Transform the Marble ball with metal, electric and lighter-than-air properties to solve 3D puzzles based on real-world physics in the quickest time. More than 30 challenging levels!
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SteamYou are here | $9.09−30% | 194reviews | 85% | — | $65.7K |
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It's just like it was all those years ago, nostalgic and pretty cool. Overall it's not that hard unless you are looking for medals, it's more about timing and try and error more than logic and skills. The transformations are nice, specially the power ball with the abilities, but it only makes full use of the moveset on later levels, same with the other forms. Recommended if you want some physics-based puzzles with marbles, you can beat it in a few hours and is fun enough to try to get better times. Esp: Es tal como era hace tantos años, nostálgico y muy re divertido. En general no es tan difícil, a menos que quieras conseguir medallas, ya que trata más de timing junto con ensayo y error que de lógica y habilidad. Las transformaciones están bastante bien, especialmente la de poder con sus habilidades, pero solo se aprovecha al máximo el moveset en los niveles mas avanzados, al igual que con las otras formas. Recomendado si te gustan los puzles basados en la física con bolitas, se puede completar en unas pocas horas y es suficientemente entretenido como para intentar mejorar los tiempos.
I originally bought this via Direct to Drive back in 2007, and really loved it, much preferring it to Marble Blast Gold & Slick Ball. You can download both of these games from various site e.g. Mediafire, Double Games or Marbleblast.com for free. I checked both games for security and both passed with no issues. I was big into marble rolling games at the time; usually, playing them as a break from more intense games, usually AAA games such as Vietnam based games released in the early 2000's for example, Line of Sight: Vietnam, Vietcong 1 & 2 , Men of Valour (UK spelling), Shellshock: Nam '67, Conflict Vietnam & Battlefield Vietnam (plus 1942) and sometimes Americas Army v2.5 or the early Call of Duty or Men of Honour (UK spelling) games to name just a few that I was playing in the early 2000's, at least until Battlefield 2 was released in 2005, which took me up to around 2011 before I moved away from BF2 due to the many mod's that were released (and still are for BF2); however, at that time I was still playing my copy of Switchball and other marble rolling games until I'd been with Steam a couple of years. I'd totally forgotten about the game until it was released on Steam about 5 years ago, but until now have hardly played it due to owning too many other games in my various accounts, that often meant I'd forgotten the actual name of the game despite knowing I had it. Considering it's age, the game still looks great, with sharp graphics and a decent puzzle system and sometimes hard to navigate runs, that'll keep you entertained over a decent period without rage quitting due to them being too hard. I never actually finished the original version despite playing it for many hours back in the mid 2000's to the early 2010's, partly because I was always returning to the first world and never getting to the last one.. The game is well worth buying in my opinion, especially if you love marble rolling games. My original version was bought before the mini depression in 2008, so cost me around $25 (costing more than the usual arcade game around that time, most of which used to cost $19.99 and that was in 2007; $25 then is equivalent to around $40 now - yes we were paying a lot more for games back in the day). Even after 19 years since it's release, it's still worth the money they are asking for it (and a lot less than I paid for the original Direct to Drive version). The early puzzles, at least to puzzle 6 from the first world are easy to solve and should take less than 5 minutes for each puzzle and that's taking your time. Speed runners will probably complete the first world in about 15 minutes, but the levels do get progressively more intricate and will take longer to finish as you progress through the worlds. There are 30 levels spread over five different environments, each world containing six levels. The environments include Sky World, Ice World, Cave World, Cloud World, & Lava World in that order. Each world has a slightly different background music and gets progressively harder to complete. Once you've completed the game you can return to any world and replay the levels. Overall Switchball is a really good marble rolling game, that has stood the test of time. If you do have problems figuring out the first world, you can always check the following video for help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLEQvMCTz2g (Video created by ''Badinfos'') Or the full game (video posted by ''unrealPCgaming'' took just over 2 hours to complete the game): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghk5nVrNrNg
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 20 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese
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A good old childhood game brought back on steam (Hamsterball and Ballance are similar games that i have played as a kid). There are countless of marble/ball rolling platformer games but Switchball is one of the best out there, indeed top 10 of all time, so i do reccommend giving it a try! It is a casual game focusing at the start with puzzles and get introduced to switching balls with different utilities then at the end levels are heavenly combined with platforming. Final chapter is considerable more difficult and the final level is over the top. Some puzzle bits were a bit annoying like being precise with boxes on buttons, air currents, inconsistent dashes power up, somewhat random canon shoots. The game could used a bit more polishing but the game is forgiving with the frequent checkpoints. If you decide to go for gold medals, to make it less frustrating make sure you do your best until reaching a checkpoint because you can safely reset between checkpoints and your timer will also go back. This way you can do section times with limitless attempts rather than try it in one go, which is insanely hard and time consuming, believe me.. And note for gold medals some hidden paths are obligatory to use.
(¯`·._)♣ ♤ ♥♠ villanueva-9 ♣ ♤ ♥♠(¯`·._) Estados moleculares, plataformas flotantes y el rompecabezas de físicas definitivo Si buscas una aventura tridimensional de lógica, habilidad manual y precisión física que rompa por completo con los esquemas acelerados de los juegos de plataformas comerciales, te ponga al control de una misteriosa esfera rodante en entornos celestiales y convierta la manipulación del peso, las inercias y la materia en un épico, sesudo y sumamente adictivo festival de acertijos mecánicos, esta remasterización en alta definición estrenada el 17 de mayo de 2022 es una joya imprescindible. Lleva la mítica e inmortal fórmula de clásicos de culto de los dos mil como Ballance o Marble Madness a su máximo exponente de nitidez visual y pulido técnico en tu monitor, cumpliendo con creces el propósito de ofrecer un entretenimiento directo, retador y reconfortante. • Estética pop-up y una ambientación celeste soberbias: El planteamiento visual del juego basado en presentarte complejos laberintos industriales y arquitectónicos suspendidos sobre las nubes es fantástico. Perderse por su campaña te invita a recorrer 30 masivos niveles divididos en 5 mundos temáticos completamente diferentes (como el Sky World, Ice World o Cave World), logrando un nivel de inmersión inicial magnífico gracias a efectos físicos preciosos, reflejos dinámicos de neón en el pavimento y una dirección de arte limpia que te entra por los ojos desde el primer minuto. • Las cuatro transformaciones y mecánicas moleculares fluidas: La gran genialidad, revolución y seña de identidad absoluta de toda la propuesta radica en sus leyes de transmutación de materia en tiempo real. Cruzar las hileras de portales cuánticos de las salas te otorga la libertad de transformar tu esfera entre 4 estados físicos distintos: la bola Marble estándar, la pesada bola de Metal, la flotante bola de Aire y la veloz bola de Energía, dándote la libertad absoluta de mutar tus tácticas mecánicas de forma súper responsiva. • Estructuras mecánicas y variedad de acertijos espaciales: El título te permite romper de forma radical con la monotonía de las cuadrículas planas al estructurar su avance a través de un inteligente diseño de salas. Superar las pantallas te exige calcular minuciosamente las leyes de la física y el peso de tu esfera; debes empujar bloques fijos de cemento, activar imanes avanzados que alteran tu órbita, cruzar puentes de madera fofos o esquivar corrientes de viento síncronas que amenazan con arrojarte de cabeza por los abismos de la arena. • Carreras contrarreloj y un lote de medallas virtuales: El planteamiento de la campaña se vuelve súper adictivo para los amantes del finalismo y la cacería de logros al integrar un estricto cronómetro de área en pantalla. El software destaca en la interfaz tus tiempos de ejecución y te premia con multiplicadores excelentes si logras cruzar la meta rascando segundos al reloj de forma lineal, configurando un incentivo brutal para registrar tus marcas en las clasificaciones globales en red y lucir tus estadísticas en tu perfil de Steam. • Puntos a mejorar (Curva de aprendizaje muy agresiva): Debido a su intencionada naturaleza centrada estrictamente en la simulación de físicas puras de bajo nivel y a las leyes lógicas del peso, el software carece de un botón de salto convencional. Aprender a controlar las inercias del rodado de la bola de metal advanced sufre de un pico de exigencia mental salvaje en sus primeros bloques de hileras, registrando un formato de juego que requiere un pulso de acero de cirujano en tus dedos en el monitor y que puede llegar a abrumar o frustrar a los novatos. • Cámara en tercera persona tosca en las esquinas: El apartado técnico arrastra un inconveniente menor a la hora de calcular la percepción óptica de tu avatar en las salas más estrechas de la metrópolis. Al enroscarte en pasadizos mecánicos estrechos o colgar de cabeza sobre rieles metálicos avanzados, la cámara fija trasera registra giros rígidos, toscos e imprevistos que te pueden dejar totalmente a ciegas, provocando que pierdas el rumbo de la trayectoria y sufras colisiones defectuosas contra las hitboxes. Quizás exija una paciencia de hierro para memorizar las parábolas físicas en las canchas avanzadas y tolerar la total ausencia de un modo campaña cooperativo local o en red en sus servidores, pero a nivel de ritmo técnico, espectacular y melancólica banda sonora acústica ambiental de ensueño y fidelidad al puro ingenio es, por mucho, un juego de plataformas redondo del catálogo. ¡Decenas de horas de laberintos flotantes dominados, estados de materia cambiados al vuelo, caídas al vacío evitadas in extremis y pura adrenalina cerebral aseguradas! _____________8__88_____8 ____________88_8__8_____8 ___________888_____88___88888 __________8888______88_8____88 _________8888_______88______8_8 _________8888_______88______8_8 _________8888_______8_______8 _________8888_____8_______8 __________88888____8______8 ___________8888888______8 __888_________88888_8 8888888________88_____ _8888888_______8_____ __888888_______88_____ ___88_____8_____8_____ ____8______8____8_____8_88 _______8888_8__88_8_88888 _____888888_8_88__8888888 ____8888888__88______88888 ____88888_____8_________888 ____88_________8__________8 _____8_________8_____ _______________8_____ ____________8_8_____ _____________88_8_____ ______________88_____ ______________8_____
Я играл в оригинальную игру ещё в детстве, но никак не мог пройти дальше 5 уровня. Поэтому очень рад, что разработчики выпустили Switchball HD для современных ПК — наконец-то появилась возможность вернуться в эту замечательную игру и пройти её до конца. Геймплей всё такой же увлекательный и атмосферный, всё как в детстве. За это огромное спасибо авторам. Но огорчает то, что в ремастере 2021 года релиза нельзя поставить 4K-разрешение, а частота кадров ограничена 60 FPS — для ремастера это выглядит странно. В целом же я доволен: игра вернулась, и снова дарит кучу ностальгии и удовольствия.
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Goated on the Xbox 360, goated on PC.
Великолепно!
I played this game on xbox indie games back in the day
This game reminds me of one of these ball games from my childhood. It might have been this, or something similar, but man i got a lot of nostalgia from playing this. The puzzles are great, and the game is almost as hard as i remember it
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