Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 08:57 pm
Sand Blocks: Blast Puzzle – Puzzle Game Review
Sand Blocks: Blast Puzzle is a Puzzle game from Voodoo, first launched in 28th June 2023.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,155+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Sand Blocks: Blast Puzzle Stand Out
This game is perfect for puzzle lovers and sandcastle builders. A Sandtris puzzle with a twist. You have to manipulate different shapes of sand blocks that fall from the top of the screen and arrange them in a way that they form complete horizontal rows at the bottom of the screen. The more rows you clear, the more points you get and the higher your level goes. Rotate and move the blocks to fit them better in the available space, but don't let them stack up too high or touch the top of the screen or you'll lose. This game is fun, challenging and relaxing at the same time. It tests your spatial skills, your reflexes and your creativity. Try it out and see how many rows you can clear and how high you can score!
Sand Blocks is a Tetris like sand puzzle game that combines satisfactory sand simulation with a beautiful art style.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Sand Blocks: Blast Puzzle is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th March 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Replaced some fonts;
Download & Availability
Sand Blocks: Blast Puzzle is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Sand Blocks: Blast Puzzle on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We see no reason why this would be less then 5 stars also good spin on tetris we love it + ( ) + ( < _ + ` — / / ).
Its a really great game. Fun spin on Tetris. We think you should add more items and maybe some more interesting bosses to keep the game fresh. And we think an infinite game mode where you could just play till you die would be fun, and a good way to get coins for upgrades.
We became addicted to this game and play it every time Im bored in class. However, the levels become repetitive at some point and you cant play pass level 126, it just pops up the screen to update your items or purchase something.
We had a specific play style, we hardly touched damage increases and went for longer games with extreme amounts of health (so we could play the actual game for much longer). The new update that changed everything Soft-Locked us. Its impossible to play without waiting another 2 months spinning the roulette table 5+ times a day. Might be forced to stop playing as a result, as we literally cant continue the game.
We actually quite enjoy the core game loop. It feels like a clever innovation on Tetris. Too bad we cant play it for more than a few seconds without feeling ill. This is because of constant, non-optional, fullscreen effects like flashing, camera shake, fly-in animations, etc. Unfortunate that a strong core is let down by an over-reliance on cheap effects. Unfortunately the game omits a score attack mode as well, instead favoring a pseudo rpg combat framing instead where the game decides youve won at arbitrary points instead of at a clear win/loose condition.
We understand watching an add to get the power up mid match but it drove us away from playing due to the wait time we have to do when we still choose to have no power up in the middle of a match. Keep the ads at the end of the round not mid round.
This game is a lot of fun but there are a couple design issues that we would hope to see improvements on. First of all, even after you pay for ad free, you still have to watch ads to be able to advance in the game. Once you hit a certain level (for us that seems to be around level 60, and then around 120 once you surpass that) you cannot advance without watching ads for boosts, which is silly. The boss drops are no better than regular mob drops; the amount of coins you receive towards level 50-80 does not make up for the amount it costs to level up your drops to an appropriate level, so you are also forced to watch ads in that case; the bomb special move sometimes doesnt work when you tap it?; and we could go on about things that frustrate us in an otherwise enjoyable and interesting game. Would love to see improvements so we can give 5 stars.
Am we playing sand Tetris or ad Tetris (frowny face).
Really good game their is no ads for some reason. Wish the controls werent so laggy.
Way more in depth than we thought and really fun. Quite a few adds but worth it Id say. Im only just through a he second dungeon so Im still pretty new but still. Would recommend.
Fun game. Pre,Mid, and post level ads are kinda crazy though. We ended up getting frustrated and deleting it.
We can see why people can find this game fun, but its not even what it shows. We downloaded this game looking forward to a calming game. NOT a fighting game. WhenI downloaded it we were a bit upset but we still played it anyways. When we got to lvl 60-70 the whole design of the game changed and Its not what we expected. It doesnt look anything like before and its not that fun to us anymore.
Ads sometimes is understandable but annoying nonetheless. We got an ad in the MIDDLE of playing, not after a level, in the middle of it.
Its a fun game aside from it forcing so many ads. Gives you the option to watch an ad for a boost and if you choose not to Itl force an ad. When you finish a level it forces an ad. When you try to start the next game it forces an ad. Uninstalling cause of it.
The update has stopped us from doing anything without purchasing anything. The update reset our character to 32 battle points(?) whereas our opponent has over 600. We're unable to play.
We tried and tried again on beating the boss, but ever since the update that removed all our old stats, its impossible. We can get a perfect like but since all our stats are back to beginner, it doesnt matter and our health is like paper and our damage is too weak to even have the enemy enter the second stage. Poor game choice to not fully reset everything and just the player.
Was fun enough that we paid to remove ads but with the most recent update they made it impossible to win and it seems like theyre pushing toward having to pay more to progress. Fun while it lasted but not fun enough to keep paying or watching ads to play.
We previously enjoyed how insanely difficult this game was, the insanity of trying to pass sand dungeon level and rock dungeon level bosses was very entertaining for us. Eventually the game got a bit nerfed and we shot up to level 189. Unfortunately with the most recent update, we are completely locked out of progressing. Our opponent has 32787 hp while we sit at 8000 and go down in five hits. Either you force restart our progression or you get our stat progress back. Im not going to watch ads to get back to where we were when we had already paid for a premium no ads experience.
We figured that since the ads were too much Id buy the no ads add on, but it still continues to show ads. Games fun though.
We love this game but every time theres an update it takes away all our upgrade progress and starts us over at zero. However It keeps us at the same difficult level we were on before that you need all the upgrades to defeat. Every time Im stuck, literally impossible to beat the level, unless we spend real money on coins to upgrade back to where we were. Its honestly rigged and super annoying. Will be deleting.
This game was actually really run and we played it to spend time, use when we were bored, blah blah blah. But recently there has been a knew update. Mind you, im on level 93. We have a lot of health okay? They updated the game and it seems they just reset our health to 32. So we basically cant even play the game without dying the first 3 seconds. Unless they get rid of this silly update. DO NOT DOWNLOAD.
We were a decently high level in the flower castle before the update. But with the new changes, we got reset to the beginner level and was kept in the same stage.
Game has ads every 30-40 seconds whether or not you pay for no ads. Ruins a otherwise good game.
Gameplay is fun and what we want. The ads. The ads are unbearable and we have purchased the $1.99 no ads but it does not work. And then we are greeted with a pop-up for $7.99 no ads which we would buy if it actually worked the pop up does not do anything other than taunt you with the thought you could possibly play without ads. Sadly we must uninstall.
We enjoy playing this game, however we downloaded it because we just wanted to play sand Tetris and all the extra stuff makes it annoying to play.
We love ad-supported games, but this is more like game-supported ads. Ads between levels is fine, this game throws ads at you mid-level. And the ads are literally longer than the levels are. What a joke.
We payed to not have ads anymore, which makes the overall experience better. But its not great. Every level feels like we have to repeat it multiple times unless we watch ads, WHICH we PAYED NOT TO HAVE. We cant stand that we still have to consider watching ads for boosts, AFTER PAYING, to try beating levels. If there was a better economy for beating levels, a way to spend in-game currency to boost ourselves, loot that helped us in later levels, the game would be more enjoyable. As it stands, Im better off just mindlessly letting ourselves lose repeatedly so that we can earn enough coins to level our character up to beat the next level. Its worth more losing than it is winning. Also, some sort of zen mode or endless mode thats more relaxing than the campaign-like mode thats available would really improve the game.
We enjoy the game but we purchased the No Adds but still get adds, Ive tried exiting app and restoring purchases and nothing has helped.
It would be a fun game without the involuntary ads every few minutes.
Would be better without the fighting. Would prefer to just play high score style game.
Theres at least 2 bugs every time we open the game. Whether its the game not registering our moves or refusing to work when we spin the wheel. Just a few minutes ago we beat a level and pressed continue the screen froze and had to try and beat it again until our frustration with the bugs took its toll. Fun for a while but not worth anything.
This game doesn't warrant the amount of low tier ads.
This game would be so much fun if it was just an unlimited, see how long you can last game. We dont understand the fighting between your character and the villain. To us it ruins the game and ruins the fun Im having. We could be having fun then you died goes across the screen and its frustrating. Like cmon, just have the way you die be like the game youre ripping off, when you reach the line at the top of the screen.
Was very fun, ad free is cheap, but we got to a point where we couldnt go any further without paying real world money. Poor level design to a point where the enemy never lets you complete a whole line unless you constantly buy powerups and boosters.
Here is another one of voodoos masterpieces aka advertisement montage. Every one of their games has an insane amount of ads scattered throughout to the point where you cannot even play a full level in the game without encountering at least one. The usual way to circumvent these ads is not paying however many dollars it is in order to play the game, its turning off your wifi. Too bad that the game requires internet connection for some insane reason. Thanks Voodoo, you hate us, and because of that we wont be playing your game (giving you ad revenue).
Many people had negative things to say about this game but honestly if we had this game as a kid we wouldve been OBSESSED. Even now, 19 years old, we enjoy playing this game. When you clear rows of the same color sand, it does damage points to the enemy, but theres no actual fighting, its all just health bars and numbers. And honestly we read a lot of the bad reviews before playing expecting negative things but most of those reviewers have no idea what theyre talking about . One review said that the game is filled with ads and you can only play with an internet connection, but we played just fine on airplane mode Another one said you can let the blocks fall in the center and easily win every game, but we tried that and it just doesnt work because you have to strategically place different colored sand while paying attention to the next colored block or youll screw it all up. ANOTHER review said that the fighting aspect takes away from the fact that its clearly supposed to be a spin-off of tetris, but if its a spin-off, isnt the whole point supposed to be adding something new/different??? Theres genuinely no reason why someone could dislike this game. Its fun, it passes the time, its simple, some levels are challenging. Overall, definitely a good game :D.
Wish there were less ads and its hard to win with all the glitches.
We loved the game so much until the most recent update. The levels were easy and fun to pass time easily. We got to about level 260 or so then it updated to a battle type challenge. Not that its hard or anything but the old layout was just so much better. Bring it back pls.
Game would be so good if it werent for the needless battle system.
This game used to be so fun but recently it had this new update which made it very weird to move and now theres damage from a monster like whatttt.
We only downloaded and began playing this for the first time just a few days ago, looking at the (apparently now very misleading) first of the preview images for this app, thinking "Oh cool, somebody finally made Sandtris playable for mobile/touch devices! But as most of the more recent reviews point out, that's how it used to be. We've played games before where gimmicky new mechanics are introduced or swapped in every few levels (think TwoDots), but doing that here kinda ruins the fundamental base mechanic of the game. What's worseagain, as some of the more recent reviews point outis they this game is not the infinite-play-until-you-lose style one would expect from a Tetris-like puzzle game, but rather you're locked into a progression of levels. You can't even go back to an earlier level or just restart completely. You're stuck with one level until you beat it and move onto the next. On top of that, there are indeed weirdly unnecessary and annoying RPG characters at the top being affected by/affecting you just trying to play what should be a simple puzzle game, and they almost seem designed to even distract you at times from paying attention to the main gameplay. We're only up to level 42, but our enjoyment of this game started to diminish greatly around level 20. We've retracted our suggestion of this game to friends we made just a few days ago, and told them we're stopping playing it to go see what other Sandtris clones/ripoffs are in the App Store that seem to be plentiful, in hopes they're not as bogged down by unnecessary elements and ads as this one is.
This game was awesome and was fun to pass the time. We were at level 250+. The new update came in and now all of that is lost. Now we are forced to play some VS mode that should of been a optional mode on top of the levels and endless. We were skeptical when you guys changed the layout so drastically a month or so ago but this update is just dumb on your part. No one wants to play a game that just decides to delete your progress at any given moment.
We dont like the new update. You guys shouldve made it an option.
We used to love this game but now im stuck in some stupid Versus mode and we cant get out. Any help.
Why change the whole game? Now theres bosses? We were looking forward to doing 1,000 levels and now we cant. Why not add different game modes.
The sand Tetris was mad cool but then you made it to where instead of getting points you kill someone but the health is too low and now we can play for longer than 2 seconds before the person dies and we have to restart to fix this add the old modes back and add the new mode as an option or make it to when you kill someone the next person comes without you restarting.
This new update is horrible. This arcade-y, Vs. Version did NOT need to happen. It was perfect the way it was and now its ruined.
We loved the old game and the almost mindless game play now to us it just feels stupid we understand the ads we actually dont mind them but the game had been completely changed into a new game it makes us no longer want to play it.
This was a decent game with an endless survival mode and a level mode. However, then they changed it to include a weird and completely unnecessary combat aspect and completely removed the endless survival mode and the other level mode, so now the games are ridiculously short because of how the combat works. Im glad we didnt actually buy this before they made that change because it is definitely not worth the money now.
The whole point of this game was to have endless and a level mode. So why did y'all change it to this stupid game with no endless mode. Just add more game modes don't change the whole concept.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.17.02
- Size: 430.58 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Voodoo
Last updated: 5th March 2025 | Genre: Puzzle | Developer: Voodoo