Play Block Five Online

You slide colored blocks around a grid, trying to line up five in a row before the screen fills up—it starts chill, then suddenly you're sweating over pixel patterns like they're life-or-death.

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Game Overview

Block Five is that kind of MS-DOS game you start playing "just for five minutes" and suddenly realize an hour’s gone. You’ve got this grid packed with bright, chunky blocks, and all you need to do is line up five of the same color—horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Sounds simple, right? Then the board starts filling up faster, and suddenly you’re leaning into the screen, muttering at pixels like they can hear you.

It’s got that perfect balance of Tetris’s urgency and Connect Four’s strategy, but with none of the modern clutter—just pure, unfiltered block-matching. The first few levels lull you into thinking you’ve got this, then the game laughs and throws a wall of mismatched colors at you. I may or may not have rage-quit a few times before figuring out the trick to clearing space early.

If you miss the days when games didn’t need tutorials or microtransactions to be fun, Block Five is a time capsule worth cracking open. Still as brutally satisfying as it was on a floppy disk.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".