Nintendo Switch’s Tetris 99 Turns Tetris into a Battle Royale Game

It plays just like the Tetris you know and remember (unless you’re my middle-school-aged nephews, who had absolutely no idea how to play Tetris when they were at my house on Thanksgiving). Blocks fall from the sky, you can turn them and move them right and left as they fall, and the goal is to use those blocks to form unbroken lines at the bottom of the screen. If you complete two or more lines at a time, you’ll send junk rows over to one of your 98 opponents, cluttering up their field and driving them closer to the end. You can target specific opponents with your junk rows, or anybody who’s close to going bust, or even just random people. (Really, Tetris 99 doesn’t care whose day you ruin.) And at the end there can be only one survivor. It’s like Fortnite or PUBG in puzzle form, wrapped around what’s probably the most famous videogame in the world.

You can watch a trailer for Tetris 99 below, and if you subscribe to the Nintendo Switch Online service, you can go download and play it for free right now.