{"id":2990,"date":"2007-10-11T10:49:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T08:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-ten-tetris-alternatives\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:43:37","slug":"top-ten-tetris-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-ten-tetris-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Top ten Tetris alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Tetris screenshot\" id=\"image2991\" title=\"Tetris screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/10\/tetris-screenshot.png\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tetris.com\/\">Tetris<\/a> is one of the most fondly remembered game of all time. Designed by a Russian scientist, it&#8217;s beaty was in it&#8217;s simplicity and kept players engrossed for hours whether it was on their Nintendo gameboy or home games console. The game was so popular in fact that it&#8217;s spawned hundreds of imitators &#8211; some good some bad &#8211; but all remaining faithful to the classic Tetris format. Here&#8217;s ten top Tetris alternatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/balltris.en.softonic.com\">Balltris<\/a> &#8211; As the name suggests, Tetris with balls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/colortetris.en.softonic.com\">ColorTetris<\/a> &#8211; Colour version and includes the bonus game Pentix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the-wall.en.softonic.com\">The Wall<\/a> &#8211; Mouse or keyboard controlled version of the original<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boxikon.en.softonic.com\">BoXiKoN<\/a> &#8211; Blocks based clone of Tetris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xwelltris.en.softonic.com\">XWelltris<\/a> &#8211; 3D version of Tetris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blockfall.en.softonic.com\">Blockfall<\/a> &#8211; Tetris in the form of a Firefox plugin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wininizio-pensuite.en.softonic.com\">WinInizio Pensuite Games<\/a> &#8211; Pack of portable games that also inclides a Tetris style game<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/russian-square.en.softonic.com\">Russian Square<\/a> &#8211; An extended version ofn Tetris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/clicktris.en.softonic.com\">ClickTris<\/a> &#8211; A decent remake of the original<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/netris.en.softonic.com\">Netris<\/a> &#8211; Allows multiplayer mode across the internet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tetris is one of the most fondly remembered game of all time. Designed by a Russian scientist, it&#8217;s beaty was in it&#8217;s simplicity and kept players engrossed for hours whether it was on their Nintendo gameboy or home games console. The game was so popular in fact that it&#8217;s spawned hundreds of imitators &#8211; some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-ten-tetris-alternatives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top ten Tetris alternatives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2605],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontetris"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336941,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/336941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}