Friday Itch.io Fun: Neltris

April 19, 2024 12:03 AM

Neltris is a small in-browser game by Hempuli, creator of Baba is You, Environmental Station Alpha, and scores of tiny indie games as seen on that itch.io page. It's just Tetris, but with additional Tetris.
posted by wanderingmind (12 comments total)

Yo Dawg! -- I generally like it as a concept, and feel like it could be explored a bit further. Maybe providing additional controls for each screen, or making it more uhhh playable as the number of screens increases. I realize that wasn't really the point of the exercise, but I could see a 'real' game somewhere in here.
posted by Literaryhero at 12:24 AM on April 19, 2024

Stressfull, but not quite at Helltris levels.
posted by Harald74 at 1:21 AM on April 19, 2024

IDK it plays like regular Tetris to me. Blocks go down, I panic completely - "you're a game developer, this should be easy for you" - I confuse the buttons for rotate - what is "rotate left" anyway - I accidentally drop the block somewhere random - I make a impossible to salvage tower of misplaced blocks - the game ends.
posted by Zarkonnen at 3:11 AM on April 19, 2024 [4 favorites]

This is far too much tetris.

[High score: 9]
posted by mhoye at 5:59 AM on April 19, 2024 [1 favorite]

I got one extra screen, smirked, and closed the window. I've never invested enough time in getting okay at Tetris to feel like this creates an amusing challenge.
posted by egypturnash at 8:27 AM on April 19, 2024 [1 favorite]

High score: 15, with 6 open windows. Not sure if I like this yet.
posted by hanov3r at 8:37 AM on April 19, 2024

started the game, was like "why does it say 'oh no' tho", put together a nice clean clear, immediately said "oh no" to myself

A+++ would be plunged immediately into despair again
posted by cortex at 9:04 AM on April 19, 2024 [2 favorites]

I'm not sure I need a game that makes me feel bad about myself.
posted by aramaic at 9:17 AM on April 19, 2024 [1 favorite]

That'd make a really fun puzzle if the pieces didn't auto advance. I can about handle three screens if I get the pieces staggered well enough, it's made significantly harder by the pieces being completely random.
posted by lucidium at 11:14 AM on April 19, 2024

Extremely neat, but I got to 4 and decided that was enough Neltris.
posted by ob1quixote at 12:17 PM on April 19, 2024

17. Baba is done, brain is fried.
posted by lucidium at 12:49 PM on April 19, 2024

Site is fried.
posted by zardoz at 12:54 PM on April 19, 2024