In Blinx 2, the player switches between playing as the Time Sweepers and the Tom Toms. Much of the core gameplay is retained from the first game for the Time Sweepers, with each Time Sweeper equipped with a vacuum that can collect debris, time crystals, and gold crystals.[1] When shooting debris, the player can now lock onto enemies, a feature planned for the original game.[2] The player no longer needs to collect the crystals in any order to receive a time control, but rather just collect three of a particular crystal. Some of these controls can also be combined, allowing the player to use certain effects with each other, such as speeding themselves up with the fast forward while slowing the world down at the same time. Each Time Sweeper level has multiple missions that the player can choose to do, although only one needs to be completed in order to progress. Meanwhile, the Tom Toms control much like a stealth game, with the player aiming to avoid Time Sweepers to collect loot at a location, and then return it to their initial location without being caught. In this mode, the player has several gadgets at their arsenal to control space, distract the Time Sweepers and to assist with their passage through the level, such as decoys and wormholes. They also have guns, which can be used to take out Time Sweepers at risk of attracting attention to themselves. If the player is caught as a Tom Tom, they must hide, as the Time Sweepers will otherwise quickly defeat them.[1] The story mode can be played in both single-player and in co-operative, with a second player able to join the game.[3][1]
Despite being the game titled after the character of Blinx, he is not playable in this game, being only present during cutscenes.[4][5][6] He is instead replaced with two teams of four customisable characters, with a team for the Time Sweepers and a team for the Tom Toms. The player can customise these characters at any time in the hub world for the respective team, with an in-depth set of sliders to scale various different aspects of the character, and various outfits, accessories, emblems, styles and colours to choose from.[7] The player can use these characters in both the story mode and versus mode.[3] Versus mode, a new addition to the game, pits the Tom Toms against the Time Sweepers, with up to four players able to join. The time and space controls from the main game are carried over but serve different functions here, such as the rewind control now turning the targeted character into an "infant state", making them smaller and weaker.[1] The last team standing wins the match.