Procedural stage pressure
Authored level profiles remix into seeded boards with bands, diamonds, lattice, moving rows, steel blockers, and score-target stages.
Synthwave arcade roguelite
Brickwave '84
A neon brick-breaker where every run starts from a tape ID, every stage remixes the board, and every capsule can turn a clean save into score-chasing arcade chaos.
- Seeded
- Deterministic runs
- 36
- Capsule definitions
- 16
- Run upgrades
Loaded cabinet
Every run asks for a different kind of nerve.
Capsules with teeth
Grab wide paddles, shields, lasers, chain lightning, phase balls, and score surges while dodging reverse controls, blackouts, lag spikes, and split rails.
Glitched stages
Warp gates, blacklight bricks, gravity pockets, laser rain, VHS tears, mirror grids, and flicker bricks change the board under your hands.
Core loop
Set the tape, clear the board, build the run.
01
Pick a seed, difficulty, score mode, modifier bias, drop pool, Capsule Party, and theme.
02
Serve one or more balls into a generated stage and route the paddle through capsule drops and hazards.
03
Clear the objective, choose one permanent upgrade from a deterministic draft, and carry the build forward.
Run shaping
Dial in the kind of arcade night you want.
Casual, Standard, Brutal
Starting lives, paddle width, ball speed, brick toughness, drop odds, and early ecosystem pressure all move with the preset.
Classic or High Score
Play traditional survival or keep the score climbing through life penalties, speed scaling, bank shots, combo spikes, and target-score stages.
Classic, Neon Forge, Sunset Circuit
Theme selection recolors the backdrop, walls, paddle, bricks, pickups, ball, and UI chrome for a different cabinet mood.
Missiles, shields, lasers, drafts
Fire Brick Missiles into stubborn clusters, stack shield saves, route laser volleys, and draft permanent upgrades between stages.
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Drop into the cabinet.
Take on seeded stages, chase risky capsule stacks, and see how far a permanent build can carry you through the neon static.