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Idle Breakout
Idle Breakout is credited on Poki to Kodiqi. Poki says it “started as a Breakout-style game, then grew into an idle game” and was first published in January 2019; the Poki page itself is dated 22 June 2023. A click on a brick pays $1 of game money, and a ball does the same work without you.
Open Idle Breakout at poki.com
Facts checked 10 November 2026 in the game and on its host’s page
The first clicks in Idle Breakout
The game loaded by itself onto a wall of 100 blue bricks, 5 columns by 20 rows, each marked 1. The top bar read 0/50 Balls, Level 1 and Upgrades, with a money line that already showed $24 before we touched anything. We found no explanation for that head start.
A click on a brick marked 1 removes it and pays $1: 2 clicks took the counter from 24 to 26. Poki’s text explains the marks: “Every brick on the screen has a number showing how many hits it takes to break.” At $26 two ball buttons appeared in the corner.
- $25 a Basic Ball: “Standard ball that bounces off walls and breaks bricks”, speed 1, power 1
- $50 the first Click upgrade, from 1 to 2
- $100 Basic Ball speed, from 1 to 2
- $200 a Plasma Ball, with splash damage of 25% to bricks
- $250 Basic Ball power, from 1 to 2
The second Basic Ball cost $38 and the third was priced at $56. Poki’s text states the rule without numbers: “Each time you buy the same ball again, its price goes up.” Poki also lists first prices for the 4 later balls: Sniper Ball $1,500, Scatter Ball $10,000, Cannonball $75,000 and Poison Ball $75,000.
With one ball and no clicks, the counter went from $6 to $24 in about 20 seconds. Later the same ball earned more slowly, because it kept bouncing through the gap it had already cleared.
Idle Breakout with the tab closed
Neither the game nor Poki’s text says what happens while the tab is closed, and we did not test it.
On saving, the game is unusually direct. Its settings screen carries a warning in a red frame: “Save file uses local browser storage. Use Export to backup your progress”. Export and Import buttons sit under it, next to a large one marked Wipe All Data. The footer read “Game Saved 2 seconds ago”.
Levels and prestige in Idle Breakout
A level is cleared when every brick is gone, and Poki says the next one “brings tougher bricks that need more hits”. We found no source for a last level.
The reset is called prestige. In Poki’s words it “means starting over so you can earn faster next time”: level and cash return to zero and you are paid gold for permanent perks, but “You only get gold every 20 levels”. Poki counts 5 perks, 13 achievements and 24 skills. We reached none of them, and what the line marked BB on the top bar counts is not verified.
What Idle Breakout sells
We saw no purchases anywhere in the game. Poki links no store edition, though its text says an Android and iOS app exists; those listings were not looked up.
No button offered a reward for a video on the 3 screens we opened: the wall, the upgrades and the settings. The settings have a switch named Bonus Alerts. We did not see a bonus alert, so what one offers is not verified. Poki mentions a gold brick and timed power-ups that are unlocked “by breaking more bricks, starting at 600 bricks”; those are earned in play.
The Poki page had 2 slots marked Advertisement, both empty boxes on our screenshot, and no video advert played before or during the 2 minutes of the check. It ran from Thailand; adverts served in the UK were not seen.
Age rating for Idle Breakout
No store rating was found, because Poki links no store edition. Poki’s rules, in the version served outside the UK, put the site at 16 and older, and the UK wording was not read.
There is little on the screen to rate: a beige field, blue bricks and coloured balls, with no characters and no chat.
What Idle Breakout shows on screen
Each ball has a small panel with its own count of Damage Done; ours went from 5 to 23 while we watched. The cap on the top bar, 0/50 Balls, limits how many can be in play. The Upgrades window also has a Delete button for removing a ball.
The frame of the game is titled “Created with GameMaker Studio 2”. Poki gives 2 dates that do not sit in order, a publication date of 22 June 2023 and an update date of 2 June 2023.
Poki’s page showed 39,973 likes and 7,081 dislikes; its page data gives 4.4 out of 5 from 47,054 votes, with no period named.
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