Press kit
Everything you need to write about OutBrick.
A calm sliding-brick puzzle with 2,000 levels across 167 brick-built villages and five current friends: Pix, Luna, Brix, Nova and Max. Slide one brick along its lane and route it through an open gate that accepts its colour. There is no timer, and the game can be played offline.
The short version
A board looks impossible, and isn’t.
A calm sliding-brick puzzle with 2,000 levels across 167 brick-built villages and five current friends: Pix, Luna, Brix, Nova and Max. Slide one brick along its lane and route it through an open gate that accepts its colour. There is no timer, and the game can be played offline.
OutBrick has lives and it has advertising, and it says exactly how both work: a life is spent only when an attempt ends without a clear. The first undo on every board is free and cannot run out. Beyond that, undos come from a tank of five that refills one every twenty-five minutes. If a board has no legal move outside its sealed rooms, the “Wedged!” sheet offers a free undo outside the tank. Every video is one the player pressed a button to see.
- Title
- OutBrick (App Store listing: OutBrick: Block Sort Puzzle)
- Genre
- Directional sliding-brick puzzle
- Developer
- Mourad Hamdi, independent
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro and Apple Watch
- Price
- Free. Optional coins, boosters, Remove Ads and the Brick Pass. No subscription.
- Content
- 2,000 solver-verified boards across 100 chapters; a Journey of 167 brick-built villages; five friends: Pix, Luna, Brix, Nova and Max
- Current iOS release
- On the App Store · iOS 5.5
- Lives
- Opening a board spends no life. Clearing it costs nothing. Lose one life only when an attempt ends without a clear: decline the out-of-moves continue, leave a board in progress, or restart after making a move. Five lives, eight with Brick Pass; one refills every thirty minutes. Boards without a move limit are outside this life rule.
- Undos
- Beyond that, undos come from a tank of five that refills one every twenty-five minutes. If a board has no legal move outside its sealed rooms, the “Wedged!” sheet offers a free undo outside the tank.
- Ads
- Eight optional rewarded video placements have separate daily caps, with up to 39 views a day in total. Videos start only when you choose; there are no banners or automatic interstitials.
- Pressure
- Where a board has a move limit, it is shown from the first tap; some boards have no move limit. No clock, timer or countdown anywhere.
- Accessibility
- Colour-blind glyphs on by default; every brick a VoiceOver element; Larger Text; Reduce Motion honoured
- Apple features
- Live Activities, widgets, Game Center (57 achievements), iMessage stickers and challenges, Siri and Shortcuts, iCloud sync
Current game captures
Current five-friend game captures.
These are source-matched captures of the Journey, a board and the out-of-moves wall. They show the current five-friend art with real game UI; they are not promotional mockups. Select a file to download it.
Icon and cast
The Pix app icon, wordmark and five friends.
Transparent PNGs of the current brick-shaped cast. Please don’t recolour them or give them voices: in the game they speak in text bubbles.
For print
QR codes for posters, flyers and slides.
Vector SVGs in the house colours, indigo on cream, with the quiet zone built in. Both are decode-tested; print them at 2 cm across or larger, and leave the cream border on.
House style
The right words.
Please write
- OutBrick, one word, capital O and B
- Directional sliding-brick puzzle
- Five friends: Pix, Luna, Brix, Nova and Max
- 167 brick-built villages on the Journey
- A move limit, not a clock
- Opt-in rewarded videos; nothing interrupts a board
Please don’t write
- “No ads” or “no lives”: both were true once and are not now
- That the friends have voices; their in-game reactions appear in text bubbles
- That there is a timer, a Rush mode or a countdown
- That OutBrick has a subscription
- Brain-training or health claims of any kind
Contact
Questions go to a person.
For interviews, review access, asset requests or accessibility questions, use the contact form with the topic set to Press & media. Mourad replies himself, by email.
On the App Store · iOS 5.5
Slide bricks home. Open gates. Walk the Journey.
A calm sliding-brick puzzle with 2,000 levels across 167 brick-built villages and five current friends: Pix, Luna, Brix, Nova and Max. Slide one brick along its lane and route it through an open gate that accepts its colour. There is no timer, and the game can be played offline.
Drag one brick in a direction. It moves along its legal lane, stopping where you release it or at an obstacle, gate or lane end. Send it through an open gate that accepts its colour. Each valid push uses one move; there are no neighbour swaps or colour-match lines.
Bricks have different movement rules: when a key exits, it opens a locked brick and locked gates; ice counters drop as other bricks leave; connected pairs split after the set number of other bricks exit; a multilayer brick sheds its top colour at a gate that accepts it; arrow bricks move on one axis; and a snow cap comes off when another brick slides past. Crates also block lanes.
The Journey has 2,000 levels in 167 villages. Each village has twelve levels except the final village, which has eight; its 100 chapters are separate groups of twenty. Standard boards ask you to route every brick through a gate that accepts its colour. Layouts and feature combinations vary rather than following a fixed twelve-board sequence. Hidden bricks begin at level 21; sealed rooms begin at level 30. The eight gate behaviours are plain, locked, iced, counted, cycling, wildcard, paired and timed. Generators feed queued bricks onto the board, and conveyors can carry bricks after a move. The tiers are Normal, Hard, Super Hard, Boss and Night; Night changes the palette while keeping the movement rules.
VoiceOver names a brick by its kind, colour and position and offers directional slide actions, including whether a route exits through a gate. It announces where a brick stops and what leaves the board. Hidden bricks never reveal their colour through labels or hints. A two-finger double tap asks for a hint; rotors navigate goals, blockers and gates.
Siri can answer about lives, refill time, the Daily Brick and village stars. Widgets, Live Activities, Spotlight, Shortcuts and Focus filters bring the game into Apple’s system features; supported Apple Intelligence features depend on your device and system. iCloud keeps progress across your devices.
Community and Report a bug in the app’s Settings open the OutBrick Community: ask for help, report a bug, suggest an idea and vote on what comes next. A report from the app arrives with your device, versions and level filled in. Read without signing in; use email, Google or Apple to join the conversation.
More challenge, and help when you need it
Version 5.5 adds more Hard, Super Hard and Boss levels across the Journey, with more colours, gates and sealed rooms; many villages now end with a Boss. “Stuck?” and the Rescue Pack return after a lost try. The out-of-moves screen is simpler, with extra moves for coins, a free video that awards one Hint, not extra moves, and a warning when your win streak is at risk. Move Booster Pass now lasts seven days instead of 48 hours, and new sounds and haptics accompany bricks as they slide, cross gates and fill them.