Is Puyo Pop on Steam?

No. Puyo Pop is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Puyo Pop on?

Puyo Pop is available on Neo Geo Pocket Color.

When did Puyo Pop release?

Puyo Pop was first released on July 22, 1999.

Puyo Pop

Jul 22, 1999PuzzleArcadeNeo Geo Pocket Color

Puyo Pop — frequently asked questions

Is Puyo Pop on Steam?: No. Puyo Pop is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Puyo Pop on?: Puyo Pop is available on Neo Geo Pocket Color.
When did Puyo Pop release?: Puyo Pop was first released on July 22, 1999.

About Puyo Pop

A Neo Geo Pocket port of Puyo Puyo Tsuu, licensed to SNK by Sega, was released in North America and Europe as Puyo Pop. Unlike previous English Puyo Puyo games, the NGPC Puyo Pop retains both the character designs and (almost) all of the character names from the Japanese version. As in the English translations of the first game, Satan is renamed "Dark Prince."

Summary via IGDB.

Puyo Pop on Wikipedia

Puyo Puyo (ぷよぷよ), formerly known as Puyo Pop outside Japan, is a series of tile-matching video games created by Compile. Sega has owned the franchise since 1998, with games after 2001 being developed by Sonic Team. Puyo Puyo was created as a spin-off franchise to Madō Monogatari, a series of first-person dungeon crawler role-playing games by Compile from which the Puyo Puyo characters originated. The series has sold over 10 million copies, including the Madō Monogatari games.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Developer: Compile
Publisher: SNK
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action, Fantasy
Series: Puyo Puyo

Details via IGDB.

Reception

IGDB rating

84/100

from 1 ratings

Collector value & authenticity

Neo Geo Pocket Color · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-07

Loose

$107

Complete

$240

Sealed

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Region: NA+EU+JP
Released: 1999
Authenticity: High

Never re-released — the original cartridge is the only way to playHigh counterfeit risk

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Compile's Puyo Puyo, licensed to SNK, and the best pure puzzle game on the console.

This is a conversion of Puyo Puyo Tsuu — the entry most people consider the series at its best — licensed to SNK by Sega and released in the West as Puyo Pop. The chain-building is intact, the AI ladder is properly brutal, and the stick again does most of the work in making it feel right.

It arrived in the weeks after the North American retail launch, alongside Pocket Tennis and Neo Geo Cup '98 Plus.

Before you buy

Reproduced often enough to warrant a label check, and — more commonly — confused with the several later Puyo Pop releases on Game Boy Advance and elsewhere — listings conflate them, and this is a different and much scarcer cartridge.