Bricktide

How to play

Breakout where the bricks come for you: rows march down the screen in real time and the run ends the instant one touches your line. Keep the ball alive, hold the tide back, and learn the smash, a timed input at the moment of paddle contact that turns the ball into a piercing cannonball.

1. 1Steer the paddle and keep the ball off the floor. You get three.
2. 2Break the lowest rows before the tide reaches the red deadline above your paddle.
3. 3Time the smash to the moment the ball meets the paddle: it turns yellow and pierces the next brick, armour and all.
4. 4One press per contact. Mashing the key locks the smash out for a moment.
5. 5Break four bricks between paddle touches for an extra ball; ten pays 5x.
6. 6Clear ten rows for TIDE HELD, which pushes the whole grid back two rows.