Zone Breaker

Mission briefing

Zone Breakers is a 3D destruction simulator set in a blocky brick world. Blast race cars, houses, castles and skyscrapers into pieces. Every brick that breaks flies into your backpack. Sell the bricks for coins and buy bigger rockets, stronger bombs and larger backpacks, then go smash even bigger things. What makes it unique: Real structural physics: break what holds a building up and the whole thing collapses. Towers topple and walls fall in chunks. One big open map with 16 areas to unlock, from the Race Track to the Volcano and Tower Battle, where you climb giant towers from the inside. 38 rockets, 24 bombs and 25 backpacks, from a starter launcher to a Black Hole and a Nuclear Pack. Free passes unlocked just by playing, a daily prize wheel, Super Lucky Blocks and Rank Ups to keep you coming back. Your progress is saved automatically.

Field manual

Goal: destroy everything to fill your backpack with bricks. Sell them for coins, upgrade your gear, level up to open new areas, then reach level 55 and Rank Up for even more coins per brick. Blast structures with your rocket. The bricks go into your backpack. When the backpack is full, press SELL. Every brick becomes coins. Buy bigger rockets, bombs and backpacks in the Shop. Level up to unlock new areas. Each new area gives more bricks per block. Controls (computer): Move: WASD or arrow keys Aim: mouse Fire: left click Drop a bomb: G (or right click) Switch tool: 1 (rocket) / 2 (bomb) or the mouse wheel Jump: Space Sprint: Shift (free Sprint pass) Menus: B Shop · C Codes · P Passes · R Rank Up · J Daily wheel Pause: Esc Controls (mobile): Tap anything to blast it. Left thumb: joystick to move. Push it far to sprint. Drag the right side of the screen to turn the camera. Hold FIRE to keep firing. JUMP button to jump. Tap the slots to switch between rocket and bomb, and use the buttons on the left for the menus.

Launch orders: press Launch mission above and the game loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first move. It is designed for a landscape (wide) screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for action operations

• First run is reconnaissance. Spend it learning where the danger actually spawns from instead of chasing a score — most action games announce their patterns honestly in the opening minute, then repeat them with worse manners.
• Movement is a defensive stat. A moving target at half health outlives a stationary one at full health in nearly every game on this board, so keep relocating between shots, strikes and reloads.
• Learn the exit before the entrance closes. In arena and chase games alike, the players who survive longest are the ones who noticed the second doorway while everyone else was watching the first.

Zone Breaker — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Zone Breaker?

Nothing at all. The mission is free from the first order to the last — no sign-up, no download, no paid tier guarding the good levels. The advertising around this page is what keeps the board free.

What sort of mission is Zone Breaker?

Zone Breaker is filed in our Action theatre. Like every operation on this board, it is a browser game — read the briefing above for the publisher's own account of what you are deploying into.

Can I run Zone Breaker on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It plays in the browser on phones and tablets exactly as it does on a computer. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Zone Breaker is an HTML5 game: press the launch button and it loads on this page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind.

After-action

Mission complete, or still pinned down? The full Action theatre is one click away — The main hall of the board: 469 operations where something is always moving, exploding, escaping or being chased. If a game has a pulse and a problem, it is probably filed here.