A brick-breaker where the ball burrows through solid terrain, and your paddle angle steers the dig.
Bounce the ball off your paddle to chew through a solid field of terrain. The ball tunnels and carves channels rather than just popping bricks, and the angle off your paddle steers where it digs. Catch falling capsules for power-ups and clear the field.
Paddlestorm revisits Arkanoid, released by Taito in 1986, which took the ten-year-old brick-breaker idea and added the thing it had been missing: capsules that fall from broken bricks and change what you are.
Laser, catch, enlarge, slow and multiball each rewrite the game for as long as you hold them, so a player is constantly deciding whether a capsule is worth moving under. Some are traps — multiball in a nearly-cleared stage can leave you chasing balls into corners — and taking one means abandoning the position you were holding. Silver bricks need several hits and gold ones never break, which turns some stages into a search for the one gap that matters.
Paddlestorm is an original free browser evolution of the classic brick-breaker, turning the wall into diggable terrain. Play instantly, no download.