Bubble Shooter 3D is a bubble-popping game that features casual three-dimensional graphics and a fun-in-the-sun theme. At a sunny beach location, the game prompts the player to pop bubble balls in a gigantic square ball pit that's partially surrounded by green palm trees using a virtual life-size slingshot shooter and bubble-ball projectiles. The player's ultimate goals are to remove all balls from the pit and earn a high score.
As with classic bubble shooters, the player can only pop bubble balls when they match the projectile with at least two adjacent color-matched pit balls. The game makes this process extremely hard by providing an inaccurate curved, thin, red targeting line. When the player shoots using this line, they might drop a ball too close to the shooter or too far from their target.
Bubble Shooter 3D acts like a claw machine. It forces the player to gauge distance based on a top-down angled perspective. When the player performs well, the bubble balls disappear. The game displays their points in the upper-right area. If they fail and the game resets, their best score appears in the same area above the current one.