Tetris® Effect: Connected

Its appeal comes from combining Tetris with music and a Zone mechanic that temporarily stops falling pieces; solo play spans more than 30 stages, with local and online modes for playing together. The offer makes most sense if you expect to use both puzzle sessions and its cooperative or competitive options. Tetris® Effect: Connected costs $18.59 from CDKeys. Steam players rate it 94%% positive across 8,487 reviews. At $39.99 on Steam, Tetris® Effect: Connected costs $21.40 more than the offer from CDKeys, giving you a direct price comparison.

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94%Steam Reviews8.5K reviews93Metacritic/10089OpenCritic/100

Released: Aug 17, 2021

Puzzle · Multiplayer · Falling Blocks · Family Friendly · Singleplayer

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Microsoft Store·Platform:·Checked 2026-10-14~~~ $39.99~~-50%~ $19.99Buy now

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All-time low ~ $15.99across Steam & third-party stores

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Historical Low~ $19.992023-11Current Low Across Stores~ $18.59CDKeysAt its historical low now

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01About Tetris® Effect: Connected

Tetris® Effect: Connected pairs falling-block puzzles with music, backgrounds and effects that respond to play. More than 30 stages and over ten modes provide solo variety, while the Zone mechanic can stop falling pieces and help clear extra lines. Local and online options add cooperative and competitive play. Steam players rate it 94%% positive across 8,487 reviews. The Steam PC interface supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Thai. Released August 17, 2021.

Credits

Developer

Monstars Inc. · Resonair · Stage Games

Publisher

Enhance

Steam player reviews

94%positiveVery Positive8,487 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$19.992023-11-16 · Microsoft StoreBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Simplified Chinese	Yes	—	—
Traditional Chinese	Yes	—	—
English	Yes	—	Yes

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Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
French	Yes	—	—
Italian	Yes	—	—
German	Yes	—	—
Spanish	Yes	—	—
Japanese	Yes	—	—
Korean	Yes	—	—
Thai	Yes	—	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19

02Before you buy

Play modes

Steam PC offers single-player plus competitive and cooperative modes, both online and locally. Multiplayer is cross-platform, and up to three players can team up in Connected to face AI bosses.

Language and controller

Steam lists full controller support. The interface is available in ten languages; English is the only language listed with full audio.

03Frequently asked questions

Can I play solo?

Yes. Steam PC single-player includes more than 30 stages and over ten modes.

What co-op is available?

Connected is a three-player co-op mode where players join forces against AI-controlled bosses.

Does it support cross-platform multiplayer?

Yes. Steam PC multiplayer supports cross-platform play, and friends can join rooms using a Room ID.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

08/18/2021

The playtime I have on Steam is nowhere close to the amount of time I've put into this game on Xbox. When I first heard of Tetris Effect back in 2018, I was so mesmerized by the visuals the game had. Everything looked amazing, and I really wanted to try and play it. Shame I didn't have a PS4. The game had a multiplayer release on Xbox, and when I first heard about it, I bought a copy instantly, finally ready to experience the game on PC. I'm not exaggerating when I say that buying this game actually changed my life. When I bought this game I not only got to play one of my favorite games in a completely unique experience, but I managed to find an amazing community to boot. Since then, I've accomplished so much in the game, befriended lots of people, and managed to change several aspects of myself. This game has been a perfect mixture of visual, auditory, and emotional presentation, and it's given me tons of inspiration for multiple projects. If you're shrugging this game off as "just Tetris", please take a look at a playthrough. Calling this game "just Tetris" is a massive injustice to the creativity, effort, love, and time that the development team have put into this. I have been following this game for nearly a year now. I wouldn't have it any other way.Show moreShow less

54.7 hours at review338 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

08/26/2021

Good game, but the devs / publishers are the prime example of everything that's wrong with exclusivity in today's digital age. First the game launched exclusively on PS4 and PSVR , this is fine imo as many games are console exclusives and that's what separates the console ecosystem from the PC space. Then the game launched on PC , but exclusively on Epic Games Store and get this it still used SteamVR for its VR mode lol. If you thought the exclusivity train stopped there i got news for ya, it then relaunched as Tetris Effect Connected with a Multiplayer mode but exclusive to Xbox Systems and the Windows Store, this also disabled Remote Play for paying Playstation Customers due to *cough cough* contractual reasons. And now finally it launches on Steam and tries to incentivize Steam users into buying the game and getting the "Digital Deluxe" edition for free as part of their launch offer ( 4th launch lmao ). This edition contains nothing of importance in the game itself as it provides a bunch of songs and a few steam avatar walls and desktop walls which anyone can find with a quick google search. Its a damn shame really cuz the game itself is amazing and an out of the world experience in VR but i feel such practices shouldn't be supported by customers as, if it does sell well there is no guarantee the same s.h.i.t won't be pulled in future releases not only by these particular set of developers / publishers but all of them who encourage such practices and still end up with our hard earned money. Rating - Game - 10/10 Business Practices - 0/10Show moreShow less

1.4 hours at review81 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

08/22/2021

The best Tetris game since TetrisShow moreShow less

4.3 hours at review224 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

06/20/2026

Tetris Effect: Connected is broken on Deck, and the devs are ignoring the community on the problem and how it can be fixed. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1003590/discussions/0/595161397134199416/?ctp=7 The fact the game still has Verified Status would be comical, if it didn't encourage more people to spend money on a game that has been borked and subsequently abandoned by the devs. An update back in 2025 stopped the game running on higher settings (which it had been able to do without issue previously.) The community identified the cause, and even sent evidence to the dev team, only to be told they should just play on lower settings and no fix would be made available. Don't buy this game, even on a good sale. In fact, don't buy anything from an unreliable, gaslighting dev like this one. You never know when they'll completely ♥♥♥♥ up, break and abandon another game, just like this one. *NOTE: If you have bought the game, are playing on Steam Deck and NOT getting the 60FPS at HIGH settings that you SHOULD be getting, read through the thread above to see how to rollback to the version that played flawlessly before the devs broke it!* Edit: I'm going to update this review once a month, until the game gets fixed (if ever...) just so it doesn't get buried. I suggest everyone facing similar issues does the same! Update: July 24th 2026 - Last week, the devs put out an 'update' to fix the issues with Tetris Effect on Steam Deck. That 'update' was simply rolling back the game to the version that the community had told was the last version that worked. No acknowledgement they had made a mistake. No apology for ignoring the problems for 9 months. No apology for gaslighting gamers and saying the problems we'd faced were caused by us. No thanks to the community that had identified the issue, and gave them the solution, 9 months ago. And that's why I won't be changing my recommendation for this game. Does it work on Steam Deck? Yes. Is it a great game? Definitely. But actions and attitudes matter, IMHO, and the way the devs behind this game have behaved is simply unacceptable. So no, I don't recommend you buy this game, nor any other made by thiks developer. The gaming industry already has enough issues without further supporting underserving teams like this.Show moreShow less

7.2 hours at review67 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

02/09/2026

15 July: Enhance published a fix that essentially rolls back the broken TetrisEffect-Win64-Shipping.exe to the pre September 2025 build, thus you no longer need to downgrade yourself. Keeping the review negative for now, because I am still sour that they took 10 month for a roll back of a broken update. (deck@steamdeck Win64)$ ls -l TetrisEffect-Win64-Shipping.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 deck deck 83343872 Jul 15 18:11 TetrisEffect-Win64-Shipping.exe (deck@steamdeck Win64)$ sha512sum TetrisEffect-Win64-Shipping.exe 380a089d506a037b2c46d82eec7ef49a2407a05e8328958338b8accc31f64bd32b08863a5b4f9e390b9ec64770a206a76531d5087a6c9ff9694c15d84629cbec TetrisEffect-Win64-Shipping.exe 20 June: Performance is still broken on steam deck. In the meantime I verified (thanks to Falkentyne's instructions in community thread that explain how to downgrade to pre September 2025 build) that indeed the September 2025 update caused the performance regression (which brought no noticeable changes, should have been "localisation/text changes" according to developer feedback). If you really want to check out this game, you should be prepared to downgrade for performance, but make sure to leave a negative review so that eventually developers might look into it again (e.g., before the update you could have the game on high settings without stutters in main menu). --- Original review from 9th February 2026 --- This game used to run great on steam deck and I was on my way to getting all achievements and then recommending it. However, this game does no longer work great at all, now the developers recommend setting everything to minimum which makes the game ugly. And still it is too unresponsive, has occasional stutters that would prevent you from beating it. And the worst part is that the developers do not seem to care about this issue at all, it took them multiple month for a reply that basically said that yesterday's (AMD) driver update may fix the issue while simultaneously saying that the issue is not there?! Also they basically ignore almost all post and instead say that one should open support tickets, which they then also ignore. They could at least use the steam beta branch feature to seamlessly allow downgrading versions, but they do not do it. Developers/Publishers: 0/10 Game: 4/10 (judged at minimum settings (ugly) and still not running smooth) Summary: This game does NOT run great on steam deck, you have to change to minimum settings, disable vsync and then it is playable but not enjoyable, certainly not worth its price.Show moreShow less

81 hours at review64 people found this helpful

Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.