Best Free Breakout Game

Breakout Clones...The formula is simple: move your paddle left and right, let the ball bounce off your bat and destroy all the bricks with your ball in order to reach the next level. Collectable Powerups help you on that task.

This genre offers hundreds of clones since Atari released the original Breakout back in 1976 and Taito improved the concept with Arkanoid in 1986 with Powerups and nice pretty graphics.

Well, only a few manages it to offer enjoyable gameplay where it is simply fun to destroy the bricks…
And here i covered 6 worthwhile Breakout Games with smooth controls, good ball movement, fun powerups, good level design, nice graphics, matching sounds….

All Breakout Clones are controlled with the Mouse.

LBreakout2 is an extremely polished Breakout Clone which is originally developed for Linux but also has Windows and Mac Ports .

The game features a two player mode (local or over the internet), fine animations and graphics, excellent controls, the ability to save a game, an editor, and a turbo ball key. (Press C to make your ball real fast as long as you hold the key)

This game in its current version 2.5.1 gets regularly Level Set Updates.

So you can place the Addons in the Game Folder and expand the lifespan of this great game. Therefore the fun continues when you have already finished the 50+ Levels that are coming with the original game.

Jardinains is a very well made Breakout Clone with smooth gameplay, fine graphics and an unique feature: gnomes are coming out of  the bricks and attacking you with flower buckets and other objects.

Avoid these things because they cost you points and freezes your paddle for a sec.

Try to push the gnomes off the bricks with your ball and then let them bounce on your paddle 5 times in order to destroy them. As a sign of your victory over them they transform into a powerup which you should collect.
(or avoid if it's a Powerdown...that's nasty)

Poing! PC is a very well made variation of Breakout which alters the classic horizontal movement (left-right) into vertical movement (up-down).
While your paddle moves now up and down on the left side you also switch between the levels by simply shooting the ball through the wall on the right side. Each time your ball hits the wall it looses energy until the wall completely dissapears and let you

That way you switch between several screens to the right, but you can also bounce back to the previous screens when you miss the ball with your paddle.

Another distinct feature is that you can give your ball some spin when you slice it like in Table Tennis (When the ball takes a curve and the opponent is wondering what is going on)

Also worthwhile to check out is the excellent oldschool Shooter Millenipede from the same developer. Its a great tribute to the Classic Single Screen Shooters Centipede/Millipede.

Centipong is a crazy mix between Breakout and Centipede.
It looks like Breakout on drugs when you have collected some powerups….Swooshy Visuals + Slow Motion or Hyperfast Speed.

This time your aim is to destroy the centipedes instead of the usual bricks.
The special thing is that when you hit segments of the centipedes with a ball they transform into balls which make squishy sounds. That means that this will start a huge chain reaction and you will have a legion of balls on the screen that are swirling around on their path of destruction. Each time you hit a ball it becomes smaller until it disappears completely.
So watch out to keep the last ball alive until he brings some new balls into play. Once you have destroyed the centipedes you can miss all the balls on screen to get to the next level.

Hint: At the Title Screen you can choose on which side of the screen your paddle should be placed.

It needs some training to become good in this fast paced and pretty hard Breakout Clone. You will encounter the Game Over Screen pretty fast. But nonetheless its pretty damn good arcade fun!
Centipong Gameplay Video

Definitely also worth a try is the fantastic arena shooter Alien Deathmatch 2 by the same developer Jayenkai.

Block is a pretty insane take on the Breakout Genre. With fun Gravity-Physics that are changing in every Level (balls are attracted to the bottom and have to be pushed upwards with the paddle) and literally dozens of balls that will clear the screen very fast. Moreover you get 10 Balls in each Level and you can fire them out when you press the right mouse button... Infinite Continues. Moreover you can kick your paddle forward by pressing the left mouse button so that you can push the ball upwards.

There is also a powerup that will give you unlimited balls for a limited time which means you trigger the right mouse button so hard until the whole screen is filled with bouncing balls. Craziness! That way some levels can be completed in under 5 seconds.

Hint: Be sure to download the additional soundpack and place it into the “wave” folder to have sounds included.

DX-Ball is now over 10 years old but still a fine addition to the Breakout Genre. Fine Gameplay and good graphics make this Breakout Clone an enjoyable game.
Sometimes it can take pretty long when there is only one tiny brick left and you are trying to hit it.

Its based on the classic Amiga Game Megaball which also has become freeware status and can be downloaded here

 (Hint: Megaball is not a Windows Game. The free Amiga Emulator UAE - Win, Mac, Linux - is needed to run it.)

This game has also inspired another freeware remake called SDL-Ball.

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