Here are 239 imaginative, daft or broken falling block games featuring laser drones, LocoRocos and playing cards

It is written that erstwhile the Sumerian king Gilgamesh archetypal beheld the gleaming ramparts of Uruk‐Haven, galore centuries ago, helium said unto his architects: "be definite to prevention up gaps for those agelong consecutive ones, and effort your champion to commencement a multiplier". But past Gilgamesh realised that, by means of temporal fluctuations excessively nonsensical to explain, helium was really looking astatine the submissions leafage for Falling Block Jam 2025, the latest Itch.io "make a happening with a theme" festival, which ran from past week till today.

Falling artifact games! Such a elemental concept, susceptible of truthful galore perversions. I person played a fistful of the jam's 239 entries and recovered them to beryllium enjoyable, if often rudimentary. As is the benignant circular these parts, I volition present effort to concisely pass their enjoyableness to you utilizing words. This is honestly going to beryllium rather difficult, due to the fact that I support seeing different introduction I privation to try.

A beauteous 1 to start: Bloquecitos is simply a Tetrislike with real-time physics, and blocks that merge to make different-shaped blocks erstwhile you lucifer their patterns. It's a crafty rejig of the developer's erstwhile Pancitomerge. I'm fond of the mosaic tile patterns, and I similar engineering cascades by merging 2 blocks truthful that others tumble together.

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This Side Up, meanwhile, trades the "falling" constituent of the "falling block" genre for a gradually retreating 3D camera. You've got a shipping crate and you're trying to capable it with vintage household objects specified arsenic cacti, cathode-ray televisions, Nintendo Gamecubes, and lizard tanks.

I powerfully subordinate to this 1 inasmuch arsenic I had a clump of worldly successful lock-up during a level determination past year. There's a acheronian creation to filling shipping crates truthful arsenic to optimise some retention abstraction and retrievability. I bash not assertion to person mastered this art. After all, I managed to disagreement up each my paired belongings betwixt abstracted crates. I had near socks and saucepans successful 1 box, close socks and saucepan lids successful another. Get ye down me, This Side Up! You are bringing backmost traumatic memories.

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Professor Gambler's Bone Scrambler is simply a falling artifact crippled calved of the fateful realisation that a thrown dice is simply a benignant of falling block. Each turn, it rolls retired a enactment of dice. You past descent the enactment horizontally to lucifer the blocks beneath and make combos, oregon walk points to reroll the set. How bash you gain points? From combos. It's got bully chiptune aesthetics, arsenic you mightiness expect from a crippled that has besides been submitted to GBJAM 13.

A Pico-8 1 next. In Recycled Blocks, you power a small laser drone that has to sculpt blocks arsenic they autumn to implicit enactment orders and region them from the board. I recovered the power strategy a spot confusing, but I emotion the concept. Ditto the self-explanatory Circuit Makers.

Jelly Well, meanwhile, gets 2 thumbs up for its subliminal hatred of LocoRocos and for its soundscape of quality rima noises. More of this benignant of thing, please. Call of Duty games would merchantability doubly arsenic overmuch if each the weapon effects consisted of dependable actors yelling "bang". I would prosecute Sir Anthony Hopkins to dependable an AK47, myself.

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Simply scrolling the Falling Block Jam submission provender makes maine consciousness arsenic though I'm losing severely astatine Tetris, truthful I'll defy the impulse to constitute up immoderate more. OK, 1 more, but lone due to the fact that it doesn't necessitate a computer: Doctor Vs Virus is simply a table-top falling artifact crippled you tin play with a modular platform of cards.

If you spot immoderate others you like, delight rotate and descent them dextrously into the comments below. Why not spot if you tin signifier a enactment with radical recommending the aforesaid crippled - I'll effort to adhd immoderate block-clearing people onslaught functionality to our moderation software.