Stack 'em, clear 'em, party on. Totally offline.

A radically retro falling-block puzzle for your iPhone. Spin the pieces, slot them in, clear the rows and keep the stack out of the stratosphere, all dressed up like a plastic 1980s pocket arcade. Gnarly, huh? There are two other looks too, if you're feeling bodacious.

No ads
No sign-in
No subscription
No tracking
100% offline
iPhone only
Totally radical

Download on the App Store

Still in the lab while the last gnarly details get polished. Coming soon. Hang loose!

Want early access? Email [email protected] to join the beta.

Blockowski in the green Handheld look: a stack of olive-green blocks on an LCD-style screen with a score, level and next piece, inside a cream plastic console with a black D-pad, red A and B buttons, and STYLE and START buttons. — Totally tubular: the classic green screen.

What's inside

Three looks, all totally rad

Console, Handheld (gray, black and white, or green) and Modern. Hit STYLE and the screen, the controls and the whole plastic body change colors like it's a Saturday morning.
Old-school rules

Console-era gravity and speed-ups, classic line scoring, no wall kicks. It plays the way you remember, dude, not like some newfangled remix.
Five ways to play

Endless, Sprint, Ultra, Survival and Cleanup, each with its own high-score table and a start level from 0 to 19.
Versus the computer

Take on a bot on easy, medium or hard. Clear rows to dump garbage on its side. Don't have a cow when it does it back.
Play a friend, nearby

Two phones, side by side, no internet and no account. Clear rows to send garbage over, and the first stack to hit the ceiling loses. Eat my shorts!
A soundtrack made from scratch

Seven chiptune tracks synthesized right on your phone, no recordings. The music speeds up when your stack gets gnarly. Pick a track, turn it off, or let your own music keep playing.
Controls your way

An on-screen pad where every button buzzes differently, so you can find it by feel. Or swipe gestures, or a game controller. Left-handed layout, portrait or landscape.
Pick up where you left off

Pause, leave, or take a call and Continue puts you right back in the game. Your high scores stay on your phone. Read my lips: nothing leaves.

Pick your poison

Five ways to play

Hit START on the title screen, then use Left and Right to pick a mode. Every one keeps its own high scores, so there's always a new personal best to chase. Righteous.

Endless

Mondo marathon

Play until the stack reaches the ceiling. Start on any level from 0 to 19 if you want to skip the warm-up.
Sprint

40 lines, fast

Clear 40 lines as quickly as you can. Your best time is the only thing that counts. Where's the beef?
Ultra

Two minutes

Rack up the biggest score you can before the clock runs out. No time for a chill pill.
Survival

Garbage keeps rising

Rows of junk push up from below at a steady pace while you try to keep clearing. Stay frosty.
Cleanup

25 lines

Start on a messy board with as much garbage as you dare, then clear 25 lines. Gag me with a spoon.

Cowabunga! Every mode keeps its own score table, on your phone only.

A closer look

Press START. Party on.

Blockowski in the Console look: bright orange, red and white blocks on a black screen with faint CRT scanlines, inside a light gray controller with a black D-pad and red buttons. — Console look with scanlines. Gnarly.

Blockowski versus the computer in the Modern look: muted colored blocks stacked in the well with one gray garbage row at the bottom, and a VS Bot Hard label next to the next piece. — Versus the bot: clear rows, dump garbage.

Blockowski in black and white: white blocks on a black screen inside a black console with white A and B buttons. — Black and white. No gray area.

The Blockowski pause screen over a game in progress: a block-letter PAUSED title, score, level, lines and time, and a menu with Resume, Restart, Share and Menu plus music, effects and look settings. — Pause, share a picture, tune the tunes.

The look picker from the first-run tour: a live demo board in the Modern look with Slate, Warm and Soft color choices beneath it. — Pick your look. Switch any time.

The Blockowski Play a friend lobby on the green look: Connected to Alex, a start level control, and an I'm ready button. — Two phones, nearby, no internet.

The Blockowski high scores screen on the green look: mode tabs across the top and a list of seven Endless scores with the lines cleared beside each. — High scores, kept on your phone only.

Paid apps, just like the old days

Blockowski costs a nominal price on the App Store, and that's the whole deal. Back in the 80s you saved up for the cartridge or fed quarters to the machine, and nobody was selling your habits to a stranger in a skinny tie. A “free” puzzle game gets paid for with ads, trackers and a nagging pop-up; this one is paid for by you, so there's nothing to sell: no ads, no coins, no energy bar to wait out, no premium tier. It runs entirely on your phone with no account and no internet connection. The only time it talks to anything is when you choose to play a friend, and then it talks straight to their phone, not to a server. The music is homemade, every button buzzes differently so you can find it by feel, and your scores stay in your pocket. Bogus things stay out. Totally tubular, and totally yours.

How Blockowski actually handles your data: No internet, no servers · Linked play stays between two phones · Two permissions: Local Network and Camera · Everything saved stays on the device · No account, no profile · No third-party SDKs · Sharing is your choice · No other permissions. See the privacy policy for the full breakdown.

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