Knockdown the Ball

Hours played at review time, across 23 reviews with recorded playtime.

"Guide the ball and complete the levels". That's original. "Indie" and "casual" are the only two tags this game displays, and it adds: "Have you played before as a simple ball? If you have not played, do not hesitate to try!" Well, I definitely can recall having played as a ball.. I think since the early '90s probably. I don't know why, this game is actually entitled KTB 32bit PCD3D and some other letters that my Win10 laptop doesn't show me when put in tray. The game instructions are given in the main page and they are all written in broken English, but the main thing they repeat in every line is that "achievements are random". "There's a chance to win LETTER achievement every time you walk". Or, "try to spend as much time as possible 'cos most achievements are achieved in RANDOM situations": So they're basically based on luck and may take from 1-2 hours to 10 hours to complete: some of them in fact are granted upon opening a level (randomly), but the other ones are just simply randomly achieved while playing. They are just letters and numbers and have NO connection with anything in the proper game. After hitting "continue from level 1" (well, I thought I had never played the game before..) you'll well.. play as a ball in the usual 3D marble maze that I saw in tons of other games as well. The WASD keys will be used to guide the ball through the maze, collecting other balls for useless points and reaching the end of every level. And there are just less than a dozen of levels, 11 to be more precise.. not that much long-lasting.. The space key is used to jump, and the X key freezes the ball if you're going too fast or such. Unluckily, there is nothing more to add. I think the developers (Turkish I suppose, given the base language of the game) have made a nice effort to create some 3D levels and to work on the ball's movement and such, but the game looks like a copy of tons of other copies of similar games and you can find them for free basically everywhere these years, on Flash gaming platforms and so on. I wouldn't rate this game in a complete negative way since somehow it manages to be what it's supposed to be, "guide the ball through the maze and don't fall down the edges", but there are few levels and apart from some different skins there isn't that much to do if you've explored some of said levels, they all look the same and just get more difficult. Not a harsh criticism (it's not an asset flip at least) but I wouldn't recommend this game.