Ball Drop (2023)

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"Ball Drop" is yet another vacuous high school project tier amateur game, one of those falling marble physics games where you have to muck around with your iPhone to get the ball to fall in the right spot. Except somehow this is on Steam and not the app stores, I guess by mistake. There is a gimmick here that involves the obstacles interacting with the mouse, but that was not the revolution (geddit) that this simplistic mobile/Flash tier genre needed. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. …

Took about 45 minutes to beat. As others have said, the controls are fairly wonky - you sort of have to imagine an invisible circular track upon which everything is based, but your distance from the track also matters...I think. Either way, its a fairly fun game. I almost wish it were a bit longer.

It's not even a ball. It's a gear. It's a damn gear.

The controls are janky and the game is glitchy as hell. Its not fun. I do not recommend.

makes me think of the sword of warning. there will be traps ahead, i warned you! ironically, you need to tip over every obolix. the start looks like oogwey. i played cluster truck while trying levels, because that's a need for this game. music. absurd music yes. I'd pay like 2.65 for this plus 1 glave of stabbing into my endurance and mental fortitude. highly recommend.