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Breaking Survivors

Breaking Survivors

Brick-breaking gameplay meets Survivors-like mechanics. Use your balls to destroy bricks, level up and pick upgrades to hold your ground against waves of incoming bricks and try to high score in this roguelite brick breaking game.

Released Nov 30, 2023 Developer Axel Born Platforms Windows · Linux ArcadeCasualRogue-liteScore AttackMinimalist
View on Steam ↗ $3.99 (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

89.3%positive75 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Worth the money”

— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“One of the first times I've gotten on a leaderboard in a game. I love this game fr”

— a player, Steam review · 50 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“its what it says on the tin”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

24achievements
23.3%median completion
3.0%rarest: High Shield
92.8% of players 87.5% of players 64.4% of players 63.0% of players 54.0% of players 35.3% of players 33.0% of players 31.3% of players 31.2% of players 31.1% of players 26.8% of players 24.4% of players 23.3% of players 22.4% of players 19.6% of players 15.4% of players 15.1% of players 12.4% of players 11.4% of players 7.9% of players 7.3% of players 5.4% of players 5.0% of players 3.0% of players 92.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
92.8%Normal Player — Finish your first Normal run.
87.5%Wave 5 (Normal) — Clear Wave 5 in Normal Mode.
64.4%Wave 10 (Normal) — Clear Wave 10 in Normal Mode.
Rarest badges of honor
3.0%High Shield — Get at least 25 Max Shield.
5.0%Wave 20 (Quick) — Clear Wave 20 in Quick Mode.
5.4%Twice the Ball — Duplicate a Ball.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Dec 04, 2025
Version 1.6 - 2 Years Update

Breaking Survivors is 2 years old already and it's time for a new update that brings a Boomerang Ball buff/rework as well as a couple minor QoL improvements and optimizations. Changelog Boomerang Ball

Nov 27, 2024
Version 1.5 - Anniversary Update

Breaking Survivors is now 1 year old! Or well in 3 days to be precise, but I chose to roll the update early as the game was going on sale with the Autumn Sale today. Anyway, the 1-year anniversary is

Jun 12, 2024
Name Change & Explanations

As some might have noticed, the game was delisted from the store for the last couple weeks and is now back under the new name Breaking Survivors . So, what happened ? I won't go much in detail with th

Feb 23, 2024
Version 1.4

This month's update brings quite a few things. Content-wise, there is a new artifact that adds more replayability and should deepen your build options. Another new feature are the Personal Leaderboard

Jan 23, 2024
Hotfix : Version 1.3b

Fixed Chaotic Random Ball Tier 3 not applying T3 effects.

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresAction, Casual
Player tagsArcade · Casual · Rogue-lite · Score Attack · Minimalist · 1980s · Action · Rogue-like · Bullet Hell · Old School · Retro · 1990's (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Keyboard Only Option · Mouse Only Option · Playable without Timed Input
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America
ControllerFull support
Achievements24
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+) 64 Bits, Windows 10, Windows 11 Processor: Intel i3 or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 512 MB or Graphic Chipset DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 200 MB available space