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#87





Years of release: 2016 (PC/PS4), 2017 (XB1), 2018 (Switch)
Beaten?: I was pretty good at it

I've played this game exactly once in my entire life, and about ten of you know exactly when that was - it was one year ago, at Shad's house, for Extra Life. Despite having limited experience with this game overall, I'm... kind of a little obsessed with it? I still think about it from time to time and I want to play it again, just picked it up on sale on Steam so I'll be able to.

It's a stacking tetronimos game, but unlike Tetris, it has physics, and you have to keep your tower from toppling over as you build it as high as you can - there's other game modes but that was the main one I remember playing. The physics and the necessity of building your tower high without it falling over gives this game a really great combination of long-term planning, short-term tactics, and precise execution that makes mastering it a multi-faceted task, and it means you can win either by playing smart or by playing well. Do you play aggressively and try to stack your tower high super fast, hoping to outpace everyone else? Do you play conservatively and build a steadier tower, expecting the others to falter by going too fast? The correct answer is probably somewhere in the middle, but it's a tricky balancing act trying to figure out just how fast you should push it.

The mode where you have to set down as many blocks as you can in a limited area is really cool too, love the puzzle solving aspects of it. Yeah, this one's a real heavyweight in the falling-blocks-puzzle genre imo, and I'm really looking forward to getting the opportunity to play it with other people again someday. Even though I only had maybe an hour with it - less than I spent playing any other game on this list - it left a big enough impression on me to include it on this list.