Abandonware DOS title

The best falling blocks games

Falling blocks puzzle games means just one thing: Tetris. Everyone knows Tetris, but not everyone knows about the countless clones and original games that took the Tetris concept and built something new. Anyway, this kind of puzzles involve using falling blocks to complete patterns of some kind.
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Tetris Classic

DOSWindows 3.x1992 Spectrum HoloByte
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Tetris 2.0

Windows XP/98/951990 AcademySoft
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Porntris

DOS1993remakeNSFW Image-Line Software
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Brix

DOS1992freeware Epic MegaGames
If Tetris and a Rubik’s Cube had a weird love child, it’d be Brix. This 1992 brain-snapper is a tile-sliding puzzle game where every move counts and logic is your only weapon. You'll feel brilliant one moment, and hope...
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Logical

DOS1991 Rainbow Arts
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Chain Reaction

DOS1996 Webfoot Technologies
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Blockout

DOSMac OS1989 P. Z. Karen Co. Development Group
Imagine Tetris but in three dimensions and your brain slowly melting into a puddle of confusion. That is Blockout. You drop 3D shapes into a pit and try to line them up, but nothing fits the way you want it to. You rotate pieces o...
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Tetris

DOS1987 Spectrum HoloByte
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Sextris

DOS1992NSFW The Dream Team
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X-Tetris

Windows XP/98/951996NSFW
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Super Tetris

DOS1991 Sphere
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Acid Tetris

DOS1998freewareremake
If you ever looked at regular Tetris and thought, “What this really needs is eye-melting colors and a possible migraine,” then Acid Tetris (1998, DOS) is your jam. It’s the classic block-dropper, now with a palet...
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Welltris

DOS1989 Sphere
Welltris is a puzzle video game designed by Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris. Released in 1989, Welltris offers a fresh take on the block-dropping mechanics of Tetris, expanding the gameplay into a 3D environment. Simil...
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Xixit

DOS1995 Optik Software
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Klax

DOS1990 Atari
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Nyet

DOS1988freeware
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Tetris (Academysoft)

DOS1996 AcademySoft
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Beyond Columns

DOS1989remake
Beyond Columns is what happens when someone looks at Tetris and says, “What if we made it... slightly fancier?” This match-three puzzle game involves dropping shiny columns of gems and aligning them for points, all whi...
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Frac

DOS1990
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Zyconix

DOS1992protected Miracle games
Imagine Tetris went on a sugar binge and had an identity crisis. That’s Zyconix (1992, DOS) in a nutshell. It’s a tile-matching puzzle game where nothing quite behaves how you expect it to, and that’s half the fu...
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Color Balls

DOS1996
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Faces Tris 3

DOS1990 Sphere
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