
Hardcore, co-op (or solo) platformer. Dark Souls makes a baby with Super Monkey Ball. An easy-to-learn, hard-to-master experience to explore with your friends. All inside a vast open world, with each platforming course bringing its own twist.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
About
THE CANON OF BALLS is the hardcore, first-person platforming experience you and your friends have been waiting for. Imagine putting Shadow of the Colossus' PS2 aesthetics and Monkey Ball's gameplay into a blender and mixing them thoroughly. What comes out is an easy-to-learn, hard-to-master open-world multiplayer experience to explore and master together with your friends. A vast open world, with each platforming track bringing its own interesting twist, is waiting for you — all of this with no hand-holding. There are no minimaps, quest markers, or tutorials.
The game can also be completed in offline solo mode. No friends required.
I put a lot of work into the sound design to give the BALLS as much weight as possible, all to create a snappy gameplay experience with memorable juice. The world is fully "handcrafted" to be a non-repetitive, non-modular open world. I purposely didn't build a modular "copy and paste" kit to craft the levels. All of the parkour courses feature a specific idea, twist, or thought to make sure everything feels fresh in a different way. No AI art assets have been used.
From the start, I knew THE CANON OF BALLS should be something to experience with friends. Without setting any rules or multiplayer objectives, the world provides its own platform to give birth to fun, memorable, virtual togetherness. The premise was the good old days of playing Minecraft parkour maps and talking about all kinds of things while you struggled together. You can be competitive and see who reaches a crystal first, or play more cooperatively, navigating together and waiting for each other. The freedom is in the hands of the group, and I can't wait to see how you all choose to play it. The word "co-op" might be a bit stretched for the game, as there are no real mechanics that require multiple players—it all works solo. However, the true social moments are what make this experience so special.
NOW GET IT AND START ROLLING!!!
Genres
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 329 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
gooooo game
Really good game, i think i've been trying to find a game like this for a while, The game is great when you are platforming in a specific area but i really don't like the open world style that the game took as it just makes all the content of the game scattered around and hard to find, tho the open world did make it easier to reach mach 3 then fly into the sky to catch a big bird. yes balls, no canon, game sucks plz add canons
A short, challenging, all-killer no-filler platformer. The beginning half is more like an open-world with isolated platforming challenges you can take in any order, and the second half has some really stressful climbs that border on rage game content if you don't have the patience to try again. That said the movement is so momentum heavy and the map is so pretty. Awesome work for a solo dev!
Media

Related
Related
Price dynamics, follower growth, revenue and sales trajectories with interactive tooltips
This and every other Pro feature is free until October 20, 2026. A free account is all it takes.
Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 329 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
this was very fun with friends (:
BALL
Can't go wrong with The Canon of Balls
Все также атмосферно
very fun, plenty of alternate ways to get the crystals that are not intended
Хорошая игрушка! Ожидал что это будет нечто вроде гонок на разных трасах против друзей, а оказалось - это платформер на прохождение с опциональным коопом. Это неплохо, но пройдя, понимаю что в игрушку уже не зайду (пока автор не добавит новых глав). Местами много паркура, местами гоняешь быстро, а местами очень сложно до неприличия. Опыт крайне любопытный.
Game of the year 2026
Selling now
See how fast this game is selling right now — estimated copies and revenue per day from recent review growth.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
The games this title's players most often review too — audience affinity.
Related
| Game | Estimated lifetime revenue | Reviews | Review score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 0 | — | — | |
| — | 0 | — | — | |
| $8.8K | 76 | 62% | $4.99 | |
| $0 | 0 | — | $3.99 | |
| — | 0 | — | — | |
| — | 0 | — | — |
Related
| Game | Estimated lifetime revenue | Reviews | Review score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $30.3K | 88 | 72% | $12.99 | |
| $30.3K | 219 | 70% | $4.99 | |
| $30.3K | 60 | 22% | $14.99 | |
| $30.3K | 90 | 90% | $14.99 | |
| $30.3K | 123 | 76% | $8.99 | |
| $30.3K | 58 | 93% | $13.49 |