Ball x Pit Reviews
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Ball x Pit is a roguelite like no other. A once thriving city has been destroyed and those looking to seek out treasure have ventured to the pit. Combine wild abilities and numerous character traits together as you fuse and upgrade your skills to collect gold, resources and more, to build a town, co
Ball x Pit is a very easy game to pick up and play, though it’s also one where the central gameplay conceit is very much present in the free demo; I could see some gamers bouncing (pun not intended) off it pretty hard, but if the demo intrigues you, trust me, there’s a lot more to come that does get addictive fast.
Despite having a silly name — do you pronounce the “x” or not — Ball x Pit does what it says on the tin: it features a bevy of balls, and takes place in a pit. What it really is, though, is a wave-based brick breaker turned into a highly addictive roguelite.
Ball x Pit is a game that I never want to stop playing, thanks to its clever fusion of Breakout bouncing and Roguelike randomness.
BALL X PIT is one of the most satisfying and engaging games we've played all year. No matter what type of gamer you are, BALL X PIT is a must-play.
BALL X PIT is exemplary of what a great game should be. Combining simple to learn mechanics, with a lot of depth and variety into a strangely unique beast of a roguelike. Once it got its fangs into me, the game simply wouldn’t let me go. Above all what struck me the most is that it's a game that looks almost effortless in its brilliance. Yet, the attention to detail and the sheer amount of customization feels unexhaustive. I have gone back into this pit again and again over the last few weeks and I am still not getting tired of it. You’re even able to challenge your friends on leaderboards…
Ball X Pit is a wildly inventive twist on a classic formula, blending brick breaking with roguelike progression, RPG mechanics, and resource management into a chaotic, endlessly replayable experience. Thanks to a deep roster of characters, seemingly endless ball combinations, and a settlement system that evolves between runs, the game will sink it hooks into you and refuse to let you go.
Ball X Pit is a roguelite shooter involving a weaponized bouncing ball. It features rows of advancing enemies trying to push past your line of defence while you
Ball x Pit is a surprisingly deep brick-breaker that relies heavily on smart strategy, clever experimentation, and careful planning more so than RNG and luck alone.
BALL x PIT is a fantastic reinvention of Breakout with a new twist. The game combines concepts from the roguelite genre, farming simulators, and shoot-em-ups. In theory, this blending of elements shouldn't work, but the game is fantastically addicting thanks to a fun gameplay loop. Even though the game can often get repetitive, the presentation and balanced difficulty helps to navigate through any monotony. If you're a fan of Breakout or the roguelite genre, then BALL x PIT is a must-buy.
Arkanoid. Those autoscroller games available on mobile that infest my Instagram and Youtube feeds. The city building bit from ActRaiser. Roguelikes. Those four elements have absolute nothing in common, at least on paper. I never thought a game featuring all of these bits mixed in a blender would ever exist, let alone work, but the developer behind Mr. Sun’s Hatbox, alongside the madmen at Devolver, managed to make that happen. What’s more, Ball x Pit is more than just a combination of non...
Proving there's almost nothing that can't be painted with the roguelite brush, Ball x Pit manages a dangerously intoxicating blend of arcade brick-breaking, ball-based alchemy and town planning that I haven't been able to put down.
I really loved BALL x PIT. Its gameplay is addictive to no end and every aspect just enriches the experience that much more.
A thoroughly 21st century take on Breakout that may just be a classic in the making, mixing 70s style bat and ball mechanics with a succession of insane power-ups and a deeply interlinked resource generation minigame.
Ball X Pit is an achievement of gaming, perfectly blending classic brick breaker arcade games and roguelite base-building into the most pure fun of the year.
The roguelike BALL x PIT is a dangerous game for gamers short on time; before you know it, you've started another run and forgotten the...
What a crazy crossover event Ball X Pit is! Who could have foreseen the rotund, spherical ball franchise matching up so well with a great big hole IP? Well, golfers, I suppose. In all seriousness, Ball X Pit is a melding of so many genres and games that the titular ball and the pit feel like the nominal components here, with solo developer Kenny Sun having crafted one of the best arcade roguelite crossovers we’ve ever seen.
The nice thing about BALL x PIT is that everything you need to know about the game is in the title. There are balls, you’re in a pit, that’s the meat of it. And what BALL x PIT taught me is that’s really all you need to make an engaging video game.
Ball x Pit is a tremendous brew of so many ideas it ought to collapse under the confusion. However, it operates in such perfect balance that it appeals both to the one-more-go instinct and to more cerebral planning and creativity. Kenny Sun Studios set itself a heck of a challenge but, fortunately, hasn’t dropped the ball.
An incredibly fun game that is hard to put down: here is Ball x Pit, published by Devolver Digital.
BALL x PIT expands on the brick-breaking gameplay by adding roguelite and city-builder mechanics, featuring twin-stick action and bullet hell.
Ball x Pit's glorious, anarchic chaos makes it a must-play roguelite for fans of over-the-top arcade fun, despite a couple of minor stumbles.
Ball x Pit developer Kenny Sun: you are a goddamn genius.
Feeling like a combination of Vampire Survivors and Peggle, BALL x PIT is a unique roguelike that we simply can't get enough of. It's tough, and death can come quite easily, but that just makes us want to jump in again and again.
Kenny Sun's new game is a voguish spin on an Atari classic - and it rules.
A roller coaster ride of ball-bouncing action that loves to break its own rules.
Ball X Pit is one of those dangerous games you'll intend to play for 30 minutes, only to lose hours to it instead. A heady combination of Vampire Survivors and Breakout (with some bullet hell sprinkled in), this roguelite arcade action title is incredibly hard to put down.
BALL x PIT answers the age-old question, “What if you mixed Breakout/Arkanoid with Vampire Survivors-like bullet-heaven madness?”. The answer, to the surprise of no one, is a crazy mishmash of genres that works beautifully, and it’s Day One in Xbox Game Pass, although it lacks the longevity of the titles that inspired it.
If you're not already tired of the roguelite systems seen in games like Vampire Survivors and Balatro applied to other games, you'll probably enjoy Ball X Pit. Its block-breaking mechanics are a lot of fun, and it's always satisfying to see the results of a well-crafted build. That said, it can eventually become repetitive.
This indie title is addictive in its simplicity, but it gets tiresome after a while.
Ball x Pit interpretation of one of gaming's simplest ideas is chaotic, messy, and consistently entertaining.
I find myself growing more and more tired of roguelikes lately, and I don’t really believe in “guilty pleasure” as a concept. But if you held a gun to my head and asked me to identify my gaming guilty pleasure, I’d probably answer with Vampire Survivors. It’s the perfect combination of brainless dopamine and just-thoughtful-enough build-crafting that makes me dump hours into something that isn’t up to my usual tastes. So when another game in the “like Vampire Survivors, but with Specific Twist” pool floats up to the surface, I’ll gladly check it out.
Ball X Pit is certainly a unique game and for a time I found it interesting, but if I’m being honest the urge I had to play it felt eerily similar to the urge I’ve had to play crappy mobile games. There is an incremental progression that can be addicting. But after the first few hours I can’t say that I was actually having fun with the game, because it felt like an idle game.
"Ball X Pit is far more than just a game that riffs on the Vampire Survivors formula. It's a game that offers a little something for everyone, with incredibly addictive bullet-hell action, thoughtful township building that doubles as a Roguelike progression system, and on-screen chaos through insane power-ups that make it nearly impossible to track every projectile racing across your screen. It's a hands-on and involved version of its contemporaries, and a truly unique option for anyone who loves the genre. Don't expect jaw-dropping visuals or a tearjerker of a story. But the trade-off of epic gameplay is more than worth it here. In short, you'll have a ball. In fact, you'll have tonnes of them."
If I had a dollar for every Arkanoid-inspired, roguelite, post-apocalyptic fantasy, bullet hell, town-building simulation, arcade/action game, I’d have – well, precisely one dollar. Ball x Pit triumphs by taking familiar, approachable dynamics drawn from across the history of gaming, and layering them into an instantly understandable and immersive whole. It’s one of those surprise successes of a game that is easy to recommend to almost anyone for some simple fun, following in the footst...