I am Ball

Get it ONLY IF you like challenging platform games with weird ball physics. It takes a lot of time to get used to the ball physics, the "A" key for "calming" the ball only works on floors and doesn't work when the ball bounces off a wall. There is a lot of backtracking, which is not an issue in itself, but the big problem is that there are very few save points and no teleportation, so you end up doing the same platforming challenge over and over again because you don't know where to go next. The graphics are cool, and I love the inspiration from the Within a Deep Forest game by Nifflas, but this game was a lot more frustrating than Within a Deep Forest. It sits closer to Operator Status and ModArchive Story by Nifflas.

A similar throwback to the past days when I used to play Bounce Tails on my fosil Nokia phone. But this game is no joke, very precise phisics, unique gameplay and overall pleasant experience. Would reccomend!

This game is very pretty and fun. Very definition of a hidden gem.

Like several other reviews here, I found this one cause of Within a Deep Forest. While its main inspiration is obvious, this game thankfully manages to have enough unique ball types and puzzles to make it feel like more than just a WaDF clone. It's pretty tough, but only a couple rooms are bad enough to raise your blood pressure (that one underwater room with the coral U-shape and the camera collectible room come to mind...). The soundtrack is good, although it can get repetitive after too long. My favorite area is definitely "A Very Dark Place", both because of the music and the area's unique puzzles (gotta love those little critters you find after the ghost ball). Bubblewood Forest is also a standout thanks to the overarching puzzle of redirecting the bubble trail. The biggest complaint I have about this game is its checkpoint placement. Some areas don't have a checkpoint at the start at all, meaning if you die you'll have to re-enter the area and wait through a loading screen again, which just feels like a waste of time. Certain rooms also feel like they could've used a checkpoint or two for better balancing. The game crashed on me twice when entering a new area, but I never lo…

This game is, frankly, ruined just by the sparseness of its checkpoints. When you have THIS level of challenge from moment to moment, where one very slightly wrong move at every step means instant death—which I otherwise don't mind!—it is just exhausting to not be able to practice an especially difficult bit. To have to replay a whole series of finicky, difficult rooms just to arrive at and again fail the same bit. I Am Ball is kaizo hack hard beginning with the Spectral Cabbage Factory (not very far in), and I have neither the time nor patience for it. And it's a damn shame, because if not for the easily amended unbearable tedium, this really seems like something I would want to see through to the end.

Had a ball.