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• gamedeal user

  May 22, 2023

  Ballway is a simple mobile app/Flash-like 2D retro pixel/minimalist puzzle game. Gameplay consists of clicking on various blocks on each puzzle level. Some blocks vanish, some explode, clicking on the right blocks in order and with the right timing will propel the ball to the green zone, then you move on to the next level, that's all there is to it. Considering the sheer power of modern gaming PCs, this is an incredibly underwhelming and shallow experience, however, gamers may get some amusment from the price the developer thinks this is worth. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The graphics here are some of the worst, laziest attempt at video game "art" I've ever seen. It's hard to suggest this game even has graphics. It's just untextured, basic pixel blocks and blobs, the kind that an infant child might be able to create in 5 minutes on MS Paint. It's clear the developer didn't even try to produce any real graphics for the game and just phoned it in. It's unclear why such a lazy approach was taken, whether it may be caused by lack of talent, budget, or motivation to do their job properly. It also doesn't matter... what matters is that this has resulted in a game with zero visual appeal for gamers. It's an immediate failure on that measure alone. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the app stores. It's unclear why this was put on Steam instead of the app stores it seems to have been designed for. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes Ballway might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Ballway has the laughable price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 21, 2017

  I'm satisfied. The game relaxes
• gamedeal user

  Aug 2, 2017

  Really enjoyed this game. It's a simple point and click puzzle game. You only need your mouse. A simple goal of getting the ball marked with an "X" to the green zone using explosive red blocks to push the blue blocks. It emphasizes timing and trial and error, but is not too exasperating to new players. The music was calm and relaxing, and the controls are fine. For $0.99, this is a fine game to pass the time. I didn't really take long to finish it, but then again, it's just a buck. Then again, there are some details that could make this game better, like achievements and trading cards, and changing it so that if you lose a level, you don't have to manually restart it but can just automatically try it again. Overall, I'd recommend this game.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 15, 2017

  A hyperviolent game where the goal is to take Red X from Teen Titans to the Money while purging as many of the filthy Blue People as possible!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 11, 2017

  This is a good game IF you are looking for a game to fill in small amounts of time with little to no thought gone into it. It has a fair price as I got it for $0.12 NZD so very cheap. 3 out of 5
• gamedeal user

  Oct 16, 2017

  This game is simple and eazy to finish, you can do the 50 levels in 10-30 minutes. If I have to give beteew 0-10, i will up a 7
• gamedeal user

  Jun 20, 2019

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