I never imagined I’d like playing Tetris on the command line, on a terminal on my phone (termux), but here I am!

I couldn’t find any Tetris app on fdroid, and just checked if pkgs had one. Lo and behold! It asked me to run pkgs install vitetris, and when I did, the tetris command was there to launch the game.

It’s a two step process, as opposed to just launching an app, but it is very lightweight, no tracking, and FOSS.

For anyone with termux already installed and feeling a bit nostalgic, might be worth trying it out.

  • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    You did not ask for an alternative but just for visibility because its awesome: a great tetris clone is Techmino. It is on Github and I am getting it via Obtainium.

  • krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    also try running the command ssh playnetris.com, it’s a server that allows you to play tetris by yourself or online with strangers

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    Have a look at netris also, open source multiplayer tetris that you can play by sshing into playnetris.com (or your own self hosted server

    On termux you have to rebind the rotate buttons as they don’t have a default value but on a pc they do

    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      that’s a good thing. Tetris is tetris.You code in all the rules, and you’re done. any updates made in the last decade would be the types that “improve the user experience” such as allowing you to pay real money to double your chances of getting the l tetromino, a subscription which would remove the unskippable ads you get after every game, and a microtransaction that allows you to pay to play more than one game per day

  • 257m@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Nethack is also available on termux. I like to play on my Chromebook when at school.

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      1·
      1 year ago

      I do not. The UX is mediocre and while it says it uses the 7-bag system, it doesn’t do that, at all.