Arcade
Ricochet
Bounce a glowing ball off your paddle to smash bricks across a designed campaign — earn stars, charge the Overdrive Burst, and unlock power-ups and skins.
How to play Ricochet
Ricochet is a brick-breaker campaign. Pick a level on the map — it always opens on Continue, right where you left off — then steer the paddle with your mouse, finger, or the ← → keys and launch the ball with a click, a tap, or Space.
The ball bounces off the walls, the bricks, and your paddle, and where it strikes the paddle sets its angle — hit near an edge for a sharp angle, near the centre for a steep one — so you aim, not just react. Clear every breakable brick to finish the level and earn one to three stars for how well you played.
The wall is more than plain bricks: some take two hits, steel ones can't be broken, explosive bricks chain-detonate their neighbours, mystery bricks drop a surprise gift, and gems shower coins to catch. Miss the ball past your paddle and you lose one of three lives.
Broken bricks drop power-ups you catch with the paddle — a wider paddle, a multi-ball, a slow-ball for free, plus Laser, Fireball, and a Shield safety-net you unlock in the shop. From World 2 a red Shrink power-DOWN also falls — it's always telegraphed and easy to dodge.
Break bricks back-to-back without touching the paddle to charge the Overdrive meter, then push your luck: cash it for a screen-shaking Ricochet Burst (press B or tap the meter) or hold it to bank a rising score multiplier — but a dropped ball resets it. Coins you earn buy ball trails, skins, paddles, and board themes and unlock new power-ups — all earned by playing, never with real money. Collect stars to open the next world, or jump into endless Arcade.
Controls
- Mouse / finger
- Move the paddle left and right
- ← → arrow keys
- Move the paddle on a keyboard
- Click / tap / Space
- Launch the ball
- B / tap the meter
- Fire the Ricochet Burst when Overdrive is charged
- Map & Shop
- Pick a level, replay for stars, or spend coins
- Restart button
- Restart the current level
Tips
- Aim with the paddle: catch the ball near its edge to send it sharply sideways at hard-to-reach bricks.
- Break bricks back-to-back without letting the ball touch the paddle to charge Overdrive — then decide: burst now for a lane-clear, or bank the meter for a bigger multiplier.
- Clear a gap up one side so the ball slips above the wall, where it ricochets around and clears bricks on its own — and aim the ball into an explosive to chain-detonate a whole cluster.
- Clear a level without losing the ball for a Perfect bonus, and replay early levels for three stars to open the next world.
- Spend coins on the sidegrade power-ups — Laser, Fireball, Shield — to change how you play, and on trails and skins just for the look; nothing in the shop costs real money.
About Ricochet
Ricochet is Navritto's take on the classic brick breaker — the paddle-and-ball arcade game in the Breakout and Arkanoid lineage — rebuilt in premium 3-D to play instantly in the browser. It's a designed campaign: three themed worlds of hand-crafted levels on a level-select map — Prism Yards, Amber Foundry, and Void Reach — each level rated one to three stars, with kind star-gates opening the next world. You launch a glowing ball into walls of colourful bricks — two-hit armour, unbreakable steel, explosive bricks that chain-detonate, mystery bricks that gift a power-up, gems that shower coins, telegraphed red power-downs you can dodge from Amber Foundry onward, and moving bricks with hopping boss cores in Void Reach. Where the ball meets the paddle decides its angle, so it rewards aim over reflex, and the signature Overdrive → Ricochet Burst meter — charged by breaking bricks without touching the paddle — is a push-your-luck choice between a screen-shaking fireball burst and a rising banked multiplier. Coins earned purely by playing buy cosmetics (ball trails, skins, paddles, and board themes) and unlock sidegrade power-ups (Laser, Fireball, a Shield safety-net) in a kid-safe shop with no real-money purchases, no loot boxes, and no timers. It reopens right where you left off, there's an endless Arcade mode for a pure high-score run, and it needs no install or account — playable with the mouse, touch, or the keyboard, filling the screen on phone and desktop, with your progress saved on your device. Ricochet joins Gummy Snake, Prism, Doubler, Lexicon, Sudoku, Skyhop, Pairs and Skyline in Navritto Games and shares the same feel — the bright board, the particle burst on every break, the little celebration on a clear — that runs through them all.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ricochet free to play?
- Yes, Ricochet is free to play in your browser with no signup and nothing to install. It's Navritto's take on the classic brick breaker (Breakout-style) arcade game, rebuilt into a designed campaign with a level map, stars, and a coin shop.
- How do you play the brick breaker game Ricochet?
- Move the paddle with your mouse, finger, or the left and right arrow keys, and launch the ball with a click, tap, or Space. Bounce the ball into the bricks to break them; where it hits the paddle sets its angle. Clear every breakable brick to finish the level and earn one to three stars.
- Does Ricochet save my progress?
- Yes. Ricochet is a campaign that saves on your device, so it always reopens on Continue at the level you reached — it never resets you to level one. Restart only replays the current level, and the level map lets you go back and replay earlier levels for more stars.
- What is the Overdrive Burst in Ricochet?
- Breaking bricks back-to-back without the ball touching your paddle charges the Overdrive meter. Once it's full you choose: cash it in for a Ricochet Burst — a fireball that ploughs through a lane of bricks — or hold it to bank a rising score multiplier. Dropping the ball resets the meter, so it's a push-your-luck decision. Fire it with the B key or by tapping the meter.
- What are the power-ups in Ricochet?
- Broken bricks drop power-ups you catch with the paddle. A wider paddle, a multi-ball, and a slow-ball are free from the start; a Laser, a Fireball that ploughs through bricks, and a one-time Shield safety-net are unlocked in the coin shop. From World 2 a red Shrink power-down also falls — it's always telegraphed and easy to dodge.
- Does the shop use real money?
- No. Ricochet's shop only spends coins you earn by playing — there is no real-money purchase, no loot boxes, and no timers. Everything is buy-once and yours forever: cosmetic ball trails, skins, paddles, and board themes, plus the extra power-ups, which are sidegrades that change how you play rather than making you stronger.
- Does Ricochet work on mobile?
- Yes. Ricochet works on phones and tablets — drag the paddle with your finger and tap the meter to Burst — and on desktop with the mouse or keyboard. The board fills the screen either way, and there's nothing to download.
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