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Blockmania: block puzzle roguelike released for Linux

Blockmania is now available with native Linux support on Steam.

The game is a block puzzle roguelike: you place pieces on an 8×8 board, clear rows and columns, and score with Chips × Mult. It costs €6.99, with a 15% launch discount (€5.94).

Between rounds you buy Jokers that bend the rules and upgrade the pieces in your own bag. There are 12 rounds across three acts with bosses, plus a Daily Run, Overtime and an Endless mode.

BLOCKMANIA starts as the block puzzle everyone knows: three pieces in your tray, an 8×8 board, fill a row or a column and it clears. Then it gets out of hand.

Every piece comes from your own bag, and you can upgrade it: chrome that pays Chips, neon that adds Mult, gold that prints Credits, glass that shatters for a multiplier. Between rounds the Toybox sells Jokers, 70 rule-bending cards that grow with every clear, copy their neighbours, pay you for patience or double everything the others do. Each placement is scored as Chips × Mult, and every number is itemized on a receipt, so you always know why a move was worth 12 points or 12 million.

Survive 12 rounds across three acts. Each act ends with a boss that rewrites one rule.

70 Jokers, 4 of them Legendary

Five Kits: different starter bags and signature rules (Standard, Compact, High Roller, Chunky, Tetromino), unlocked by playing.

Daily run: one seed a day, with the same pieces, shops and bosses for everyone.

Overtime: beat round 12 and keep going. Targets explode, and the only way out is losing, or scoring one quadrillion points in a single placement and breaking the machine.

Blockmania screenshot

Source: Steam

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