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

This is a list of free/libre tetris-like games:

Game	Screenshot	Last Release	Genres	Description
Bastet		2017-06-03	Tetris	Bastet Bastet 0.41 (a cropped screenshot) Genre Tetris Latest release 0.43.2  (Announcement) Release date June 3rd, 2017 Developer Federico Poloni, based on Petris by Peter Seidler (until v0.43) Code license GNU GPL 2+; v0.43 under GPLv3+ Media license no media Contribute Bastet is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code 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++.
Crack Attack!		2005-05-14	Tetris-like	Crack Attack! Genre Tetris-like Latest release 1.1.14 Release date May 14th, 2005 Developers Daniel Nelson, Andrew Sayman Code license GPL Libraries GLUT, SDL, cairo Contribute Crack Attack! is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage 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.
Cuyo		2014-10-25	Tetris-like games	Cuyo Genre Tetris-like games Latest release 2.1.0 Release date October 15th, 2014 Developer Immanuel Halupczok Code license GPLv2+ Library SDL Contribute Cuyo is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code 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 Genres Snake, Hangman, Memory, Tetris, Board game Latest release 0.5.2  (Announcement) Release date October 10, 2006 Developer Carlo aka comisat Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 P. language Gambas Libraries Qt, SDL, and the Gambas Runtime Environment. Contribute comisat Games Collection is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage 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 Hetris Genre Tetris Latest release 0.1.0 Release date October 24th, 2002 Developer Ian Lynagh Code license GPLv2 Media license LaTeX Project Public License P. language Haskell Contribute Hetris is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage 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		2024-01-16	Tetris	Gottet Genre Tetris Latest release 1.2.3  (Announcement) Release date January 16th, 2024 Developer Graeme Gott Code license GPL v3 Library Qt Contribute Gottet is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Gottet is a tetris-like game written by Graeme Gott. 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	1D Tetris Scratch version Genre Tetris-like Release date October 2008 Developer hmnwilson Code license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Media license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike P. language Scratch Library Adobe Flash Contribute 1D Tetris is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. 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.
4D-TRIS		2012-05-12	4D, Tetris-like	4D-TRIS Genre 4D, Tetris-like Latest release 0.4.3 Release date May 12th, 2012 Platforms Windows, Linux, Mac Developers Simon László (Simzer) and others (see Credits) Code license GPLv3 Media license no media P. language C Contribute 4D-TRIS is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker 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 Windows port of vitetris (pseudo text-mode) Genre Tetris, Text-mode Latest release 0.59.1  (Announcement) Release date December 26th, 2020 Developer Victor Nilsson Code license BSD-like (see below) P. language C Contribute Vitetris is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code 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.
Sedtris		2008-05-26	Tetris	sedtris Genre Tetris Release date May 26th, 2008 Developer Julia Jomantaite Code license Poetic License Media license no media P. languages sed, shell (Bash) Contribute sedtris is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Source Code 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		2024-04-21	Puzzle, Tetris-like	LTris LTris Genre Puzzle, Tetris-like Latest release 1.3.1  (Announcement) Release date April 21st, 2024 Developer Michael Speck Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 P. language C Library SDL Contribute LTris is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Forum 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.
Xultris		2011-09-30	Tetris variant	Xultris Xultris 2.3.1 Genre Tetris variant Latest release 4.0.1 Release date September 30th, 2011 Developers David McNamara, Mike Schuette Code license Mozilla Public License, version 1.1 P. languages XUL, JavaScript Library Mozilla Firefox Contribute Xultris is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Source Code Xultris is a Tetris variant implemented as a Mozilla Firefox extension.
2H4U		2007-06-02	Tetris-like	2H4U Genre Tetris-like Latest release 1.3 Release date June 2th, 2007 Code license GPLv2 Media license no media P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute 2H4U is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Available as a package in:   OpenSUSE: 2h4u 2HFU or Too Hard for You is a combination of a Tetris game and a wall breaker game. The latest version of the game is version 1.3 released on June 2nd, 2007. It uses the SDL library and is written in the C++ programming language. It is licensed under the GPL.
Quadrapassel		2021-06-10	Tetris	Quadrapassel Quadrapassel Genre Tetris Latest release 40.2  (Announcement) Release date June 10th, 2021 Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 Contribute Quadrapassel is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Quadrapassel (formerly a part of GNOME Games) is a GNOME version of Tetris. It was previously named Gnometris.
TinyTris		2021-04-11	Puzzle, Tetris-like	TinyTrisPC TinyTrisPC Genre Puzzle, Tetris-like Latest release 2.3 Release date 2021-04-11 Developer Electro L.I.B Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 P. language C Library SDL Contribute TinyTrisPC is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage [TinyTrisPC] is a clone of the classic puzzle game Tetris released under the GPLv3. Originally written for the ATtiny85 MCU and ARDUBOY, the code has been modified to compile and run on Linux and Windows using SDL1.2. If you want the original code for ATtiny85 or ARDUBOY visit: https://www.tinyjoypad.com
Vertris		2007-07-04	Tetris-like	Vertris Genre Tetris-like Latest release 0.3.2  (Announcement) Release date 2007-07-04 Developer Andrés Rassol Code license GPLv2 P. language C++ Library Allegro Contribute Vertris is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage 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.
Tetrepetete	no image	2015-01-12	Tetris-like	Tetrepetete Genre Tetris-like Release date January 12th, 2015 Developer Thomas Perl Code license GPLv2+ Media license GPLv2+ Engine Tetrepetete P. language C++ Libraries Multiple (SDL1, SDL2, Qt4, curses, HTML5, ...) Contribute Tetrepetete is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code 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 Genre Tetris-like Latest release 2.52 Release date 2014 Developer Jean-Luc PONS Code license GPLv2+ Media license GPLv2+ Contribute BlockOut II is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Forum 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.
Alchemy Quest		2021-06-26	Puzzle	Alchemy Quest Genres Puzzle Latest release 0.5.2 Release date June 26th, 2021 Developers devurandom (graphics), Antoine Morineau (graphics), Guillaume Delhumeau (code), Dennis Payne (code) Code license GPLv2+ Media license CC-BY-SA 2.0 and 3.0 P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute Alchemy Quest is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Alchemy Quest is an update to the OpenAlchemist game. It is a falling block puzzle game created in C++. An alternative set of graphics for an NES version of the game were posted on opengameart. Dennis Payne replaced ClanLib with SDL and enabled using the new graphics. A two player mode was also added to the game. The game can still run using the original OpenAlchemist graphics. In this mode there is no two player option. OpenAlchemist was made as a clone of a web flash game called NaturalChimie.

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