Tetris Effect coming Xbox Series X and Xbox One with multiplayer – Polygon

Tetris Effect is pertaining to Xbox, designer Enhance Games revealed Thursday throughout the Xbox Games Showcase. The game will be offered on Xbox One and Xbox Series X with Smart Delivery, and through Xbox Game Pass, this vacation season when Microsofts next-gen console launches. The brand-new variation is called Tetris Effect: Connected, and its bringing a multiplayer experience to the mind-bending puzzle game along with the entire single-player campaign.

In 2019, Enhance Games and the Tetris Co. revealed a Windows PC variation of the game– “the supreme version” with “expanded game and graphical options.”

Tetris Effect was initially released in 2018 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR. Its an iteration on the initial Tetris, which is, basically, a test of fitting brightly-colored blocks into tight areas. Tetris Effect keeps this principal, but extremely alters the aesthetic with fancy, blissful visuals and sounds. We believe its “the very best Tetris video game given that the initial” and one of the finest video games of 2018.

The new Connected content will stay exclusive to Xbox for months. In summer 2021, a growth for Tetris Effect will bring the multiplayer mode, as a free upgrade, to PlayStation 4, Windows PC by means of Epic Games Store, and the Oculus Quest. Gamers will have the ability to take part in new modes, like Zone Battle, which “shocks traditional 1-on-1 Tetris gameplay via the time-stopping Zone mechanic made famous in Tetris Effect,” according to a news release. In the Connected mode, up to three players can play together “as one” in a single, linked Tetris playfield with “increasingly-challenging CPU-controlled managers.”

Cross-play will be available between all Xbox platforms.