Tetris clones are nothing new. And we all knew it would only be a matter of time before more contemporary puzzle hits were emulated, much like Lumines has been in TiQal. Well, scratch that. It hasn’t been emulated so much as mated with the aforementio💯ned Tetris. And the results are…well, they’re not that bad.

TiQal’s game board features an ever-rising collection of multicolored blocks. Naturally, if said blocks reach the top of the screen before you manage to clear a certain amount, the game ends and the evil wins. Blocks are cleared by dropping more blocks into the well, creating clusters of like-colored stones, which eventually disappear. Crea𒆙te more clusters before those original block disappear to rack up big combos and earn 🐽power-ups.

Yep, that’s the one new thing TiQal brings to the party. Power-ups come in a variety of flavorsꦦ, but generally result in destroying a bunch of blocks in one fell swoop, whether it&rওsquo;s in a column, a row, or by a specific color.

TiQal is a pretty decent game, actually. The controls are extremely intuitive if you’ve ever🦩 played a puzzle game before, as you’re literally combining the skillset required to play both Tetris and Lumines. And the learning curve is so gradual that puzzle rookies will feel comfortable with𒐪 the game within a few levels.