Ballionaire

I must admit that my time with this game was a disappointment. Despite giving it a fair shot, I found myself struggling to grasp its mechanics and progression. The gameplay feels inherently unpredictable, with outcomes seeming to hinge on chance rather than skill or strategy. While I'm not one to shy away from challenges, this game's design seemed to prioritize complexity over clarity, making it difficult for me to discern what actions were effective. Fun for a few sessions, and then got bored since i could not progress to other levels.

Haven't played long. Game was in Humble Bundle. Still, wanted to give it a rating, because I just can't see the appeal here. While there are a lot of different "maps", difficulties and placeables that turn into combinations, the base gameplay just doesn't feel ... inspiring. You pick some stuff, you place it, you remove stuff that isn't working (anymore) if you can, you choose some passive boons, and then ... you watch a ball bonk around for 20 seconds ... There is a reason the game has a 4x speed option ... I guess, for some people this will hit some sort of dopamine ... for me it's a tad too boring and too reliant on RNG. You basically have no control over where the ball goes, so while in theory you can make like 100k a round ... it could also just be 10k ... because of bad luck. You can have your ball be automatically saved once with a certain item, only to see it plummet straight back down into the abyss, not generating any more money. It's just a lot of variables you have no control over. Overall, I feel like the price isn't outrageous, and someone clearly put some thought into this, but unless you really, really, really love pinball machines and just "big number huiiiii", then I'm not sure you will get much out of it.

it's like if Peggle was fun

[h2]To be honest, I agree with most of the negative reviews. But buy on a sale and you'll get 1-2 days of decent fun out of it. 6.5/10[/h2] At time of writing, it's 60% off and under a fiver. I'd say it's worth it, at that price.

Ballionaire is wildly addicting and knows how to implement visual and audio feedback to give you them good chemicals whenever you get a multi-minute long combo going. While the game has it's hooks in you, it's a real joy in figuring out synergies and playstyles but unfortunately after the discovery period is through, actually implementing what you've learned makes this game pretty easy. In reality there are about 5 or so playstyles that you take despite there being a fairly impressive amount of pegs to place, perks to choose, and hurdles to avoid, but for all that there is to work with, Ballionaire feels like it steers you into those 5 set paths if you want to be successful. It does take a little while to get to that point, and the gameplay cycle of attempting a run, getting unlock tokens to add more pegs to your proverbial box-of-options, and going back in, is really solid and will absolutely eat hours of your life. As opposed to other rougelikes where your knowledge unlocks a whole new layer of understanding and satisfying mastery of the game, Ballionaire becomes fairly one-note instead. The journey to get to that point is not to be understated, I absolutely loved my time with Ballionaire and I still go back every-now-and-then but it's tail is not as long as I expected. Still a great game. Still an absolute dopamine milking machine. Cannot wait to see what the world of pachinko rougelikes holds.

備忘録 ウィンドウモードで遊びたくて設定からフルスクリーンをオフにしても、フルスクリーンと同サイズのボーダーレスウィンドウになってしまいサイズ変更ができない時の手順 設定やAlt+Enterでフルスクリーン→ボーダーレスに変更してからWindowsキー+↓などで縮小することでウィンドウ枠が発生してウィンドウサイズを変更できるようになる ゲームを起動してから一度フルスクリーン→ボーダーレスにする手順を踏まないと上手く行かない 何だこの儀式？設定から普通に弄らせてくれ

May not be the world's best roguelite or it's longest lasting, but I did enjoy my time with it. Once you figure out how everything in the game works though, it does become nigh trivially easy, even on the higher difficulties. Still though, it is difficult to deny the lizard brain amazement of "number go up."