Pinball Spire

Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.

Hours played at review time, across 70 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

No respect for the player's time. Unforgivable. You're expected to use a slow time power to precisely aim your shots, which is ridiculous when it's using a limited resource. Once the ball is in motion, you have very little control over where it goes, except for nudging it - which uses the same resource as the slow time. Eventually, you get a fireball power that's mostly used for puzzle solving - which uses the same resource as the slow time and the nudge. All of these put together encourage you not to spend everything at once. If you don't though, it's entirely possible to set yourself back a minute or two in one go. After an absolutely tedious amount of backtracking, I called it quits. I loved Sonic Spinball on the Sega Genesis as a kid. What really made that work was that Sonic, as the pinball, was still able to be freely moved by the player while in motion. This game sorely lacks that, and is pretty much nothing but a time sink accordingly. Careful about what you buy in a bundle, everyone.