XTRIS is a fast-paced arcade-style Playdate game you won’t be able to put down

I love a game that screams things like “neato!” and “godlike!” while I’m 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 XTRIS are definitely not godlike, but there’s just something about that classic arcade announcer voice that makes me think each time, “this is the one where I’ll finally crack the leaderboard.” (It never is).

XTRIS is a $3 game by Fletch Makes Stuff that’ll have you chasing a moving X around a board made up of either four, five or six tiles. The timer’s 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.