Brickout

v1.0

Smash boring webpage text as bricks. Break them all.

1

Press & Drag

Hold the button below, then drag it up to your browser's bookmark bar and release.

No bookmark bar? Press Ctrl + Shift + B to show it

2

Open any page, click the bookmark

Open any webpage and click the bookmark — a brick-breaking game overlays the page. The text on the page becomes the bricks, and they really disappear when you smash them.

CONTROLS

Gameplay

  • Mouse
    Position the paddle
  • Click
    Launch ball
  • Scroll
    Scroll to find more bricks

System

  • Mid Click
    Toggle stealth mode
  • ESC Right Click
    Pause game / Exit
  • Click
    Resume (when paused)

RULES

POWER-UPS

Smashing bricks may drop power-ups — catch them with the paddle to activate. Green power-ups are buffs, red power-ups are debuffs.

Multi-Ball

Every ball on screen splits into three

Widen

Paddle gets longer

Sticky

Ball sticks to the paddle — click to aim and launch

Enlarge

Ball doubles in size — easier to hit

Shrink

Paddle gets shorter

Speed Up

All balls speed up by 25%

Shrink Ball

Ball halves in size — harder to hit

Losing a life resets paddle width, ball size, and ball count to their defaults.

ABOUT BREAKOUT

In 1976, Atari's Nolan Bushnell wanted a single-player version of Pong — instead of two players batting a ball back and forth, one player would hit it against a wall. That's how Breakout was born. Even more interesting: the original hardware prototype was built by Steve Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak, before Apple was even founded. Wozniak later took everything he learned building Breakout — color graphics, game controller ports — and packed it all into the Apple II, directly shaping the future of personal computing.

In 1986, Taito built on this foundation with Arkanoid, adding power-ups and special bricks that launched the golden age of the genre.

Brickout takes this 50-year-old classic and brings it to your browser — turning the webpage you're reading into the level. Every site has a different text layout, so every session has a different brick arrangement — your reading list is your infinite supply of levels.

Changelog

v1.0 2026.03

Game released — break any text on any webpage.