Tetris Effect

A progress report on the games we just can’t quit

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Developer Monstars, Resonair, Stage Games

Publisher Enhance Games

Format Xbox One, Xbox Series

Release Out now

Somehow it’s been two years since Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s exquisite, synaesthesia-powered take on Tetris arrived with us, having seemingly been beamed down from another planet with the sole purpose of making our own a brighter, more empathetic place. (If it failed in that regard, then that’s simply because not enough people played it.) Surely, with due deference to the Game Boy edition, the finest update of Alexey Pajitnov’s classic puzzler to date, in VR it was the most enveloping