Breakoid: a paddle, a ball and rows of blocks

How a level of Breakoid goes

The title screen has 4 round buttons: Play Level 1, All levels, Endless Mode with power-ups and Create a level. Level 1 is 9 blocks in 3 rows of blue, yellow and pink. A click sends the ball up, and from then on the paddle tracks the mouse from side to side.

Let the ball past the paddle and the level stops. A red cross appears under the words "Level 1", next to a retry button and a padlocked button for level 2. There is no spare ball and no offer to carry on.

On 11 November 2026 we knocked out 5 of the 9 blocks before the ball got by, all inside 35 seconds. Halfway through, the paddle turned wider and a row of small triangles appeared along the bottom edge; we cannot say what set that off. Poki promises power-ups that "expand your paddle, launch extra balls, or blast columns".

Controls that worked in our check

Mouse

Moves the paddle left and right. A click launches the ball.

← →

Held for 1.2 seconds before the launch, the left arrow did not move the paddle. Poki lists no keys.

D

Held for 1.2 seconds, it did nothing either.

On a phone, Poki says, you tap the paddle and then swipe. We did not try it. The gear at the top of the game opens 2 switches, Sound Effects and Music, and nothing else. A house button on the result screens returns to the title.

What Breakoid costs and where adverts sit

The game is free on Poki. We found no shop, no coins and no button offering a reward for an advert: not on the title screen, in level 1, in Endless Mode, in the editor or under the gear. Poki links no app-store edition.

The Poki page has 2 places marked "Advertisement", one in the right column and one under the game. Both stayed empty in our screenshots. No video ran before the game or between our attempts in about 4 minutes of play. We were connected from Thailand, so the adverts a UK visitor gets were not seen.

Account, saved progress and age rule

The game starts without an account. A cleared level opens the next, and Endless Mode remembers a personal high score; whether either is still there after the tab closes is not verified. Poki's help pages say a guest's progress lives in browser cookies, which private browsing can wipe.

No store edition is linked, so there is no PEGI or App Store rating to quote. What remains is the rule of the host: 16 and older in the version of Poki's rules served to us outside the UK. The UK wording is unread. On screen there are blocks, a ball and a paddle, with no people, no chat and no other players.

20 levels, an endless score and a level editor

All levels opens a page of 20 numbered circles. Only level 1 is open at first, and the other 19 carry padlocks. A line under the grid reads "Finish all levels to unlock next page", which points to a second page; the total number of levels is not verified.

Endless Mode counts points at the top left. Our run climbed 0, 110, 330, 450 and stopped at 560 in under 40 seconds. The closing card marked it as a new personal high score, above a Play again button and a share icon. We saw no online table.

Create a level opens a grid with 4 block shapes, 3 colours, an eraser and a play button. We found no way to publish a level for other players.

Who made Breakoid

Poki credits the game to supernice.games and notes that this is the studio's first game on the portal. Its text calls Breakoid "a new take on the classic block-breaker / Arkanoid game genre". The page gives no country and no team size for the studio, and we found no other source for either.

The genre goes back to Atari's Breakout, an arcade game of 1976, and Taito's Arkanoid followed in 1986, according to Wikipedia. Breakoid borrows neither name nor their artwork: its blocks hang under a sunset sky above a glowing grid floor.

Poki added its copy on 15 July 2022. The game file was last updated on 9 August 2022, and Poki's page record was touched again in April 2026.