

The first is a table tennis minigame that takes the form of a quick time event where the object is to click one of the circular indicators on the player's side at the moment when the ball hits it. There are two minigames featured in Summer Pockets and Reflection Blue.

In both versions, once Pocket is completed, all heroines reappear on the game's title screen. In Reflection Blue, Umi's route becomes available after the completion of Pocket. Upon the completion of the Alka route, another scenario called Pocket is made available, which serves as the true conclusion to the story.

When all of the heroine routes in either version have been played at least once, an additional scenario called Alka is made available.

In both versions, each heroine will disappear from the game's title screen once her route has been completed. All heroine routes are available when first playing both Summer Pockets and Reflection Blue. To view all plot lines in their entirety, the player will have to replay the game multiple times and choose different choices to further the plot to an alternate direction. Some decisions can lead the game to end prematurely, which offer an alternative ending to the plot. Throughout gameplay, the player is given multiple options to choose from, and text progression pauses at these points until a choice is made. Four of the six plot lines are initially available in Summer Pockets, and seven of the ten plot lines are initially available in Reflection Blue. There are six main plot lines to experience, which is increased to ten in Summer Pockets Reflection Blue. Summer Pockets follows a branching plot line with multiple endings, and depending on the decisions that the player makes during the game, the plot will progress in a specific direction. When the game is completed at least once, a gallery of the viewed CGs and played background music becomes available on the game's title screen. Throughout the game, the player encounters CG artwork at certain points in the story, which take the place of the background art and character sprites. The text in the game is accompanied by character sprites, which represent who Hairi is talking to, over background art. Much of its gameplay is spent on reading the story's narrative and dialogue. Summer Pockets is a romance visual novel in which the player assumes the role of Hairi Takahara.
