Snipperclips is a cooperative puzzle game for one to four players built around two paper-cutout characters, Snip and Clip, who reshape each other by overlapping and snipping away portions of one another's bodies. Players use these changing shapes to solve gentle physics and logic puzzles — fitting into templates, carrying or transporting objects, popping balloons — with a bright, hand-drawn school-supply art style. Additional Party and Blitz modes add multiplayer puzzles and light competitive minigames such as basketball, hockey, and 'snipping' matches. There is no blood, foul language, suggestive material, or purchasable content of any kind; the 'snipping' is applied only to the cartoon paper characters and carries no injury or gore.
The game frames its snipping mechanic as playful arts-and-crafts problem-solving, emphasizing cooperation and creative teamwork between players; there is no combat narrative, peril, or mature subject matter, and even its competitive modes are lighthearted party games.