Quantic Pinball

Мертвый порт с кучей критических багов. Настройки экрана отсутствуют, физика ужасна, а локализация полностью игнорирует русский язык.

Much the same as Babylon and Zombie Pinball, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but with the added frustration of inconsistent achievement unlocks. I have accomplished all of the requirements that I've still yet to unlock -- Epsilon, Zeta, Easier, and Kill Them All, but they are VERY conditional or inefficiently programmed.

e Update July 14th/15th: Sorry, let me elaborate. The game initially would not load at all. I had to do a bit of digging and research to find and properly install the needed DirectX 9.0c package(s), on Windows 10. Before I could be bothered to test whether that fix actually worked, I went ahead and tried the game on Steam Deck LCD instead. Worked like a charm, and I even earned a few achievements, except I noticed the balls would oftentimes appear to jitter mid-movement. The physics seem slightly off. The space invaders board-mode is sometimes hard to parse--the buggers blended into the background/table too much in some spots. And on top of all that, everything other than the pinball table paddles is very laggy and unresponsive--menu navigation and selection, pausing, unpausing, etc. Kind of annoying. A day or two later, I finally try it out on Windows 10 again. It works... Except this time I finish the Gamma table, without being awarded the corresponding Steam Achievement. I am currently very tempted to refund, even if it was only a dollar or two. There are so many superior pinball games on Steam and in my library already that even if it was worth that minuscule amount of money, it wouldn't be worth any amount of time. EDIT: Looks like I got it on Fanatical, so no refund for me afterall. Oh well. Hopefully I find a way to un-bug the achievement(s) at least. In particular, I highly recommend you play Pinball Deluxe Reloaded and Yoku's Island Express instead.

Please update. This game could be fun if the flippers actually made the balls travel up. Current physics make the balls too heavy and the flipper power weak. It's unplayable. I had to refund but will buy again if the dev makes improvements.

Pinball game that feels like the one that came with Windows way back. There are couple of nice gimmicks that I haven't seen before in pinball games. However, every table has similar color scheme, so they feel repeatative. When first playing, all but table is locked. To unlock new tables requires either ten tries on previous table or completing a table. Completing the table can be troublesome, because the goal is not always clearly intigated. Music tracks are also nice, but too repeatative.

Not bad for an original Pinball game. The mini-games for the tables is quite interesting. All tables is based on the same theme and only has 1 soundtrack. If you have a 4K display, it will not cover full screen. No Tate mode. Theres no settings available except turning music off. Missing a lot of standard configurations and features that you would expect from any game. I got this for $1 but I wouldnt pay the full asking price unless Dev adds standard quality of life features. This game was released in 2017 and games from the 90s got more features than this. For what its worth, I did enjoy the game itself and what is has to offer and creative gameplay mechanics. If you like Pinball get it on sale.

Note: This review will seem very similar to my review for Babylon 2055 pinball. This is because the "developer" of both games just [b]copy and pasted the entire game.[/b] Asset flipping begins at home, I guess. Quantic Pinball is an extraordinarily mediocre pinball simulator game... I won't go into explaining what pinball is, but it's important to know there's quite a few pinball games on Steam, and while I don't agree with their predatory pricing models, a few of them give you completely free tables to play on and are backed by a really solid pinball simulator engine. This one is the opposite. You can unlock a handful of tables, but there's no point... this is worse than the 3D spaceman pinball you get with Windows XP. It's only in 2D, there's no table bumping feature (I guess you don't have to worry about Tilt???)... it's just a simplistic mess that I am surprised isn't a Flash game. And a slew of technical shortcomings. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game features simple, fairly basic 2D visuals, and while some effort went into them, and they don't look bad exactly, they don't look great, either. In the 3D era of gaming, that kicked off in the mid 1990's with dedicated 3D GPUs like the S3 Virge and ATI Rage, phoning in the graphics like this isn't going to win any awards or appeal to enthusiast PC gamers. It's apparent that little to no testing for the game was done, at least on modern gaming PCs. In fullscreen, the game doesn't display properly, with the game area drawn only up in the top left corner of the screen. This is caused by the developer not bothering to ensure the game works on resolutions over 1080p, with very high resolution monitors that use DPI scaling for the OS UI. Because the game area is not drawn correctly, it doesn't map to the mouse pointer properly, so the game itself simply cannot be played. Gamers shouldn't be forced to accept defective products just because developers don't bother with basic testing on PC. Bewilderingly, the game doesn't include proper audio controls, so you can't turn off the annoying sound/background music, you'll need to alt+tab out and stop it using the Windows sound mixer. This is obviously not okay and it's unclear why the developers chose not to include this basic feature. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2024 (and this was released not so far back in 2017), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort shovelware. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Quantic Pinball has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is "Alpha", for scoring well on the first table, trivial to achieve, but less than 6 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, and isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show less than 6 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who didn't bother engaging with this game? Trading cards. People will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game. That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with little merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam? Quantic Pinball is relatively cheap at $4 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.