The most obvious example of this is Tetris 99, the battle royale game on Nintendo Switch.Each player is locked into their own individual game that ramps up in speed until only one player remains.

Reaktor, released in October 2024, looks like a game in this genre at first glance.The big twist here is that you’re playing a game like Tetris, but with each turn, gravity moves like a windmill ...

Just nine months after a 13-year-old became the first person to "beat" the game, Tetris champions are discovering more ways to reach its theoretical endpoints and hit once-unimaginable milestones.