Bubble Pop Shooter is a bubble-popping game. The player attempts to clear a field of hanging bubbles with bubble projectiles before the rows slide to the bottom of the screen.
The game provides the player with a single projectile per move, an aiming line made of white dash marks, and a color-matched targeting bubble with confirmation markings made of yellow targeting dashes. The player uses these tools to hit two or more connected bubbles that match the color of the projectile. The bubbles burst with liquid splashes. Non-matching attached ones drop and pop as well.
Although the player's goal is to complete a streak of popping clusters of matching bubbles as often as possible, they can also set up a shot by targeting only a single matching one. That said, they face a stiff penalty. If they fail to pop clusters after a random number of times, the game slides more rows onto the screen from the top.
Bubble Pop Shooter requires precision shooting. The player must place their targeting bubble in an exact spot and observe the yellow confirmation marks before making a shot. If they don't align the shot properly, the projectile rolls against a bubble and attaches to a row in the wrong spot.