Games like Tetris® Effect: Connected
If Tetris® Effect: Connected is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lumines Arise, I Know Everything and Proxy Project Ouroboros — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its feels just right, hypnotic and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Tetris Effect: Connected is a puzzle game released on Steam in 2021, developed by Monstars Inc., Resonair, and Stage Games, and published by Enhance. Players can experience a wide variety of single-player modes alongside robust online multiplayer and cooperative options, with classic Tetris mechanics including 4-piece previews, hard drops, hold pieces, T-spins, and a Journey Mode. The game is verified to run on Steam Deck and is priced at $39.99. Reviewers note that players describe the experience as hypnotic, immersive, and peaceful, with players reporting it gets them into the zone. Some players say it helps them manage stress and anxiety. The game holds a 94% positive rating from over 5,400 Steam reviews and a Metacritic score of 93.
About Tetris® Effect: Connected: Tetris® Effect: Connected adds an all-new robust multiplayer expansion to the huge variety of addictive and innovative single-player modes that Tetris Effect is known for, with all-new co-op and competitive online and local multiplayer modes!
Players who liked Tetris® Effect: Connected also play
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Lumines Arise
WHY THIS
Shares online multiplayer and a hypnotic mood with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Top pick for Tetris® Effect: Connected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
A mind-blowing, fiendishly addictive reinvention of the puzzle classic Lumines from the creators of Tetris® Effect: Connected, where sound pulses through your body, mind, and every block you place, triggering dazzling visuals synched to the driving beat of an infectious, eclectic soundtrack.
I Know Everything
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tetris® Effect: Connected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
In the fascinating quiz “I Know Everything” you can play against a computer player or a friend. You can test your erudition and will probably learn many interesting things from various fields, including mathematics, literature, cuisine, and astronomy.
Proxy Project Ouroboros
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tetris® Effect: Connected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
A 3D local splitscreen reimagining of the snake game (can be played single player too), as an infinite wave based score attack where you have to eat different rogue critters whose AI changes depending on the current level event in the chosen map, with deep customization in both looks and gameplay.
Puyo Puyo™ Tetris® 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tetris® Effect: Connected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Japan’s beloved puzzle game series Puyo Puyo and the world-renowned Tetris® game franchise have teamed up again to deliver even more Puyo-popping and Tetrimino-clearing fun in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.
I've Seen Everything
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tetris® Effect: Connected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
In the "I've Seen Everything" quiz, you will need to recognize what is being shown in the picture and choose the correct answer out of four options. There are several game modes: single-player mode with an AI, no opponent mode, and multiplayer mode (four players maximum).
Reaktor
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Tetris® Effect: Connected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
A modern spin on the classic block-stacking game. Features 360° block stacking, mind bending goodness. Play solo, or team up with friends in local co-op, and climb the leaderboards to fame.
Heroic Musical Chairs
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tetris® Effect: Connected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Face off against your friends and family in this epic take on musical chairs! Play locally or online as tiny wizard athletes ready to do anything to win. Special powers, dirty tricks, and dozens of crazy arenas: when the music stops, chaos begins!
Ultimate Chicken Horse
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Tetris® Effect: Connected fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
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Rez Infinite
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Reviewers of Tetris® Effect: Connected cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
The legendary action-shooter finally comes to PC, and in style! Blast your way through mind-melting visuals and amazing beats, all in your quest through cyberspace to save a world on the verge of collapse. Playable on your desktop or in fully immersive VR.
Thumper
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Reviewers of Tetris® Effect: Connected cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.
Ori and the Blind Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Reviewers of Tetris® Effect: Connected cross-mention this title as a similar play.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.
Tempest Lost
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Tetris® Effect: Connected cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Tempest Lost is a top-down Co-op Adventure shooter. You play as one of 4 commandos tasked with discovering the truth behind many of the events in Tempest Lost. Join with up to 3 other friends for action packed story told in the Tempest Lost Universe.
ActionSteam ↗Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Reviewers of Tetris® Effect: Connected cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Tetris® Effect: Connected cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
Katamari Damacy REROLL
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Tetris® Effect: Connected cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
The beloved roll-em-up game returns with fully updated graphics, completely recreated cutscenes and in full HD!
Evolution
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Tetris® Effect: Connected cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Evolution is an atmospheric arcade with elements of a runner performed in an interesting visual style, in which your task is to bring your little character to the end of each level, avoiding the many dangers that await him at every turn.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tetris® Effect: Connected at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Tetris® Effect: Connected on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Tetris® Effect: Connected on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tetris® Effect: Connected on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~75% under Tetris® Effect: Connected on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Schedule I
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Priced ~50% under Tetris® Effect: Connected on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Tetris® Effect: Connected on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tetris® Effect: Connected on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Lumines Arise
WHY THIS
Shares online multiplayer and a hypnotic mood with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
A mind-blowing, fiendishly addictive reinvention of the puzzle classic Lumines from the creators of Tetris® Effect: Connected, where sound pulses through your body, mind, and every block you place, triggering dazzling visuals synched to the driving beat of an infectious, eclectic soundtrack.
Puyo Puyo™ Tetris® 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Japan’s beloved puzzle game series Puyo Puyo and the world-renowned Tetris® game franchise have teamed up again to deliver even more Puyo-popping and Tetrimino-clearing fun in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.
Ultimate Chicken Horse
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Tetris® Effect: Connected.
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
Frequently asked about Tetris® Effect: Connected
- Is Tetris® Effect: Connected verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Tetris® Effect: Connected is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Tetris® Effect: Connected cost?
- Tetris® Effect: Connected is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Tetris® Effect: Connected have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Tetris® Effect: Connected supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Tetris® Effect: Connected?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tetris® Effect: Connected are Lumines Arise, I Know Everything, Proxy Project Ouroboros.
- Who developed Tetris® Effect: Connected?
- Tetris® Effect: Connected was developed by Monstars Inc., Resonair, Stage Games and published by Enhance.
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