The game Burger Tetris is a nice callback to the classic game Tetris. Both games have the same basic rules and player actions. This game begins easily enough with the player being presented with a unique shape that slowly moves towards the bottom of the screen. The player has options for what they can do with this shape. They can rotate it in 90 degree increments and move it from left and right. How to do this is a bit unclear as there are no instructions for how to do so. The player must instead use trial and error to find out how to rotate and move the shapes. This is not too difficult to find out however, especially if one is familiar with how the original game of Tetris works. The player has a limited time to choose what they want to do with the falling shape, for once the shape touches the bottom of the screen or another shape, that is where it will stay. Shapes can only be moved from their final position when the player orders the shapes in such a way that they fill an entire row. Once the row is completed, it disappears from the screen and the shapes in the rows above it move a row down. The game becomes more complicated as the player moves further into the game. As the game moves forward, the stack of shapes grows higher and higher, causing the player to have less time to find where the best place to put the new shape is and how to figure out how to get it there. The game ends when the stack of shapes reaches the top of the screen. The only goal of this game is to get a high score. The longer the player can go without the game ending and the more rows they make disappear, the higher their score will be.
The uncertainty of victory in this game comes from the player’s skill in finding the best place for the unique shapes and the type of shape that is on screen. If the player does not have much skill in placing the shapes, they may place the blocks poorly and make the game more difficult for themselves. Poor placement of shapes may cause the player to become overwhelmed later on in the game as they are unable to clear the rows and the stack of shapes only grows higher. The player can become more skilled at placing shapes however. If the player replays the game enough they can develop this skill and become better at the game. While the player is able to improve their ability to place the shapes well, it is impossible for the player to guess what shape may appear next on the screen. No matter how good the player is at the game, if a shape is unable to fit neatly in the existing stack it will most likely be placed in an awkward spot. This placement may then make it more difficult to clear the rows and make future shapes harder to place.