Whackerball

As I am writing this, the people giving negative reviews claiming the game is "too hard" all have less than a full hour in the game. The game IS challenging, but its the rewarding kind of challenging. It has unlocks, and you progress through the game, getting further and improving your skill with each run you start. Basically, these people didn't even really give the game a chance or just can't handle the game having a bit of a learning curve.

Quick Score: 5/5 Notes: Extremely fun game. Really wish there was either a slightly more difficult mode or a TLB or something similar. Some of the reviews complain about the difficulty, but once you get used to the game and figure out what a couple of the extremely powerful upgrades are the game isn't very difficult. Advice: Use the starting trait that heals you after every stage. Use the SMG or Pistol. Priority upgrades are Turret, the balloon that makes the ball fall less fast, and slingshot. Slingshot sounds bad, but its actually extremely powerful. None of the other upgrades matter a ton but they all help a little, you should always choose the above 3 over anything else though. Although turret and slingshot probably aren't great for shotgun or bow, that's probably why i just wouldn't recommend either of those weapons. Wouldn't bother with ammo upgrades really, just save for +max health or regular health if you are extremely low. I died I think my first 3 runs just learning the game, but after figuring the game out and following this strat i first tried the hard mode, no shop, and no upgrade runs back to back in that order. Though I did finish all of these runs with extremely low health so I may have fluked them slightly.

Very fun, short and sweet experimental game that combines: - Breakout mechanics of moving a paddle to keep a ball in the air, which can damage enemies. - Twin stick elements of aiming and shooting enemies from your ball, all while dodging bullets as the paddle. (You can control the ball movement with the recoil of your shots, and only reload when touching the paddle) - Rogue-like elements with different types of upgrades, shops, unlockable ball weapons, and extra modifiers. Also with runs taking less than 25 minutes with a boss at the end. I definitely recommend this to anyone that is even remotely interested, it is decently cheap too!

Awesome concept executed to perfection. I've never played a game like this; It looks simple but it's one of those games that takes 1000% of your concentration to play properly. The skill ceiling in a game like this feels incredibly high. The mechanics all flow together so elegantly and everything is so juicy. The game also has a ton of unlocks and each run has a lot of variety, I can see myself sinking many more hours into this. The music is also excellent, all-around great game especially for the money!

面白すぎて全実績解除しました。こんなに面白いのに日本語レビューがゼロだったので書きます 個人的にローグライクアクションの中でも3本の指に入るぐらい好きなゲームです。 ローグライク・ブロック崩し・STGを組み合わせて独自のアクション性を生み出したゲームです ①玉が落下しないようにバーで拾う ②敵を銃、もしくは玉の突進で攻撃する ③敵の攻撃をバーが食らわないように左右移動とShiftでのバーの縮小化、または玉を盾にするなどしてやり過ごす ④敵を倒した時に落ちてくるお金を拾う ⑤上記の動作を行いながら、玉の残弾数を管理する(バーに触れた時にリロードされる) これらを常に行う必要があるハイパーマルチタスクゲーです。[spoiler] (最後に解放される武器では、これに加えてもう一つ要素が追加されます。頭がおかしくなります)[/spoiler] アクション強度がとてつもなく高いですが、それ故に上手く動かせてる時の楽しさも半端ないです。他では味わえない““やってる感””を味わえます。 ローグライク要素に関してはかなりいい塩梅に作られていて、そこも良かったです。高難度アクションでありながらも強いアップグレードを引けると無双できるぐらい強くなれたり、厳しい状況を打開できるようなアップグレードもあったりととにかく丁度良いです。 あとBGMも何気に良いです。 日本語はありませんが、日本語のないゲームを毛嫌いしてあまりやらない自分でもなんとかなるレベルだったので問題ないです 全然定価で買ってもいいゲームですがセール時は200円台になるのでセール時に買うのがおすすめです。 本当に新感覚の楽しさだったのでもっと評価されてほしい

Edit: They fixed it The game is now very inspirational. Old review: Just like your other game, some more ability to change my controls and access to information would be nice. IE, using right click to shrink the board instead of shift so my left hand can just focus on moving left and right, and my right hand can focus on attack/defend. Being able to change the controls for a game is pretty standard in my opinion, so it would be very nice. Made it decently far I think for a couple of runs, the gameplay loop is fine it just needs some tuning. Game is incredibly difficult.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA My ability to mutitask is so limited this game peels my brain like a banana. 🐒🐒🐒

Okay I have one thing to say, AMAZING! I am updating my review after they made changes and added some new functions and buttons. Now you can right click and the ball will shoot down automatically, and they added some more functions and nerfed some things, like making the ball slower, and made some maps easier. I can now play this game and get somewhere. They did an awesome job and I am now seeing parts of the game I had not seen until this update. I am very happy and they made FANTASTIC improvements and were clearly extremely creative with their work that they added in the new patch. If you gave this game a bad review, give it another shot because they went out of their way and made this game a lot of fun, and easier (It is still a challenging game of course). The dev clearly read the reviews and I am very satisfied with the game and the updates. Thank you so much for reading the reviews and improving the game. I love it! Thank you devs. I can easily recommend this now.

Highly recommended little indie game. It's really tough to play at first, but as you get the hang of it, you start pulling off some really sick maneuvers. I definitely feel the pull to play just one more time and notice myself getting measurably better every attempt. Power ups are fun and simple to understand. One of those little indie titles that has you thinking "why wasn't this done years ago?"

good game worth the price decent amount of variety challenging at first but you'll get used to it don't expect any updates since the last one was in 2023 also screw the bow weapon