

Ballardo: Roguelike Billiards
Nue Games · 2025 · Choose Your Own Adventure, Simulation, Turn-Based Tactics, Replay Value, Mouse Only
PC
Mixed54% · 13 📉 Recent reviews down 45%
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About Ballardo: Roguelike Billiards
Welcome to Ballardo — the ultimate fusion of classic pool and roguelike strategy! Take your shot, rack up huge scores, and build your deck of stickers and relics to transform every run. Fast, stylish, endlessly replayable.
Core Features
- Classic Pool, Reinvented: Familiar controls, satisfying physics — now with a twist of chaos.
- Roguelike Progression: Conquer score thresholds to unlock harder tables, tougher layouts, and greater rewards.
- Stickers & Relics: Modify ball behavior, stats, and visuals to build your own broken strategy.
- Dynamic Scoring System: Earn big by chaining bounces, trick shots, combos, and perfect pockets.
- Between-Round Shops: Spend your coins wisely on upgrades, packs, or rare items.
Gameplay Highlights
- Customize Your Run: Attach stickers to your balls to boost stats, unlock abilities, or change costumes.
- Relics Change Everything: Gain passives like explosive pockets, bonus coin rules, or shifting table hazards.
- Skill Matters: Master your angles, power, and timing to win.
- Wild Encounters: From maze-like tables to boss stages — no two runs are the same.
Score System
- Target high-multiplier balls to max out your score — avoid penalties!
- Chain bounces, pockets, zones, and relic effects for massive combos.
- Use every trick in the book to beat the target and move forward.
Relics & Stickers
- Relics: Passive effects that flip the rules — like magnetized pockets, extra coins, or chaos tables.
- Stickers: Build your loadout by attaching modifiers to balls — each with unique powers or appearances.
Planned Features
- New modes like Snooker, Classic, and Co-op tables.
- Hundreds of new stickers, relics, and cue options.
- Online leaderboards for global competition.
Join the Community
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players criticize the game's poor aiming mechanics, where the cue ball doesn't fire where indicated, making it frustratingly unplayable, alongside frequent crashes and severe balance issues like brutal negative multipliers and overpowered power-ups. The overall design feels unfinished with limited content variety, unclear stat systems, and a board layout that reduces chaos, leading reviewers to question whether developers actually playtested the game before release.
I know it's early release but really you get the same relics and stickers ever run just luck really very repetitive5 found this helpful
I'm honestly not sure what the point of this game is, but clicking any button means you win every time. It could not be less interesting. Visually, it's mediocre and flashes frequently, so take additional care if you're someone with epilepsy, etc.4 found this helpful
Might be the quickest refund in my life. Has this been AI generated by a bot who didnt even get trained on anything pool related?2 found this helpful
I bought this game because I love Roguelikes and Billiards. I was disappointed because the aiming is quite limited, the line that your cue ball shoots on snaps to the nearest ball and like little points on it that don't make much sense. Just when you aim ghost ball for a cut shot, the cue ball goes nowhere near where it showed you it was going to go, making aiming pretty much impossible. Once I was able to accept the fact that its just a ball clacking game it was fun but it didn't last long. The game crashed on me three times during my 20 minutes of playing, so even if I wanted to give it a shot I couldn't.1 found this helpful
Have you ever played a game and wondered if the developers actually played the game they released to see if it was fun? Well look no further. The board is too big for the amount of bounciness on the balls (so there's rarely any chaos, even with bounciness stickers). The -1x multiplier holes are absolutely brutal. 1920x1080 is the max resolution, which is headache inducing. The ball guide is horribly inaccurate. etc. This is early access, so these things could definitely improve over time. As the game stands though, not worth it.1 found this helpful
The game, as it exists today, is barely playable. Between negative multipliers, massive power-up disbalance, upgrades which are outright harmful, stats whose function is unclear, and occasional crashes, it needs a LOT more work before it even approaches "good". I would absolutely remove all base negative effects (negative hole and 8-ball), make the power-up that sucks balls into the hole after one gets in automatic (Black Hole Core; have powerups that improve the effect), make balls easier to get into holes, add some sort of combo effect to be able to get more shots, give better upgrades (+0.3 mult is amazing. +4 ball power is, uh, much less so), and add more variety to powerups. The scoring system is also... not great. You score points for collisions, which incentivizes smacking the ball as hard as you can... but you score mult for precision hits into the 2x hole, which requires an entirely different set of hits. Maybe accumulating points and mult over the course of the round would be a better idea, so you can focus on both?
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