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This a list of variants of the game Tetris. It includes officially licensed Tetris sequels, as well as unofficial clones.

Clones and unofficial variants

California Dreams released a Tetris variant called Blockout in 1989. It is played in three dimensions from a top-down perspective. The basic mode uses standard tetrominos, which can be manipulated with three different degrees of rotation, in two directions (requiring six separate keys for rotating, in addition to the four movement keys and a key to drop a tetromino). Further modes in the game introduce extra dominos composed of blocks set above and below each other, and may have more or less than four blocks.

Gravytris () is a freeware implementation of Tetris in OpenGL that implements the "chain-reaction" variant of gravity.

Bastet, short for Bastard Tetris, is a Tetris clone created by Federico Poloni. Running on the Linux platform, Bastet increases the game's challenge by using a mathematical formula to choose the worst possible tetromino to give the player, rather than selecting one randomly.

Cultris () is a freeware variant, using OpenGL and Java virtual machine. Cultris runs only on the Microsoft Windows platform. It supports up to 10 players playing simultaneously via Internet.

TetriNET
is a popular variant playable on Internet with up to 6 players. On clearing lines the player receives special blocks that can be used to damage the field of the opponent or help a teammate. This imitation uses general Tetris inferences, but the main differential is its 12 by 22 play field dimensions.

Net Tetris keeps close to the classic, except in this version you go head to head against a friend, or anyone on the internet. Rows cleared in groups are sent to the other player. It was released for PC by aSc.

Duotris is a Tetris clone produced by team Magnetics, which was released on Commodore 64. It featured classic 2D tetrominos and included a standard singleplayer mode, a two-player split-screen mode as well as a unique team mode in which both players filled up the same playing area.

Coloris is a variant for Amiga 500 released by AveSoft, where all pieces consist of three blocks stacked vertically. Pieces fall like in Tetris, and can be moved horizontally by the player. The blocks are of different colors, and the colors in the falling piece can be rotated by the player. Obtaining three blocks of the same color in a row makes those blocks vanish and give room for further pieces.

Pentis is a freeware variant for PC by Core Image, featuring pieces of random size from one to five blocks. The increase of difficulty is implemented not by making the game faster but by making the proportion of five-block pieces to increase.

Tetripz is also a freeware game for the PC, written by Mute Fantasies. It has a number of levels that alter the appearance of the game board (by spinning, warping or otherwise changing the traditional board). It is, according to the game designers, "playing Tetris under influence of LSD, but without the LSD." The row width is 11 blocks wide.

Tetanus On Drugs is a free software game for Windows and Linux, and it is also ported to Game Boy Advance ROM. The game was developed by Pin Eight, and, while not stated by its website, it is probably based on the earlier game Tetripz. Tetanus On Drugs plays on more traditional restrictions with a mode similar to The New Tetris.

Queen Tetris is another clone of Tetris. It was created by David A. Capello. It is downloadable at http://qtetris.sourceforge.net/ It includes versions "classic" and "destroyer".

Metris is a musical variant of Tetris created by Mark Havryliv and Terumi Narushima. It creates music directly from how the game is played by using game events to generate the soundtrack. It can be downloaded from http://www.uow.edu.au/~mh675/personal/metris.htm.

Tetris Worlds (NHN Corp, 2005) is a Korean interpretation of THQ's original Tetris Worlds. In NHN Corp's game, a player can rotate floored tetriminoes up to 15 times. The game includes modes of play similar to THQ's Tetris Worlds but also includes Tetris clear, where users compete in terms of time to clear lines containing "star" mino; survival, where users compete against each other like in other versus mode games; Sticky; Cascade; and Rush mode. Rush mode uses Cascade gravity and has 100 to 150 unfilled rows that a player needs to "dig down" using line clears and attack or defend items. The first player to clear the bottom row wins. The game also features Single Player puzzle mode and has multiplayer support for up to 6 players in Tetris/Sticky/Cascade and a maximum of 10 players in Rush mode. It is playable at http://tetris.hangame.com/.

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