Falling block puzzle games
Falling block games are a type of arcade games in which there's a grid in which blocks fall from the top and you have to arrange the blocks in a particular way to gain score.
List of Tetris-like games[edit]
This is a list of free/libre tetris-like games:
Game | Screenshot | Last Release | Genres | Description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bastet | ![]() |
2017-06-03 | Tetris |
Bastet is a tetris clone that stand for Bastard Tetris. It based on Petris, a public domain Tetris clone by Peter Seidler, and developed by Federico Poloni, with a complete rewrite at version 0.43. It is licensed under GPLv3+. Version 0.37 was the first public release of the game. It is written in C++.[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Crack Attack! | ![]() |
2005-05-14 | Tetris-like |
Crack Attack! is a puzzle game by Daniel Nelson and Andrew Sayman which is a clone of Nintendo's Tetris Attack. It is written using the SDL and GLUT library. It is licensed under the GPL. As of 2011-07-26, the latest version of the game is 1.1.14. Development has been abandoned as of 2012.[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cuyo | ![]() |
2014-10-25 | Tetris-like games |
Cuyo is a Puyo Puyo-style puzzle game for up to two players. The player controls falling blocks of various types which change with each level. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comisat Games Collection | ![]() |
2006-10-10 | Snake, Hangman, Memory, Tetris, Board game |
comisat Games Collection is a collection of free software games written in Gambas. It is one of the first notable Gambas games, with exceptions being code examples such as recreations of Snake, Robotfindskitten, and other small efforts. The collection is available in English and Italian. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hetris | ![]() |
2002-10-24 | Tetris |
Hetris: An exploration of literate programming in Haskell is a text mode implementation of Tetris in Haskell, created by Ian Lynagh to demonstrate pretty-printing of a literate Haskell program using Haskell2LaTeX. The document produced by running Haskell2LaTeX then LaTeX is a detailed explanation of the structure and internals of the program. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gottet | ![]() |
2022-05-03 | Tetris |
Gottet is a tetris-like game written by Graeme Gott. The latest version of the game is 1.1.1 released on January 25th, 2015. It is licensed under the GPL. It is written with the Qt library. The game's website features an optional tipping section near the downloads, as a pay what you want model. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1D Tetris | ![]() |
Tetris-like |
This article has been marked for deletion review by a wiki user. Discuss on the talk page 1D Tetris or Tetris 1D is a version of Tetris made to be one dimensional, mostly as a math joke. The game exists in a number of versions, some of them free software. The game is also sometimes described as Tetris for those who think that regular Tetris is too hard.[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
4D-TRIS | ![]() |
2012-05-12 | 4D, Tetris-like |
4D-TRIS is a logic game in 4 spatial dimensions, based on Tetris, written in C by Simon László. The game uses 2x2x2 levels, thus having a 8-cell bottom like most 2D Tetris games do. The source code (there is no media, shapes are drawn automatically) is licensed under the GPLv3 or any later version. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vitetris | ![]() |
2020-12-26 | Tetris, Text-mode |
vitetris is a Tetris clone written by Victor Nilsson. It was originally written with only Linux and minimal library dependencies in mind, but is now very portable and can optionally make use of a curses library or Allegro.[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sedtris | ![]() |
May 26th, 2008 | Tetris |
sedtris is a Tetris implementation in sed, written by Julia Jomantaite and released on May 26th, 2008. It is licensed under the Poetic License. A Bash script can be used, which presses Enter once a second and adds more(?) randomness. The script is based on playsed.sh by Aurelio Marinho Jargas (doesn't seem to have any license attached). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
LTris | ![]() |
2022-06-17 | Puzzle, Tetris-like |
LTris is a Tetris clone written by Michael Speck. It uses the SDL library. The latest version of the game is 1.0.14 on December 25th, 2009. It is licensed under the terms of the GPLv2.[6] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Xultris | ![]() |
2011-09-30 | Tetris variant |
Xultris is a Tetris variant implemented as a Mozilla Firefox extension.
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2H4U | ![]() |
2007-06-02 | Tetris-like |
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Quadrapassel | ![]() |
2020-11-17 | Tetris |
Quadrapassel (formerly a part of GNOME Games) is a GNOME version of Tetris. It was previously named Gnometris.[10] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
TinyTris | ![]() |
2021-04-11 | Puzzle, Tetris-like |
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Vertris | ![]() |
2007-07-04 | Tetris-like |
Vertris is a simple cross-platform Tetris clone written in C that uses the Allegro library for graphics. It is covered under the GNU General Public License.[12] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tetrepetete | no image | 2015-01-12 | Tetris-like |
Tetrepetete is a portable Tetris-like game written in C++ with a common core and multiple frontends. This includes a SDL1-based OpenGL renderer, SDL2-based frontend, Qt4-based frontend and even a ncurses (text mode) based frontend. The game can also run in the browser by cross-compiling C++ to JavaScript/WASM. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
BlockOut II | ![]() |
2014 | Tetris-like |
BlockOut II is a falling block game in 3 dimensions. The camera is located at the top of the pit and 3-dimensional connected blocks fall to the ground. You score for filling a complete layer with blocks, you lose when the blocks reach the ceiling. Try to aim for the highscore, but the longer you play, the faster the blocks will fall. You can move the falling blocks horizontally and rotate them in 3 cardinal directions. To master this game, you must be spatially aware. |
- ↑ Bastet's source files
- ↑ https://gnu-lorien.livejournal.com/11774.html
- ↑ 1D Tetris iPod Linux module
- ↑ vitetris license file
- ↑ vitetris readme file
- ↑ ltris RPM packages for Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora
- ↑ Download page for 2H4U accessed on June 5th, 2009
- ↑ Sourceforge.net project page for the 2HFU project
- ↑ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/quadrapassel/
- ↑ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Quadrapassel
- ↑ https://code.google.com/archive/p/vertris/
- ↑ https://www.allegro.cc/depot/Vertris/
- ↑ See README.txt
- ↑ See README.txt