Marble Mage

this game has me hooked. super fun and unique charge mechanic sets it apart from other marble games, while working extremely well. as a speedrunner, it opens up TONS of cool tech, and it's enjoyable casually as well. controls very well, just takes a bit of getting used to. the star system encourages the player to explore different ways of playing the game (raw speed vs collecting crystals), the level design is really fun, the music is jammin', and your character is just a cute lil cat fella! any cons i could think of really just pertain to the lack of options when it comes to display/audio. it'd also be nice to be able to navigate menus with the controller. but that's not really taking away from the gameplay itself, which is superb. and at $3 for 60 levels, you're basically robbing the game devs. GET THIS GAME

Marble Mage is a really short cute indie marble roller with something that can only be described as a "golf like" twist. Coming from a very experienced monkey ball, paperball, and rolled out player I can attest to the controls feeling very good and up to snuff with the other really well designed marble rollers out there and the stage design plays around the charge mechanic extremely well. The game is a blast to go through and only took me a couple hours to fully 100% it. The only couple of complaints I had were small but I feel they are worth noting and hopefully will be addressed in future updates of the game to make it a cleaner experience. 1. Gaps in music: The music tracks just aren't positioned correctly in respect to one another so when a song ends you'll be sitting with just game noises for much longer than feels right. 2. Gem Routing is repetitive: Oftentimes in these levels you will be greeted with 2 paths that are completely the same, sometimes more. In order to get all of the gems which is required for 3 starring each level, you will often have to backtrack and do the exact same obstacle twice on different parts of the map and that just feels extremely boring to do, …

Originally wasn't expecting much from game, but I am positively surprised. I think it is underrated. simple game, yet handles mechanics/graphics/layout with class. Intuitive design/layout and easy to follow. charge feature is good addition. it has unique elements without trying too much. and a step in right direction of stepping away from standard smb we've been used to. colours toned down and don't clash in eyes too much. a good short game to have. only change I think it I would like more upgrades. short/sweet/positive. levels well set up.

A totally playable "Super Monkey Ball" clone that is unfortunately not perfectly designed and occasionally broken. The broken nature of it actually made it more fun to play, kind of like how in Mario 64 you can often come up with your own solutions because the game is so free and open with the controls. You're just trying to reach the exit portal, and/or collecting all the gems and finishing within a certain time limit. Usually in games like this you tilt the environment but here you control the ball, which is fine except the controls kind of are terrible. The marble mage can boost by holding a button and the speed stacks, but it can be taken away at any time for seemingly no reason because the game can't seem to grasp the concept of acceleration. Beyond that you can even boost in midair and flip directions in midar which breaks the game since sometimes you can cheat and completely go over obstacles whereas other times you will just fall to your death. I enjoyed figuring out tricks to get through certain parts, like bouncing off a certain wall to bypass an area or charging at the top of a ramp to fly across the map. The game doesn't seem to encourage or condone this, it's just s…

While looking for a marble-game to scratch my marble itch, I found this little gem. It's short and sweet, and has a lot of small features that really make it shine compared to other marble games: - You can slow time and pivot on a dime. This completely changes how the game feels (and makes it more like a golf game than a marble game IMO) - Many levels contain guard-rails. This reduces the frustration of falling off and restarting. - If you fall off, the level instantly restarts, which is nice - saves time/effort when repeated a lot. - Slow-motion while aiming, makes aiming much easier, and lets you pull off cool mid-air tricks - Each level has three separate goals (complete, time, collect) which you can complete indepdently - so you can focus on finishing, exploring, or racing as you like - Levels are quite short and fun - It has an actual story! - It runs natively on Linux The only thing I didn't like, is that sound didn't work for me (on Arch).

This is really good.