Brick Breaker

A classic paddle-and-ball brick buster. Angle your shots off the paddle, crack multi-hit and steel bricks, dodge around unbreakable gold blocks, and catch falling capsules for wide paddle, multi-ball, lasers, slow ball, sticky catch and extra lives across 16 hand-built levels.

How to play

Launch the ball and keep it in play with your paddle. Where the ball hits the paddle sets its angle: the center sends it straight up, the edges send it off sharply. Clear every breakable brick to finish the level; colored bricks break in one hit, outlined bricks need two, steel needs three, and gold blocks never break. Catch falling capsules for power-ups. You have 3 lives, and cleared levels unlock the next one in the level select.

Controls

Move the paddle with the mouse, by dragging on touch screens, or with the arrow keys or A/D. Click, tap or press Space to launch the ball or release a caught ball. Press P or Escape to pause.

Tips and strategy

• Keep the ball away from the paddle to build combos: every 5 bricks broken between paddle touches raises the point multiplier, up to x4.
• Steel bricks are worth 200 and two-hit bricks 100 when broken, versus 50 for colored bricks, and every hit that does not break one adds 10.
• The ball speeds up slightly with every paddle hit, and a Slow ball capsule cuts its speed by more than a third for 10 seconds.
• Losing a life wipes out all active power-ups, so play it safe while you have lasers or a wide paddle.
• Finish levels with lives to spare: the clear bonus is 1000 plus 250 for each remaining life, and extra-life capsules raise you to a maximum of 6.

Brick Breaker FAQ

Privacy and saves

The game runs in your browser. Your best score and unlocked levels are saved only in this browser's local storage. In-game ads are served by Google AdSense, which may use cookies; see the Quokka Games privacy policy.

A Quokka Labs original browser game · Free to play · No download