Pinball Spire
Apparition Games · 2024 · Pinball, Exploration, Metroidvania, Puzzle, Puzzle Platformer
PC
Very Positive85% · 395
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About Pinball Spire
✦ AI summary
Pinball Spire fuses classic arcade pinball with metroidvania exploration as you guide Pip the pinball through a mysterious spire packed with secrets, puzzles, and special mana-powered abilities. Blast through elaborate table-dungeons, interact with creative contraptions, and customize your plucky ball's gear in this unique blend of flippers and adventure.
Pinball Spire is a game unlike any other, a pinballvania blending together classic genres - and pinball. Conquer the titular spire as a brave, plucky little pinball called Pip, destined to step into the plunger and explore the inner chambers of a mysterious spire that appeared in their world overnight. Enter the spire. Inside is a strange pinball maze, full of secrets to unlock, enemies to bump off, and contraptions for the intrepid little ball to interact with. It's not just all flippers and physics either - brave little Pip has special abilities that will play a crucial role in the journey through the spire, towards the challenge lurking at its peak.
- Welcome to the world of Pinballvania! A fusion of arcade pinball mechanics with platforming, puzzles, and exploration—drawing inspiration from retro action-adventure games
- Elaborate pinball levels to explore, combining traditional pinball tables with atmospheric dungeons and passageways to explore.
- Mana-powered pinball abilities enable unorthodox ways to interact with the environment.
- Fun accessories to collect and equip to customize Pip’s appearance!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Pinball Spire promises a pinball take on a metroidvania. With hope in my heart I dived right in but didn't quite find what I initially hoped for. What I did find was charm, atmosphere and a good amount of fun - a game that was worth it's price of entry (just over £6 for me thanks to the summer sale). [h2]The first thing you need to know[/h2] First thing's first: For you to properly enjoy this game for what it is, you need to know what it ISN'T. This isn't a pinball metroidvania. Don't expect it to be. There's a handful of powers you collect throughout the game, only two of which are used to access new areas or routes and the game is constructed in a very linear fashion. You won't be exploring new tables to find hidden passages. You won't have epic boss battles until the very end of the game. The only backtracking you need to do is forced on you, rather than something you would do by choice. This is not 'Pinball FX meets Symphony of the Night' but, in fairness to the developers, it has the beginnings of the elements that it would need to become such a thing. [h2]Why this doesn't matter at all[/h2] What is here is well worth the time of any casual pin-head looking for somethi…2 found this helpful
Fun pinball game, though it's definitely on the short side. Really good for listening to podcasts, too. Looking forward to the sequel.1 found this helpful
Well that was a...game. If you think it looks good. There are far worse things to spend your money on. However its VERY short and has a padded section that feels like its only there so people can't beat it and refund it. Harmless and fun, but could've been a lot more.
Fun metroidvania pinball mix. Quite short though
Short but sweet and left me wanting more! The only negative i noticed is that one of the starting tracks repeats in an awkward spot.
Calling this a -vania game is really stretching the definitions of what you'd find in the genre. You "do" get abilities and you "do" get more traversal, but there's not really much exploration at play here; the game is largely linear, with some of the areas requiring you to take a detour, before returning to the main table to remover the blocker that prevented you from progressing. Game is fine by most marks and measures and otherwise does what it looks like it ought to do. I wish there was secret areas or other things tied to harder shots/sequences. I think I'd end on the side of not recommending this game though. Nothing is particularly offensive, but I found the whole experience was meh.
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