Smash Room — Play Free Online

Smash Room is a destruction toy from Happylander Ltd, the studio behind Bottle Flip Challenge and Truck Slam. One everyday object sits on a patch of grass in the middle of the screen, built from small voxel blocks, and your job is to break it apart with whatever weapon you pick from the strip along the side. The game files carry the working title "Break It", which sums up the whole idea.

How to play

Everything runs on the mouse or a finger. Click or tap on the object to fire the selected weapon at that spot, and hold the button down to keep firing. Drag across the screen to swing the camera around the object so you can reach the side you have not hit yet. A button moves you on to the next object, and another one mutes the sound. The game works on a computer and on phones and tablets, in landscape or portrait; the weapon strip moves between the side and the bottom of the screen to fit the orientation.

The weapons

The weapon list in the game code holds fourteen tools, each with its own cooldown and blast size:

• Bat and Glove – close-range hits; the glove is a boxing mitt on a spring.
• M-Gun and Rail Gun – rapid small shots and a continuous beam.
• Rocket, Cannon and Cluster – explosive shots; the cluster bomb splits into smaller bombs.
• A-Strike – an air strike that drops several bombs from the sky.
• Lightning – a bolt from above that leaves scorch marks.
• Saw – a spinning blade that cuts a path through the blocks.
• Sabre – a glowing blade that slices.
• Slime, Flame and Ice – coatings that melt, burn or freeze the object.

Four of these start locked: Lightning, Saw, Cluster and Sabre. Each one opens after you choose to watch a short ad, and the game remembers the unlock in your browser.

The objects

The object files include a laptop, a phone, a calculator, a Game Boy style handheld, a boombox, a toaster, a globe, a trophy, a vase, a glass, a bottle, a carton of milk, eggs, a coffee mug, a burger, a birthday cake, a cactus, a sneaker, a pencil, a Rubik's cube, a figure, a house and a van. The bottle, figure, boombox and burger are locked at the start and unlock the same way as the locked weapons. Some objects leak liquid that drips down as they come apart.

Stamps and packs

When an object is wrecked, a stamp lands on screen with a word such as SMASHED!, KABOOM!, TOAST! or VAPORISED!. Stamps collect as you go. Every fourth stamp completes a pack and sets off a burst of confetti, and earning a stamp for every object in the game shows the SMASH LEGEND! message. That is the closest thing Smash Room has to an ending.

Good to know

• Each weapon has its own cooldown, so the M-Gun fires many times a second while the Cannon, Lightning and A-Strike need a pause between shots.
• Unlocked weapons and objects are stored in your browser, so clearing site data or switching to another browser locks them again.
• If you skip the ad when unlocking, the item simply stays locked; nothing else is lost.