99 Bricks

Tetris Clones Are 10-a-penny around these freeware parts, but 99 Bricks caught our eye with its cheery presentation and different take on the generic block-laying gameplay.

Physics play a part here, as the game's aim isn't simply to just slot falling bricks together into a pretty pattern. This time, you have no walls holding your tower in place and the aim of this game is to built the largest tower you can without it falling over, using 99 bricks.

As your tower grows, it can get tricky to keep it steady. One misplaced brick and you will be struggling to maintain the integrity of the structure, desperately trying to compensate for early mistakes by piling the other side of your tower with bricks. Usually, this sort of behaviour ends in disaster, but truly skilled players will doubtless be able to balance things out again, if they're careful and take the bricks' squishiness and bounciness into account.

Still, there is definitely a perverse pleasure to be had in seeing your carefully constructed monument fall to pieces in front of your very eyes.