# Install vitetris with Homebrew, apt, Nix, zypper, winget

Terminal-based Tetris clone. Version 0.59.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install vitetris.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:vitetris
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vitetris
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install vitetris
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: vitetris from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#vitetris
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/vi/vitetris/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install vitetris
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: vitetris from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id DarkFlame774.Tetris -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: DarkFlame774.Tetris from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:vitetris
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.59.1
- **Source summary:** Terminal-based Tetris clone
- **Homepage:** <https://www.victornils.net/tetris/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/vicgeralds/vitetris>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- tetris (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.59.1
## Project history and usage

vitetris is a terminal-based falling-block puzzle game by Victor Nilsson Geraldsson. Its gameplay aims to resemble early Nintendo Tetris games, with configurable controls, a high-score table, two-player garbage mode, network play, and optional joystick support.

The project occupies a durable niche among text-mode games: it is small, portable, and designed for Unix-like terminals while also having ports to Windows and DOS.

### Project history

The official homepage presents vitetris as a classic terminal game with minimal library requirements and several compile-time optional features. The GitHub README describes it as a virtual-terminal clone with rotation, scoring, levels, and speed modeled after early Nintendo versions, plus a short lock delay for higher-level play.

FreshPorts records the FreeBSD port as added in September 2008 at version 0.51, which shows the project had already crossed into operating-system package collections by the late 2000s. The GitHub releases page lists later 0.57 and 0.58 series releases and a 0.59.1 release in December 2020.

### Adoption history

vitetris did not become a large platform project; its adoption history is the quieter history of a stable terminal game that package collections can carry for years. FreeBSD, Homebrew, Debian-family, Nix, and other package ecosystems have all treated it as a useful small game package.

Its continued issue traffic and maintenance around portability, controls, and older platforms reflect a project used by people who value terminal-native games and retro behavior more than graphical effects.

### How it is used

Users run the packaged `tetris` or `vitetris` executable in a terminal. The game supports one-player play, two-player play on the same machine, and network play where both players can choose level and height.

The project is also useful as a lightweight terminal test case: it exercises keyboard input, screen updates, terminal sizing, color or appearance choices, and optional platform-specific features without requiring a graphical stack.

### Why package nerds care

vitetris is package-nerd catnip because it is exactly the kind of tiny, portable C program that survives across package managers: low ceremony, useful offline, and fun enough to justify keeping around.

Its significance is not broad industry adoption but the preservation of a polished text-mode game in Unix package culture.

### Timeline

- 2008: FreeBSD added a vitetris port at version 0.51.
- 2019-2020: The GitHub project tracked active issues and maintenance in the 0.57 and 0.58 release series.
- 2020: GitHub releases list version 0.59.1 as the latest release in December 2020.

### Related projects

- vitetris belongs to the same terminal-game tradition as other curses or console puzzle games, but its README specifically anchors the gameplay feel to early Nintendo Tetris rules.
- The project has optional relationships with terminal libraries and gamepad support, but its official page emphasizes that the core can remain minimal.

### Sources

- batch input source_facts.description and current_curation.tags
- <https://github.com/vicgeralds/vitetris>
- <https://github.com/vicgeralds/vitetris/releases>
- <https://www.freshports.org/games/vitetris>
- <https://www.victornils.net/tetris/>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - vitetris - 0.59.1-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: vitetris from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Virtual terminal *tris clone | https://www.victornils.net/tetris/
- Nix - vitetris: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/vi/vitetris/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - vitetris - 0.59.1-2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: vitetris from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Virtual terminal *tris clone | https://www.victornils.net/tetris/
- zypper - vitetris - 0.59.1-3.7: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: vitetris from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Terminal-based Tetris clone | http://victornils.net/tetris/
- Nix - tetris: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/te/tetris/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - DarkFlame774.Tetris: installed executable or alias match | Windows Package Manager source index: DarkFlame774.Tetris from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/vitetris.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/vitetris.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph