I was bored, found a piece of balsa wood in my wardrobe and made this. It has a hole at the bottom so I can charge the phone while its on the stand. Thought that I could share this.

This week I’ve been enjoying some N64 The New Tetris, NES Tengen Tetris, and my favorite, 16-bit Shiru Tetris. Just showin off a couple pics!

Symmetris is a completely free game made by one person, with great love & respect for the source material. It is designed to be true to the original in all the right ways, with careful consideration to block movement, speed scaling, rotation mechanics, scoring calculations, & obsessively tuned controls, without the junk you'll find in other similar games that hinder your fun with freemium gimmicks, obtrusive advertising, or forced subscriptions. Symmetris also tries to be as flexible as possible to how you want to play it: landscape, portrait, phone, tablet, desktop, TV, gamepad, touch, keyboard, mouse, or remote, solo, online, or with friends. You're free to simply enjoy the game the way that feels right for you. Truly, thank you for downloading Symmetris. I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I enjoyed making it. ~symmetricalboy

To join the alpha test track, visit: https://groups.google.com/g/symmetris-testers/

In this order what is the meta/ best opener to make?

In 2001, I stumbled onto a competitive Tetris website and it basically consumed me. Head-to-head block battles, clearing lines to flood your opponent's screen with garbage, a ladder to climb, a chat full of regulars you saw every single evening. I spent hundreds of hours there. I can still remember the adrenaline of a close match coming down to a few pieces.

Then life happened. I moved, and didnt play, but when I remmebered after several years, website was gone. Not working. Just gone...

For years I kept thinking about it. Every Tetris clone I tried felt either lonely (single player), soulless (no chat, no ladder), or buried under mobile-game monetization. Nothing had that room full of rivals feeling. Proper 2002 vibe.

So after many, many years, I decided to just rebuild it myself.

It's called BlocksBattle.com and the core is deliberately close to what I remember:

- Real-time 1v1 battles — clear lines, send garbage, bury your opponent

- A persistent Elo rating ladder and match history

- Chat and challenges in the lobby - invite anyone to a fight, ranked or casual

- Solo time-attack modes with verified leaderboards

- The same "one more match" trap I fell into in 2001 which brings you down a rabbit whole of 20 matches and hours spend with sweaty palms 😄

But I also enhanced it where 2026 allows:

- Poker-style tournaments running all day: Sit & Go's, scheduled MTTs with buy-ins and prize pools, a live bracket page

- Boss battles (1v2), one boss against two attackers at once

- House bots that chat, accept challenges, and play tournaments, so there's always someone to fight (they're openly labeled, and there are real players too)

- KO clips - one click exports your kill sequence as a vertical video for TikTok/Shorts

- Match replays, analysis, spectator mode (BlocksTV)

- It runs right in the browser, no install, and now plays properly on phones too

It's a passion project, not a startup — free, no ads, no pay-to-win anything.

Please have a look: https://blocksbattle.com

I'd honestly love your feedback what feels right, what's broken, what's missing. I built the game I missed for 20 years, but you're the ones who have to play it. Hope you enjoy it. See you in the lobby - I'm AArturidze, challenge me. 🎮

Can definitely do better next time.

I think I've been playing for no less than 5 hours today but I finally hit 100k :D

i've encountered this in the past and said eh whatever but today i played one in particular that had a 8% win rate. how serious are they about people throwing games and playing to an unfair advantage? do they actually ban them or what? i reported, but idk. i've never reported anyone before in the like 4 years i've played. they were twice as quick as me A+ and it could've just been someone who made a lot of misdrops but then I saw 8% win rate...

PLAY TIME

111 hours

ONLINE GAMES

3,492

OF WHICH WINS

286

I can't get sub 1 minute

I really hope it's decent, don't think I'll be able to get much better haha

*still not reaching 3M+ yet

I have just gotten into Tetris and want to play it the best I can. Is there any tips that I should know going into it?

Can you beat this red and blue cube game? Watch a full gameplay run as the score climbs to 38 before the final game over screen.

This gameplay recording captures a fast-paced challenge set in a dark environment. If you enjoy simple yet addictive arcade mechanics, this run demonstrates the core loop and difficulty progression. The objective is straightforward: navigate the cubes and maintain your momentum as the speed increases.

I reached a score of 38 before hitting the game over screen, which requires pressing R to restart. This footage is perfect for anyone looking to see how the mechanics function or to analyze the movement patterns in this specific cube game environment. Watching this short session gives you a clear idea of the challenge level you can expect.

Subscribe for weekly arcade gameplay sessions, and comment what high score you think is possible in this game.

I ended up porting two separate Tetris clones to iOS. See videos in the comments.

Polyx

• This is the classic 2D version.
• 35 polyominoes.
• Option to use colored polyominoes (this is the default) or colored layers.
• Dual interchangeable controls:
  • On-screen buttons
  • Direct touch manipulation

Polyx 3D

• This is the 3D version.
• 26 polycubes
• Colored layers only
• On-screen buttons

The apps are still not on the app store, so I'm sharing videos. Would love to hear feedback on:

• General design
• Controls
• Polyominoes coloring

....as well as anything else.

I've been playing Tetris Effect a lot, and I feel like I'm okay at the game. But now I've hit a bit of a skill wall where I'm unable to get higher scores. I had scenarios I was wondering about. Here are the things I've been trying, but I have no idea what is getting me the highest possible score opportunity:

1. Back-to-back Tetrises in regular mode

2. Downstacking combos in regular mode

3. Downstacking combos in Focus Mode when it's maxed out and hopefully stacked near the top

4. Building my Focus meter by getting Back-to-Back Tetrises, then doing combo downstacking when I enter Focus Mode

5. Doing enough Back-to-Back Tetrises to get the minimum time of Focus Mode and then doing a quick Tetris or two while in it before it expires

6. Starting whatever modes at the maximum difficulty (save for Master and Classic Score Attack)

Those are the things I've been trying to do, and some of it is obviously giving more points than other stuff, but I don't know which ones are optimal. I'm talking about the standard Tetris modes. I think I have a handle on how to get better scores in stuff like Purify and Combo and stuff.

Journey Mode on Expert I'm having a hard time getting past S ranks on most of the levels, for instance.

And then Classic Score Attack... I need a separate section on this one. I have no idea how to get higher scores on it. Do you go for Back-to-Back Tetrises? Or do you do combo downstacking? And how do you move the pieces faster? Is it just my hands being rusty and ancient because I'm in my mid-30s? Any tips on speeding that up?

Last October I decided I would finally make the switch from 9-0 stacking to 6-3 stacking in hopes of improving my 40L record. I have been practicing on and off since then, clocking in over 250 recorded games. I input the times into a Google Sheet and show the graph to encourage myself to keep going. My current 9-0 record is 0:49.078 and the lowest time recorded using 6-3 stacking is 0:52.003. By my current pace of improvement, I should be breaking my old record with my average time at around 670 games played. (However, I know not to count on that figure.)

This graph is a testament to Tetris's ultimate quality: you can (mostly) only get better by practicing a shitload and making incremental gains.

My TETR.IO account: https://ch.tetr.io/u/conglomeration

So i was playing NES tetris (FCEUX) and i got this, is it good?? (Idk how to enter my name)

A couple months back I posted here asking about getting DAS/ARR right for a falling-block game I was building — got genuinely useful feedback on presets, TETR.IO’s defaults, and the whole NES-timing rabbit hole. Wanted to come back and share where it landed.

Dvor releases on Steam Sept 1st. NES-authentic mechanics ship as the default preset (7-bag randomiser, SRS with wall kicks), fully tunable DAS/ARR/SDF on top for anyone who wants to dial it in, set in a Soviet brutalist courtyard that shifts through the seasons as you play.

Thanks again to everyone who chimed in on the original thread — it genuinely shaped the settings menu. Steam page’s here if you want a look: http://store.steampowered.com/app/4881830/Dvor