Ballex²: The Hanging Gardens
Mushreb Games · 2025 · Adventure, Level Editor, Racing, Puzzle Platformer, Logic
PC
Very Positive96% · 175
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About Ballex²: The Hanging Gardens
Welcome to Ballex²: The Hanging Gardens, a physics-driven indie game where high-altitude rolling meets strategic puzzles! Here, you will take control of nine unique spheres to conquer breathtaking aerial wonders and experience an unprecedented challenge that combines physics-based puzzles with demanding controls.
Nine Distinct Balls: Unique Abilities, Deeper Strategy
From the classic wood, stone, and paper balls to new additions like balloon, sponge, and sticky balls, each ball features its own physical properties.Adapt your strategy to each level’s environment and puzzles—leverage each ball’s traits to trigger mechanisms, overcome obstacles, and immerse yourself in a whole new level of strategic depth and tactile control.Dual Control Modes: Play Your Way
Whether you prefer the classic four-directional view or a more free third-person control, Ballex² has you covered:- Classic Four-Directional View Mode (for more precise turning and movement): Use the arrow keys to roll, A/D to rotate the camera, and Space to switch to a top-down view.
- Free View Mode (for a more immersive rolling experience): Use WASD to move, mouse to adjust the camera direction, and Space to lock the camera to 45-degree increments.
40 Official Levels: A Progressive Challenge
Featuring 40 meticulously crafted stages—20 mainline and 20 side levels—Ballex² offers something for both newcomers and hardcore players.The main levels are centered around the fantastical beauty of the hanging gardens, blending visual artistry with physics-based puzzles. The side levels take the challenge even further, pushing your skills and logic to new heights as you conquer them one by one.Free DLC: Level Editor
With the free Level Editor DLC, unleash your creativity and build your own custom map:- Use built-in assets or import your own models, textures, and audio;
- Script mechanisms and unique gameplay with JavaScript support;
- Publish your creations to the Steam Workshop and share them with players worldwide.
Join the Community
Welcome to join the QQ group or Discord server shown in the sidebar on the right. Share your levels, experiences, and suggestions, and explore more possibilities together with the developer and players from around the world!Embark on your high-altitude rolling adventure in Ballex²: The Hanging Gardens—where gravity and ingenuity collide!Inspired by the classic “Ballance”DLC & expansions
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What Steam players say
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✦ AI summary
Players praise Ballex² for its intelligently designed levels, beautiful aesthetics, and unique physics-based gameplay that rewards thoughtful planning and practice, with many comparing it favorably to classic puzzle games. The game's challenging precision platforming and atmospheric presentation across varied, lengthy levels make it a standout experience, though the unconventional 45-degree movement controls require adjustment and may benefit from remapping to a gamepad. Some players note the availability of workshop items, suggesting community engagement adds to the game's longevity.
Ballex²: The Hanging Gardens, developed and published by Mushreb Games, is a precision-based puzzle platformer that challenges players with gravity-defying traversal, physics-driven puzzles, and a serene yet perilous atmosphere. At first glance, it appears deceptively simple—roll a ball from point A to point B across floating platforms—but it quickly reveals itself to be a nuanced and demanding game that requires not just skill, but thoughtful planning and an understanding of each ball’s unique physics. The game is a sequel to the original Ballex, and it builds upon that foundation with more complex mechanics, enhanced visuals, and a deeper focus on environmental puzzle design. The core gameplay revolves around navigating a variety of intricate levels set in a surreal, suspended world known as the Hanging Gardens. You control a ball from a third-person perspective and must roll, glide, stick, and maneuver your way through obstacle-laden stages. What sets this game apart is the variety of ball types, each with its own material properties. The sponge ball bounces and compresses, the sticky ball can cling to surfaces, the stone ball is heavy and stable, and the balloon ball floats wi…6 found this helpful
Magnificent game. The many, lengthy levels are very intelligently crafted, varied and atmospheric, both in terms of scenery as well as music, which I think is unique for every level. The controls even though unusual, in the sense that movement is possible in 45 degrees steps, work really well after some practice. After all, that is the concept of the game. If using the arrow keys of the keyboard is uncomfortable, a good idea is to map them to a gamepad's D-pad. In sort, Ballex 2 is a meticulously well designed , challenging action / puzzle game, with great aesthetic sense.2 found this helpful
Great sequel. The environments are incredible, new ball types to work with, and a great soundtrack! If Ballance never came out back in 2006, we would've never seen a wooden ball go on such a crazy adventure. Ballex and Ballex 2 shall live on as the spiritual successors to a childhood favorite of many.
many of workshop items
I've been looking for 20ish years for a spiritual successor to ballance, this is it. This game is perfect in every way, easily worth twice the price they ask for it.
a pretty nice game edit: exactly
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