Brickrally

The paddle does not mirror. It aims. Where the ball lands on the paddle decides the angle it leaves at — the centre sends it straight, the edges send it sharp. That one rule turns a rally from something you chase into a sequence of shots you choose. It is the only thing this game asks you to learn. HOW IT PLAYS - Drag anywhere to move the paddle, release to serve - Portrait, one hand - Bricks drop nothing. Items come from the shop and the daily stamp card; carry as many as you own into a run and fire them with the buttons under the paddle. Only the ones you use are used up WHAT IS IN IT - 100 hand-made stages that get harder as you go: a faster ball, tough bricks further down, stronger bosses. Beat all 100 and a second, tougher lap opens - Six items — Wide, Slow, Multiball, Catch, Pierce and Laser. Fire the same one again to add time. Some stages forbid items — those you beat on your own - Bombs that set each other off, steel that never breaks, rows that slide, healing bricks that grow back if you leave them, and ghost bricks that fade in and out — and 15 bosses, one every 7th stage and the 100th - In the later stages: one-way gates, switches that open doors, warp holes and mirrors - Up to 3 stars on every stage: clear it, lose no ball, beat the clock, and a stage select to go back for the ones you missed - Quit a run partway and pick it up later from the stage you left - A global leaderboard through Game Center - A score table split in two: a run that used an assist — a retry, a start partway through, or an item — is ranked apart from an unassisted one, because if an assisted run could top the list the number would stop measuring how well you played LIVES AND COINS, PLAINLY - You hold up to 5 lives. Starting a run uses one; moving on to the next stage does not. One comes back every 15 minutes, whether the app is open or not - Coins buy a life, a full refill, a retry when a run is lost, or items — one at a time, in sets of 11 for the price of 10, or in variety packs at 10% off - Clearing a stage pays 25 coins, up to 150 a day. The daily bonus adds 100 to 500, growing with your streak. Your first game each day also stamps your card, and every 7th stamp gives you a random item - Coin packs are an optional in-app purchase, for when you would rather not wait NO ADS, NO TRACKING No advertising, no analytics, no tracking, no account and no sign-in. Nothing about you is collected. Purchases and the leaderboard go through Apple; the game itself never learns who you are. READABLE AND REACHABLE - Brick toughness is shown by pips as well as colour, because roughly one man in twelve cannot tell the green from the yellow - Every item has its own icon showing what it does, not just its own colour - Text scales with your system setting - Reduce Motion turns off screen shake and full-screen flashes - Every control has a VoiceOver label 33 languages, picked from your device language or chosen in settings.