Ball Buster Breakout

GRAB YOUR BALLS AND GET READY TO BUST!

Ball Buster Breakout is a hyper-kinetic incremental Idle game based on the arcade classic "Breakout" with a punk zine aesthetic.

Dominate your entire screen with your balls.

Ready to go from a single bouncing ball to screen-clearing devastation? Ball Buster Breakout  is a blend of classic brick-breaking physics and idle incrementa/automation gameplay.

In this Bullet Heaven-adjacent idle game, instead of dodging the chaos, you are automating it. Your only goal? Build an autonomous engine of destruction that blankets the screen in a flashing, high-velocity torrent of balls.

AIM! FIRE! OBLITERATE! 

Purchase balls to load your cannon. Aim and fire into a grid of bricks. Every brick you destroy earns gold. Gold buys upgrades and new ball that trigger chaotic effects. Each completed wave pushes you deeper into harder territory, including boss encounters that try to prevent you from busting. DO NOT let them prevent you from busting! In this game it is your unique and unalienable right to bust.

AN ARSENAL OF 15+ UNIQUE BALLS

• Bombs, shotguns, lasers, replicators, demons, nukes, quakes and katanas OH MY!
  Your cannon is only as powerful as what you load into it. Purchase and upgrade a wide variety of specialty balls, each with its own passive ability.

Each ball type has its own dedicated upgrade tree. Increase blast radius, bullet spread, damage, speed, and special effects. Mix and match your active balls to build a loadout that suits your style.

CLICK OR LET IT IDLE

You're never just waiting. Click bricks directly to deal manual damage, or step back and let your army of balls do the work? Ball Buster Breakout runs in the background and progress never stops.

Desktop Companion Mode: Overlap & Idle

Toggle Desktop Companion mode to transform Ball Buster Breakout into the ultimate secondary-screen experience.

The game draws directly over your other active windows, letting you seamlessly work, stream, or browse while the physics engine runs in the background. Watch the chaotic destruction unfold out of the corner of your eye, step in to buy game-changing upgrades, and enjoy effortless idle progression without ever minimizing your workflow. It’s a low-stress casual idler designed to live right on your active desktop.

A HYPNOTIC GLITCH BASS SOUNDTRACK

An original Glitch Bass music soundtrack built around clicks, cracks, and collisions composed by Bobi Meijer and Lucas Schwyter.

STACKABLE POWER-UPS

Destroy special treasure bricks to unlock a rarity-tiered power-up system (Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary). When a treasure chest drops, choose between randomized cards to permanently or temporarily boost your run:

• Summon special overpowered balls, Unlock special gold-per-click bonuses...and dozens more effects across five rarity tiers

• Power-ups are stored in a deck and stackable to create overpowered combinations

WAVES, LEVELS AND BOSS FIGHTS

Work through hand-designed waves of bricks, each cleared wave pushing you to the next level. Special brick types keep things unpredictable:

• Gold Bricks: shatter them for bonus gold drops

• Bomb Bricks: chain-react and clear their neighbors

• Deposit Bricks: award gold bonuses on destruction

• AND MORE...

At milestone levels, Boss Fights interrupt the normal flow. Bosses scale in health and put your entire loadout to the test. Defeat them for major rewards and unlock the next chapter of progression.

OFFLINE PROGRESS

Ball Buster Breakout is built for the long game. Runs in the background so your balls keep bouncing even when the window is minimized. Your gold, upgrades, and progress are saved automatically via Steam Cloud.

IN GAME STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS

Unlock many achievements that reward every playstyle 

PRESTIGE SYSTEM

Reset your run for permanent meta-progression and unlock Ultimate Buffs: powerful passive bonuses that carry over across every future run, making each prestige cycle meaningfully stronger than the last.

FEATURES AT A GLANCE

• 15+ unique ball types with specialized abilities

• Per-ball upgrade trees with stat progression

• Rarity-tiered stackable power-up system (5 tiers)

• Click mechanics: manual clicks, hold to click and hover to click modes with upgradeable clicks per second

• Boss fights at milestone waves with scaled health

• Special Effect bricks: Gold, Bomb, Deposit, Treasure etc.

• Idle-friendly: runs in background, auto-saves via Steam Cloud

• Prestige "Glitch" system with meta-progression. Start over stronger!