KESSLER: Retro Brick Breaker

The game is classic paddle and ball, reworked for one thumb: drag to steer the vessel along the station line and knock out the wall of debris above. Some debris is volatile and sets off chains when it breaks, and catching the falling fragments multiplies your salvage, while missing them resets the multiplier. Faster hits score more, so flying hot pays off. Every third field brings a threat machine to neutralize.

The daily run is the heart of it. The home screen shows the date, today's logged score, your best and your streak, and a countdown to the next field at 00:00 UTC. The field is built on the phone from the date, so it plays offline and is still the same chart worldwide. You get one scored run per day, and anything after it is a practice run marked Not Scored; the result files as a stamped mission report you can share, and it ranks on the daily Game Center leaderboard. Salvage you earn buys instrument colour palettes and is never sold.

KESSLER comes from Horchata Studio, the one-person Valencia studio behind KUMIKO and Quilt, and reached the App Store on 8 September 2026; version 1.0.2 followed on 10 October 2026 with support for wide folding screens and a fix so that only the day's single scored run reaches the daily boards. The daily run is free with no ads and works offline. An optional one-time Overtime license adds endless runs on fresh fields and a Survival mode where the wall walks down at you.