{"id":1236249,"date":"2025-03-02T17:47:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236249"},"modified":"2025-03-02T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:47:38","slug":"xtris-is-a-fast-paced-arcade-style-playdate-game-you-wont-be-able-to-put-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236249","title":{"rendered":"XTRIS is a fast-paced arcade-style Playdate game you won\u2019t be able to put down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I love a game that screams things like \u201cneato!\u201d and \u201cgodlike!\u201d while I\u2019m feverishly pressing buttons and darting my eyes around the screen, trying to make my fingers work as fast as my brain. My skills in the Playdate<\/a> game XTRIS<\/em> are definitely not<\/em> godlike, but there\u2019s just something about that classic arcade announcer voice that makes me think each time, \u201cthis<\/em> is the one where I\u2019ll finally crack the leaderboard.\u201d (It never is).<\/p>\n

XTRIS<\/em><\/a> is a $3 game by Fletch Makes Stuff that\u2019ll have you chasing a moving X around a board made up of either four, five or six tiles. The timer\u2019s set to 60 seconds, and in that time you have to land on the X as many times as possible. Each X you collect will go tumbling dramatically off the grid and be added to your score, which is faintly displayed in the background.<\/p>\n

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If it sounds easy, it\u2019s not. The X moves fast, and as you race after your target using the D-pad to control the movement of a black square, things become increasingly intense. The music builds like an alarm that\u2019s telling you time is almost up, and flames start shooting up from the bottom of the screen. All the while, the announcer (voiced by Jordan Carroll) is shouting words of encouragement that start to feel a little ominous by the end. It\u2019s wonderfully chaotic. Despite the relatively simple presentation, XTRIS<\/em> really lives up to its promise of being a \u201cjuicy arcade action directly into the palm of your hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For each of the three levels \u2014 Tetromino, Bridge and Squiggle \u2014 you\u2019ll be able to see how other players scored, and how you stack up against them. And once you\u2019ve played a certain level a few times, you\u2019ll be shown your own score trends to see how you\u2019re improving (or plateauing). I keep telling myself, \u201cjust one more try\u201d when I finish a round, and we all know how that goes.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a Zen Mode for each level as well, so you can work on your dexterity without the time crunch and with a chiller track playing. If you poke around in the menu, you can also find some unlockable characters and symbols to switch up the appearance of the game, swapping the X for something like a frog or a slice of pizza. XTRIS<\/em> is available on the Playdate Catalog now for $3.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/xtris-is-a-fast-paced-arcade-style-playdate-game-you-wont-be-able-to-put-down-224738429.html?src=rss<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love a game that screams things like \u201cneato!\u201d and \u201cgodlike!\u201d while I\u2019m feverishly pressing buttons and darting my eyes around the screen, trying to make my fingers work as fast as my brain. My skills in the Playdate game … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}