Blockout 3D

Blockout 3D is the falling-block puzzle played somewhere it was always meant to be: inside a real glass well, eight cubes wide and fourteen tall, rendered in genuine 3D with a tumbling camera-friendly view, a translucent ghost piece projected onto the stack, and the next piece waiting on a preview pedestal. The seven classic tetrominoes fall one at a time, and your job is the eternal one — pack them so tightly that complete horizontal rows form and clear, because a stack that touches the top ends the game.

One honest clarification, because the name has history: the 1989 arcade game Blockout moved pieces in three dimensions. This version is a simplified well-plane variant — pieces fall and are placed in the 2D plane of the well, with the third dimension given to the presentation: chunky individual cubes, real lighting and depth, not flat tiles on a grid. What you think in is the classic 2D puzzle; what you look at is a physical object dropping into a glass box, and the ghost piece — which shows exactly where the falling piece will land — makes placement feel satisfyingly mechanical.

Scoring follows the classic table with a level twist: clearing 1, 2, 3 or 4 rows at once pays 100, 300, 500 or 800 points, all multiplied by your current level. Every 10 lines raises the level and the falling speed with it. Small change adds up too — soft-dropping earns a point per step, and a hard drop earns two points per cell travelled — so decisive play literally pays. Wall kicks let a rotation succeed even against the well's sides, and a brief lock delay after landing gives you a last instant to slide or spin a piece into place.