![]() This means you’ll want to choose your color assignments strategically, because you can only remove groups of two or more. The goal is to put colored boxes next to each other and then tap on color groupings to remove them from the screen. Tap on any empty box to fill it with the current color, and then tap on another box to fill it with the next color. In the upper left corner, small boxes display a color line-up, including the current color. They fall from the top of the screen empty, with no color assigned to them. In Shibuya, all blocks are the same size and shape: Wide, solid bars. IOS) is a simple-looking block stacker that focuses on color matching. Not all block-stacking games involve tetraminoes and shape matching. Shibuya has you stack colors instead of stack shapes. However, it is a challenge to try to find words while simultaneously fitting tetraminoes in place, and even the most seasoned Tetris and word-game players will find Puzzlejuice exhilarating. For the most part, you don’t need to strategize to get colors together (they’ll end up falling that way), but if you want an extra layer of challenge you always can.Īlthough Puzzlejuice sounds much more complicated than traditional Tetris, it’s actually not-it just has one extra step. As blocks start to pile up, you can tap on color-groupings of three or more blocks of the same color to quick-change those blocks into letter tiles. Puzzlejuice also utilizes colors in its gameplay: Tetraminos are made of individually colored blocks. To clear blocks from the board, you must now make words with those letter tiles by dragging your finger across the tiles (similar to Scramble, or offline Boggle) while still fielding falling blocks. But when you make a line, it doesn’t clear from the board: Instead, the blocks turn into letter tiles. The main part of the game is block-matching tetraminos using intuitive swipe controls (swipe right/left to move your block, tap to turn it, and swipe down to speed it toward the bottom). You can think of Puzzlejuice like Tetris, but with an extra step. IOS) combines both of these loves into one challenging, addictive game. Puzzlejuice combines Tetris and word games into one addictive puzzler. True to its name, Dream of Pixels has an overall tranquil, dream-like feel: The blocks are multi-colored clouds floating through a starry sky. ![]() But it’s just challenging enough to keep you interested without frustrating you (too much). The goal is to basically undo Tetris, block by block.ĭream of Pixels has a bit of a learning curve, and it’s definitely challenging. The trick is to pull shapes from the “right” places, because if you pull a shape from too far up, you may end up with orphaned blocks that can’t be turned into tetraminos (they’ll be floating on their own, not adjacent to any other blocks). To pull the shape out, tap any block near the bottom of the wall: If it can somehow combine with blocks near it to form that shape and leave the wall, it will (if it can’t, the block will pulse red). In the upper left corner, there’s a shape-the shape of the tetramino you can pull out of the wall. In Dream of Pixels, a solid wall of blocks descends slowly from the top of the screen. But you can’t just pull them out at random, or you’ll end up with stranded blocks that can’t clear themselves. Instead of fitting blocks together to form a solid wall, you’re pulling blocks out of a solid wall. Simply put, Dream of Pixels is reverse Tetris. What would Tetris be like if, instead of stacking blocks, you were pulling them back out? Now you can find out, thanks to Noodlecake Studios’ Reverse Tetris? What is this sorcery? Oh, it’s Dream of Pixels. With swipe controls, you swipe your tetramino left and right to place it, tap to rotate it, and swipe down to speed it toward the bottom. The “classic,” or rather “mobile classic” controls-swipe controls-are still there, and they offer the closest thing to traditional Tetris that you’re going to get. To compensate for the lack of tactile controls, EA offers several new, somewhat bizarre controls for the old game, all of which take a little time to get used to. But that’s difficult to replicate on a touchscreen device with no physical buttons. If there’s one thing everyone loves about Tetris, it’s the fast-paced, reflexive gameplay. The concept is, obviously, the same as the original, but the controls are a bit…wacky. ![]() We can’t have a Tetris games round up without Tetris, but if you’re a diehard Tetris fan you may want to take a deep breath before you power up Electronic Arts’ mobile Tetris game (free, EA’s mobile version of Tetris has a few quirks, but introduces some new challenges.
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