Blackout Bricks

A paddle-and-ball brick-breaker fought in total darkness — every hit lights the room for a heartbeat while aliens above rain fire on your platform.

How to play

Bounce the ball off your paddle to smash every brick on the wall — but the screen is black. Each brick hit, enemy shot and kill flashes a brief glimpse of where things are, so you play by memory and reflex. Clear the wall to advance; the levels never stop escalating.

• Clear all bricks to finish a level and rebuild a tougher wall.
• You have three balls — lose one each time the ball slips past your paddle.
• Your platform has its own health bar; alien fire chips it down, though it slowly self-repairs.
• It's over if you run out of balls or your platform is destroyed.

Controls

• Desktop: move the paddle with the mouse or the left/right arrow keys; click or press Space to launch the ball; Space also pauses, and Esc releases the mouse.
• Phone & tablet: fully touch-enabled — drag to slide the paddle and tap to launch the ball.

Tips & strategy

• Listen and watch the flashes — the audio pings and momentary light tell you where the ball and enemies sit.
• Keep the ball moving through fresh bricks; each impact buys you another snapshot of the board.
• The ball destroys any alien it touches, so aim a rebound upward to thin out the gunners.
• Let your platform recover between volleys instead of taking constant fire — its slow regen only helps if you dodge.

About Blackout Bricks

Blackout Bricks is an original free browser game that fuses the classic paddle brick-breaker with echolocation and a top-down siege. It's built in-house, plays in any modern browser, and needs no download.

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