How to get the Suika Game (Watermelon Game) on Nintendo Switch – Polygon

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You’ll need a Japanese Nintendo account to grab this fruit drop game
You may have seen streamers play what has been labeled as “Japan’s hardest game,” Suika Game, a fruit drop game where you combine fruit together in a 2048-ish fashion until you run out of space.
There is a free version you can play on your browser, but this is not the version streamers are playing — it’s a simplified version with slightly different scoring, physics, and rules. (In the Nintendo Switch Suika Game, you can see the next fruit you’ll have to drop, like Tetris, but you can’t in the browser version.) It should also be mentioned that there are also several dupes of the game on the iOS app store, but they all seem like ill-conceived clones.
If you want to play the Suika Game, you’ll need a Japanese Nintendo account to access the Japanese eShop and a source to pay for it. The game costs 240 yen (a little under $2).
It’s actually super easy to make a Japanese Nintendo account.
You’ll need to add a user to your Nintendo Switch that is linked to the Japanese Nintendo account you just made. You can do that by following these steps:
That’s all you have to do. Once you do download Suika Game, you won’t have to use this account to play, so long as this is your Japanese account’s “home Switch.” We’ve been launching the game through our usual profile and we’ve been playing just fine.
There are two ways to get Suika Game. You can buy it on a browser and it’ll automatically download to your Switch, or you can buy it through the eShop. The eShop offers more payment options but requires a tiny bit of keyboard language fussing. The browser option is just a checkout process, but you may need to figure out a specific payment option.
To download via browser, do the following:
The Nintendo eShop website would not accept our American credit card, so we had to resort to buying a 500 yen Japanese eShop gift card and applying that balance to our account. With this, we were able to nab the precious Suika Game.
Some people have reported that you can buy the Suika Game through Paypal successfully if you buy it through your console. If you don’t know how to write using the Japanese alphabet, this can be tricky. To grab the Suika Game through your Switch, do the following:
Now you’re ready to score above 3,000 and win in Suika Game.
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