Tetris 99 2019

About this game

Tetris as a battle royale: 99 players at once, and the last board standing wins, in this 2019 game for the Switch, free to anyone with Nintendo Switch Online. Your well sits in the middle and the other 98 are tiny grids down the sides, with no high scores, only survival. Clearing lines sends garbage, grey rows, to an opponent, more for a tetris or a T-spin, and you choose whom: at random, whoever is attacking you, whoever is near death, or whoever holds badges, which are earned by finishing a player off and multiply your attack up to double. The speed rises as the field thins. Maximus Cup weekends dressed the game in other games' themes, and a paid download added offline modes, a marathon and 98 bots to beat. It needs the subscription and the servers, which it still has today.