The easiest way to describe Slide Colors would be ‘like Bejeweled’, but to say that would be doing this indie gem a disservice. Slide Colors is a simple match-5 sliding tile puzzle game, but one executed with such polish that it could easily pass for a professional title.

For the almost offensively low price of 80 points, Slide Colors offers you three game modes. A puzzle challenge mode, where the objective is to move a select few blocks into the correct places on the grid in as few moves as possible, a Bejeweled-like (sorry) time attack mode, and a block elimination mode.

All three modes have multiple stages, all three record your high scores, and, a simple feature I appreciated, each one saves your level progression if you quit out of the game. This simple addition makes the game ideal for quick play sessions, blasting through a stage or two while waiting for friends to come online, for example, and leaving safe in the knowledge that you can pick up where you left off next time.

The pace of the gameplay also makes Slide Colors ideal for quick play sessions. With the player moving an entire row or column of blocks at a time, Slide Colors moves a lot faster than similar puzzle games (yes, Bejeweled). The frantic pace of the game make play sessions tense and exciting, and the excellent presentation values make it all the more entertaining.

Everything in the game, from the graphics to the sound effects to the music, is presented with a professional level of quality that puts most other Indie Marketplace games to shame. Everything is crisp and sharp, blocks slide smoothly into place and then explode in a pleasing burst of colour, accompanied by simple but effective sounds and overlaid by a charming music track. The presentation is up there with what you would expect from a professional developer such as PopCap.

The whole package is beautifully put together and consistently fun, and for the price, is impossible not to recommend. I mean, it’s 80 points. Basically nothing is that cheap. And for that price, you are getting a fully featured fast-paced and addictive puzzle game. If you have even a passing interest in puzzle games, or if you simply have a few minutes to waste between epic gaming sessions, I highly recommend picking up Slide Colors.

VideogameUK verdict: 9/10

Download Slide Colors to your Xbox 360 here.