Bubble Shooter World Cup is a bubble-popping game that replaces classic bubbles with soccer balls wrapped in the flags of countries that have previously participated in the FIFA World Cup, including Argentina, Brazil and France. The player's goal is to clear rows of balls from the playfield, a stadium with cheering crowds, before even one ball connected to the rows rolls to the bottom of the screen.
The player uses a blue arrow shooter to shoot projectile balls at the rows. They must create a cluster of three or more matching soccer balls to remove those balls from the field. They can shoot a ball directly or bounce it off either side of the screen.
Bubble Shooter World Cup helps the player by providing a preview of the next available ball in a rectangular horizontal frame underneath the shooter. This area also displays white balls that represent free foul shots. The player can fail to burst the balls four times.�
After the last white ball disappears from the frame, the player receives a penalty. All balls roll down the screen with the addition of one new row to the field. The balls also change positions, which means the player must come up with a new shooting strategy.
If a ball touches the bottom of the screen, the player can choose to either restart from scratch or continue by viewing a video. If they choose the first option, they can review their total final score, score for the previous match, bonus score and the total number of balls they removed from the field.