Tetris® Forever news & patch notes

Updates to Tetris Time Warp:

• Blast Off To Level 30: The single-player modes in Tetris Time Warp, which previously topped out at Level 15, now go all the way to Level 30! Can you handle even higher speeds of play? Starting at Level 20, the Time Warp Tetrimino piece will no longer feature the golden-colored Tetrimino, so you won't be able to create Matrix-clearing cascades. And starting on Level 28, the lockdown speed of Tetriminos will greatly increase.
• Time Warp Shield: In Tetris Time Warp's multiplayer mode, the Time Warp Tetriminos now have a new power – Shield! Clear a line including a Time Warp Tetrimino while the Shield design is showing, and you'll earn a Shield that will stop other players from sending you into a Time Warp. It disappears after being used once.
• 1989 Mode Upgrades: Enjoy playing Tetris with black-and-white graphics and chiptune sounds? 1989 Mode, a single-player mode found within Tetris Time Warp, now has a variety of fixes and new options. You can choose to turn off "Modern Gameplay" and experience more historically accurate gameplay. You can also optionally choose to play the game with 18 rows in the Matrix, as opposed to the modern-day setting of 20 rows.
• Take the 40-Line Challenge: Celebrate Tetris's 40th anniversary by trying to clear 40 lines as quickly as you can. Playable in both Modern and 1989 modes.
• Options, Options, Options: A vastly expanded Options menu lets you customize the visuals, sounds, and gameplay in Tetris Time Warp to your liking. Turn individual graphic effects on or off, tweak your gameplay with new options like the Initial Hold and Initial Rotation systems, Diagonals, and more.
• Many other bug fixes, tweaks, and minor changes to all modes to improve the Tetris Time Warp experience.

New MS-DOS Games:

• Super Tetris: Released by Spectrum Holobyte in 1991, this was an early attempt at creating a "sequel" to Tetris. The gameplay is quite different — the Matrix is half-full of garbage when a game begins, and players can earn and use Bombs to clear out the spaces and find power-ups buried in the garbage. It includes Cooperative and Competitive multiplayer modes, in which two players play in the same Matrix!
• Tetris (AcademySoft) v. 3.12: A historically important inclusion, this is the final version of Tetris created within the Soviet Union in the Academy of Sciences, ported from Alexey Pajitnov's original Pascal code by Vadim Gerasimov. Dating to 1988, it is notable for its inclusion of Phantom mode, in which all O-Tetriminos (square-shaped pieces) are invisible!

Steam Community Items

• Earn new trading cards, badges, backgrounds and emoticons by playing Tetris Forever.

Other Updates:

• The gameplay behaviors in the recreation of the Electronika 60 version of Tetris have been updated to be even more historically accurate to the original version.
• Now includes language support for Korean and Traditional Chinese.
• Many other minor tweaks, bug fixes, and enhancements have been made to improve the gameplay experience.

Hello, Tetris players! Our latest update brings a few small but important improvements to Tetris Forever, some of which have been specifically added as a result of player feedback. First, we're excited to announce an update to the way game progress is saved in certain games. For console games that originally had battery backup – meaning that high scores, player profiles, and game progress were saved between play sessions – the versions in Tetris Forever now work the same way. If you leave or reset the game, your progress will be retained, without having to use the Save/Load features in the in-game menu. As you work your way through the challenging campaigns of games like Tetris 2 + Bombliss on Famicom or the various modes of Super Tetris 3, you'll be able to retain your profiles and progress with ease.. Additionally, the high score leaderboards for two MS-DOS games will also be persistent between game sessions, recording your accomplishments for all eternity. The games with these upgraded save features are: Famicom:

• Igo: Kyū Roban Taikyoku
• Tetris 2 + Bombliss

Super Famicom:

• Super Tetris 2 + Bombliss
• Super Tetris 2 + Bombliss Genteiban
• Super Tetris 3
• Super Bombliss

MS-DOS:

• Tetris (AcademySoft)
• Tetris (Spectrum HoloByte)

Also of interest to MS-DOS players, we've expanded the graphics modes for Tetris (AcademySoft), Tetris (Spectrum Holobyte), and Welltris. Choose the Game Settings option in the in-game menu, and you'll be able to select from display settings including CGA, EGA, VGA, Tandy, and Hercules, depending on the game. We know some players grew up with these specific visual settings, so we wanted to present them as accurately as possible. MS-DOS games now also have key-repeat functionality, so holding down a button will now result in repeated presses (letting you slide a Tetrimino piece without having to repeatedly press the key, for example). You may spot a few other bug fixes as well, including a fix for the Apple II score reset issue, as well as for the haptic feedback settings during multiplayer games of Tetris Time Warp. And we're far from done! Today's update is just the appetizer – we are working on even more improvements for Tetris Forever and Tetris Time Warp, and we'll have more information on that soon. Thanks for your continued support!

The team remains hard at work on Tetris Forever, a playable celebration of Tetris released in commemoration of the popular game’s 40th anniversary. This update today includes a new playable game and player-requested features. NEW GAME Welltris (Spectrum Holobyte, MS-DOS) The first follow-up to Tetris created by Alexey Pajitnov, Welltris is a beloved variant in which Tetriminos (and other shapes) fall down four sides of a well. TETRIS TIME WARP All players can now individually remap their controls in Tetris Time Warp, the new four-player Digital Eclipse game included in Tetris Forever that has proven to be a hit with both casual and competitive players. Control remapping was the most requested feature change from players. WHAT'S NEXT? It is our goal to continue to improve and expand on Tetris Forever with more games and features. The teams at Tetris and Digital Eclipse continue to explore adding new games to the collection, as well as addressing further feature requests and reported issues. The team’s next priority is to address an issue in some classic games which prevents users from saving or registering high scores, which we expect to issue a fix in early 2025. We're also working on a larger update to Tetris Time Warp, adding a variety of new features and modes based on player feedback, which we're aiming to also release in 2025.

Many thanks for all the feedback since the launch of Tetris Forever. We're investigating bugs and evaluating suggestions, but the improvements based on your input start right now. And input is the right word! Today's update allows custom control configurations for all games in Tetris Forever, including the MS-DOS, Apple II, and Electronika 60 versions. To reassign the controls for each game, open the Pause menu during gameplay and select Controls. We'll continue to monitor the forums for feedback -- thanks for taking the time and effort to reach out. Look for more updates soon!