetris and you're just a more casual puyo player then I don't see a reason to get this. However if you are an experienced puyo player who really likes the series I'd say go for it, especially now since at the time of writing this its on sale for 3 bucks.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →carbuncle is so hot
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a Puyo Puyo fan, this game is nice for bringing back more characters than Puyo Puyo Tetris (also, it has no Tetris players so you don't have to worry about wanting to play against other Puyo players and being smashed on the head with Tetris pieces). But it has no story mode, since it was made for online only (Hence the name it got in the east "Puyo Puyo eSports"), and after Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 got released, the online community died, so you can't get matches anymore. Which also means no one…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They gave me Draco I gave them my money.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →spins you around 360 degrees left right front center like a 2-set yellow puyo that im about to place for a sandwich chain except i set it up wrong and you're going to get stuck in purgatory as you watch the rest of the puyo pieces pile up on top of you with no way of salvaging the chain. i lose
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love Puyo Puyo! In this version I can use many different characters, I can choose a lot of background music and scenarios, so everything is very fun! :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →why is there no ecolo wait i love this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a cheap, accessible way to play Puyo Puyo online. Severely lacking as a puyo game in lot of ways, but it's okay. If you own either PPT game, there's not really much for you here. Biggest reason to pick it up is to play Fever online, which for me was well worth the price alone. But also this game reintroduced and localized both Serilly and Harpy, so I'm happy!! >w<
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the colors... they haunt my dreams.... every time I close my eyes, all I see is their stupid eyes...... 10/10 would recommend
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommended 8/10* Great looking high res art, great character designs, there are a lot of characters, which to be honest its not really necessary cause the game its a dr mario-like game, where you have to make bundles of puyo puyos of the same color so they blow up, and your character its just on the side speaking in cute japanese. This champions version it has of puyo puyo 2 and puyo puyo fever, to be honest i don't get why the game weights almost 10gb. the game goes really cheap on sales,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd love to see Puyo Puyo Champions / eSports get an update. It's feeling a little aged nowadays, and Sega don't update the game often due to it being a complete product that's used for tournament play.
neutral · AI labelView post →Puyo Puyo Champions has a one-handed controller preset. D-pad or ABXY to move, shoulder buttons to rotate. Only caveat is that if you want to play online, only the Switch version is actively populated, so I can't recommend the game on any other platform.
negative · AI labelView post →Puyo Puyo Champions is also £1.99 via Steam :3 (store.steampowered.com/app/971620/P...)
neutral · AI labelView post →
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