It’s like Tetris meets Guitar Hero. Well not really. It’s certainly like Tetris meets music. Groovin Blocks, from Empty Clip Studios, has you dropping blocks to match up several of the same color and eliminate them. If you can do it in time to the beat then you get extra points multipliers. If you can’t, it’s just another block dropping game.

The game is fairly simple: get the highest score possible during the length of a song. Doing so gives you stars, stars unlock other levels, songs and power ups. When you align three or more blocks they’ll disappear and even take out some nearby blocks of the same color. You can spin the blocks or shuffle the colors around as needed. Power ups will occasionally drop and when you destroy them, they will activate. As you collect stars you unlock higher levels (up to 3) for each power up giving them a stronger effect.

The game is pretty cool and fun and the song selection is interesting. It’s mostly electronic music with varying bpm (beats per minute) and there are at least a dozen songs and three difficulties (casual, experienced and hard). The only song I recognized was I love my C-64, which made me laugh when I saw it was included.

The game gets difficult rather quickly. The Experienced level has some pretty steep goals you need to hit in order to open more songs. Hard could very well be downright impossible at times.

The blocks are pretty standard but do glow with the beat so if you’re having trouble watching the beats on the side you might try just watching the pulse of the blocks. It’s certainly challenging. I haven’t even been able to get a single star on the Hard level.

Overall, the game puts a new twist on a now classic genre by incorporating the beats into the gameplay. It’s a welcome change from the standard boring block droppers and is worth a look.

Further Screens: