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About Curveball Brick Breaker

Curveball Brick Breaker is a free brick-breaking game on Playdonya that runs in any modern browser, on a phone or a desktop. The goal is classic: keep the ball in play and smash every brick on the board. What makes it different is the paddle. It is curved like a shallow bowl turned upside down, so the exact spot where the ball lands decides the angle it flies off. Hit it near the middle and the ball goes almost straight up; catch it near an edge and it leaves at a sharp angle. Once you get a feel for the curve you can aim your shots.

From level two, glowing gravity wells appear on the board. They pull the ball as it passes and bend its path into arcs, which can send it around a wall of bricks or into a gap you could not reach in a straight line. Later boards add tough bricks that need several hits, metal bricks that never break, and explosive bricks that set off chain reactions. Every few levels a boss block appears: it has its own health bar and switches between moves such as drifting, charging sideways, raining sparks that stun your paddle, and summoning fresh bricks.

Broken bricks sometimes drop power-ups: a wider paddle, a slower ball, twin lasers, a sticky paddle that catches the ball, multi-ball, and the rare extra life. Hitting several bricks in a row without the ball returning to your paddle builds a combo multiplier, and the sound climbs in pitch as the chain grows.

On touch screens, drag anywhere to move the paddle and tap to launch. With a mouse, just move it. On a keyboard, use the left and right arrows or A and D, and Space to launch. Tip: if the ball slips above the bricks it will rattle around up there, scoring a long chain, so aim for gaps at the sides.