Games of the Decade - Tetris Effect is the game of all the decades

To mark the end of the 2010s, we're celebrating 30 games that defined the last 10 years. You can find all the articles as they're published in the Games of the Decade archive, and read about the thinking behind it in an editor's blog.

Tetris Effect was Eurogamer's 2018 game of the year, much to the surprise of some. Back then, I wrote about how Tetsuya Mizuguchi's music-infused masterpiece gave me hope for a brighter future. A year later, and this remarkable, everlasting game still does. This is how I know Tetris Effect is not just the best game of 2018, but one of the best games of the decade. And it'll probably be one of the best games of all the decades to come.

Tetris Effect is now my video game pick-me-up, a kind of virtual hug on demand. I play it on and off and it always makes me feel a little bit better about the world. I've played through these levels a thousand times. I've seen the fish flash in time with the "it's all connected" song a thousand times more. And yet Tetris Effect still strikes a chord. What I can't quite believe about this video game is that, 12 months later, its impact has not dulled.

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