Classics: games like Tetris

I think I can safely say that Tetris is the single most popular computer puzzle game of all time. Countless variants were developed for every imaginable system year after year. Tetris was developed by a russian engineer called Alexey Pajitnov and published for the first time in 1984.

Most popular Tetris clones games

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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...

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...

BlockOut 2

Windows XP/98/95Linux2000freeware

If you’ve ever looked at Tetris and thought, “This needs to be in 3D and way harder,” then BlockOut 2 (2000) is your kind of punishment. This brain-melter takes falling blocks to the next dimension—literall...