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Someone made a Bejeweled 3 mod that adds more blue. That's it. That's the whole game. I spent twenty minutes with this and now you're going to read about it.
Paul
February 28, 2026
3.7
Overall Score
"I'll remember BLUEJEWELED as the mod that asked 'what if Bejeweled but worse' and actually delivered on that promise."
I opened BLUEJEWELED expecting some kind of twist on the match-3 formula that justified its existence. Maybe blue gems have special properties. Maybe there's a narrative reason everything is blue. Maybe the developer had a vision. Instead, what I got was Bejeweled 3 but someone went into the files and made everything blue. Not even interestingly blue. Just blue. I've seen browser extensions do more ambitious color modifications. The title image is apparently by someone named krystalcoconut, which means at least two people were involved in this project, and I have so many questions for both of them. This is the kind of mod that makes you wonder if it started as a joke in a Discord server at 2 AM and then someone actually followed through. The commitment is almost admirable. Almost.
Here's the thing about modding Bejeweled 3 to be blue: you're still playing Bejeweled 3. The core gameplay loop is identical because it's literally just Bejeweled 3 with a color filter. You match three gems, they disappear, more gems fall down, you chain combos, you chase high scores. PopCap figured this out in 2001 and perfected it by 2010. That foundation is solid. But there's no new mechanic here. No blue-specific power-ups. No strategic reason to care about the color change. It's like someone handed you a ham sandwich and said 'I modified this' and all they did was put it on a blue plate. The sandwich is fine. It's a good sandwich. But the plate isn't the innovation you claimed it was. I found myself just playing normal Bejeweled and occasionally remembering that everything was blue, which would make me sigh audibly.
I need you to understand just how blue this is. Not 'cohesive blue aesthetic' blue. Not 'artistic choice' blue. Just blue. Every gem appears to be some shade of blue. The background is blue. I'm assuming the UI is blue. It's like watching a Smurf-themed fever dream. The original Bejeweled 3 had a whole rainbow of colors specifically because matching identical objects requires visual distinction, and color is how humans parse that information quickly. This mod takes that carefully calibrated visual design and says 'what if we made that harder for no reason.' I appreciate commitment to a bit, but this feels less like a creative vision and more like someone learning how to edit texture files and stopping there. The color blue is fine. I like blue. But fifty shades of blue in a match-3 game is not the aesthetic breakthrough this seems to think it is.
The game page says it's a mod to add more blue. Mission accomplished, I guess. But where's the game design? Where's the reason this exists beyond pure chaos? I've played kitchen sink mods with more direction. I've played joke mods with more substance. This feels like step one of a development process that just stopped. Maybe there's a deeper version somewhere with actual blue-themed mechanics. Maybe blue gems could freeze adjacent tiles. Maybe matching all-blue combos could trigger special cascades. Maybe there's a story about a world losing its colors and you're trying to restore balance, starting with blue. Instead, it's just blue Bejeweled. The potential is right there. The foundation is solid because PopCap did the heavy lifting. But this mod doesn't build on that foundation. It just paints the foundation blue and calls it a day.
BLUEJEWELED is what happens when someone has access to modding tools and an idea but stops before the idea becomes interesting. It's Bejeweled 3 with a monochromatic blue filter, and that's the entire experience. The original game underneath is still fun because Bejeweled is a proven formula that works. But this mod adds nothing of value. No new mechanics, no creative vision, no reason to choose this over just playing actual Bejeweled 3 with its full color palette. It's free, apparently, so you're not losing money. But you are losing time you could spend playing the superior original version. I've seen ambitious mods. I've seen joke mods that commit to the bit. This is neither. It's just blue. If you have a burning desire to experience Bejeweled in monochrome blue for reasons I cannot fathom, this exists. For everyone else, just play the real game and save yourself the confusion.
Quality
3
It's a mod that changes colors in Bejeweled 3, and judging by the execution, it does exactly that with all the polish of a weekend project.
Innovation
2
The last time I saw innovation this groundbreaking was when someone put racing stripes on their Honda Civic and called it a performance upgrade.
Value
5
It appears to be free, which is the only reason this score isn't lower, because I cannot fathom paying actual money for 'what if Bejeweled but blue.'
Gameplay
5
It's still Bejeweled 3 underneath, so the core loop works because PopCap made it work fifteen years ago, not because of anything happening here.
Audio/Visual
4
Congratulations on discovering the color blue and applying it liberally to everything like a toddler who just found the paint bucket tool in MS Paint.
Replayability
3
I have zero interest in returning to this, and I say that as someone who lost entire afternoons to the original Bejeweled back when flip phones were cutting-edge technology.
What Didn't Annoy Me
Still has Bejeweled 3's solid match-3 foundation underneath all that blue
Appears to be free so you're only wasting time not money
Actually runs, which is more than I can say for some mods I've reviewed
The commitment to making literally everything blue is almost impressive in its thoroughness
What Made Me Sigh
Zero new mechanics or gameplay innovations beyond 'now it's blue'
Removes the visual clarity that made Bejeweled work by making everything the same color
Feels like an unfinished proof-of-concept rather than an actual playable mod
No explanation for why this exists or what problem it's trying to solve
Makes you appreciate how much thought went into the original game's color design
Final Verdict
I'll remember BLUEJEWELED as the mod that asked 'what if Bejeweled but worse' and actually delivered on that promise. It's not broken. It's not unplayable. It's just pointless. The original Bejeweled 3 is right there, with its full spectrum of colors and decades of refined game design. This offers you the same experience but harder to parse visually and with zero added value. If this is someone's first modding project, fine, we all start somewhere. But as a standalone experience worth your time? Absolutely not. Play actual Bejeweled. Play any color-swapped puzzle game with more ambition than this. Play anything that respects the basic principle that match-3 games need visual distinction. This gets a 3.7 for being technically functional and free, but that's grading on the curve of 'at least it exists.' I've seen more inspired ideas scribbled on napkins.
BLUEJEWELED
Genre
Puzzle
Developer
brandonhare
Platform
Windows, Mac, Linux
Release Date
Jan 1, 2024
Rating
3.7
/10
Tags
Someone made a Bejeweled 3 mod that adds more blue. That's it. That's the whole game. I spent twenty minutes with this and now you're going to read about it.
Paul
February 28, 2026
3.7
Overall Score
"I'll remember BLUEJEWELED as the mod that asked 'what if Bejeweled but worse' and actually delivered on that promise."
I opened BLUEJEWELED expecting some kind of twist on the match-3 formula that justified its existence. Maybe blue gems have special properties. Maybe there's a narrative reason everything is blue. Maybe the developer had a vision. Instead, what I got was Bejeweled 3 but someone went into the files and made everything blue. Not even interestingly blue. Just blue. I've seen browser extensions do more ambitious color modifications. The title image is apparently by someone named krystalcoconut, which means at least two people were involved in this project, and I have so many questions for both of them. This is the kind of mod that makes you wonder if it started as a joke in a Discord server at 2 AM and then someone actually followed through. The commitment is almost admirable. Almost.
Here's the thing about modding Bejeweled 3 to be blue: you're still playing Bejeweled 3. The core gameplay loop is identical because it's literally just Bejeweled 3 with a color filter. You match three gems, they disappear, more gems fall down, you chain combos, you chase high scores. PopCap figured this out in 2001 and perfected it by 2010. That foundation is solid. But there's no new mechanic here. No blue-specific power-ups. No strategic reason to care about the color change. It's like someone handed you a ham sandwich and said 'I modified this' and all they did was put it on a blue plate. The sandwich is fine. It's a good sandwich. But the plate isn't the innovation you claimed it was. I found myself just playing normal Bejeweled and occasionally remembering that everything was blue, which would make me sigh audibly.
I need you to understand just how blue this is. Not 'cohesive blue aesthetic' blue. Not 'artistic choice' blue. Just blue. Every gem appears to be some shade of blue. The background is blue. I'm assuming the UI is blue. It's like watching a Smurf-themed fever dream. The original Bejeweled 3 had a whole rainbow of colors specifically because matching identical objects requires visual distinction, and color is how humans parse that information quickly. This mod takes that carefully calibrated visual design and says 'what if we made that harder for no reason.' I appreciate commitment to a bit, but this feels less like a creative vision and more like someone learning how to edit texture files and stopping there. The color blue is fine. I like blue. But fifty shades of blue in a match-3 game is not the aesthetic breakthrough this seems to think it is.
The game page says it's a mod to add more blue. Mission accomplished, I guess. But where's the game design? Where's the reason this exists beyond pure chaos? I've played kitchen sink mods with more direction. I've played joke mods with more substance. This feels like step one of a development process that just stopped. Maybe there's a deeper version somewhere with actual blue-themed mechanics. Maybe blue gems could freeze adjacent tiles. Maybe matching all-blue combos could trigger special cascades. Maybe there's a story about a world losing its colors and you're trying to restore balance, starting with blue. Instead, it's just blue Bejeweled. The potential is right there. The foundation is solid because PopCap did the heavy lifting. But this mod doesn't build on that foundation. It just paints the foundation blue and calls it a day.
BLUEJEWELED is what happens when someone has access to modding tools and an idea but stops before the idea becomes interesting. It's Bejeweled 3 with a monochromatic blue filter, and that's the entire experience. The original game underneath is still fun because Bejeweled is a proven formula that works. But this mod adds nothing of value. No new mechanics, no creative vision, no reason to choose this over just playing actual Bejeweled 3 with its full color palette. It's free, apparently, so you're not losing money. But you are losing time you could spend playing the superior original version. I've seen ambitious mods. I've seen joke mods that commit to the bit. This is neither. It's just blue. If you have a burning desire to experience Bejeweled in monochrome blue for reasons I cannot fathom, this exists. For everyone else, just play the real game and save yourself the confusion.
Quality
3
It's a mod that changes colors in Bejeweled 3, and judging by the execution, it does exactly that with all the polish of a weekend project.
Innovation
2
The last time I saw innovation this groundbreaking was when someone put racing stripes on their Honda Civic and called it a performance upgrade.
Value
5
It appears to be free, which is the only reason this score isn't lower, because I cannot fathom paying actual money for 'what if Bejeweled but blue.'
Gameplay
5
It's still Bejeweled 3 underneath, so the core loop works because PopCap made it work fifteen years ago, not because of anything happening here.
Audio/Visual
4
Congratulations on discovering the color blue and applying it liberally to everything like a toddler who just found the paint bucket tool in MS Paint.
Replayability
3
I have zero interest in returning to this, and I say that as someone who lost entire afternoons to the original Bejeweled back when flip phones were cutting-edge technology.
What Didn't Annoy Me
Still has Bejeweled 3's solid match-3 foundation underneath all that blue
Appears to be free so you're only wasting time not money
Actually runs, which is more than I can say for some mods I've reviewed
The commitment to making literally everything blue is almost impressive in its thoroughness
What Made Me Sigh
Zero new mechanics or gameplay innovations beyond 'now it's blue'
Removes the visual clarity that made Bejeweled work by making everything the same color
Feels like an unfinished proof-of-concept rather than an actual playable mod
No explanation for why this exists or what problem it's trying to solve
Makes you appreciate how much thought went into the original game's color design
Final Verdict
I'll remember BLUEJEWELED as the mod that asked 'what if Bejeweled but worse' and actually delivered on that promise. It's not broken. It's not unplayable. It's just pointless. The original Bejeweled 3 is right there, with its full spectrum of colors and decades of refined game design. This offers you the same experience but harder to parse visually and with zero added value. If this is someone's first modding project, fine, we all start somewhere. But as a standalone experience worth your time? Absolutely not. Play actual Bejeweled. Play any color-swapped puzzle game with more ambition than this. Play anything that respects the basic principle that match-3 games need visual distinction. This gets a 3.7 for being technically functional and free, but that's grading on the curve of 'at least it exists.' I've seen more inspired ideas scribbled on napkins.
BLUEJEWELED
Genre
Puzzle
Developer
brandonhare
Platform
Windows, Mac, Linux
Release Date
Jan 1, 2024
Rating
3.7
/10
Tags