The Ball Encounter

The Ball Encounter

XiaogengXu · September 3, 2018 · Free to Play, Indie, Casual

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The Ball Encounter is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About The Ball Encounter

The ball encounter is a FPS tower defence game, which is different from traditional FPS game within gun, and replaced with staff and sword. It does not need too much strategies to do the defence like normal tower defence game, as a capable defencer need to keep the mind and fingers stay sharp.
The scene and play mode design have been optimized as simple as possible, in order to improve the experience of immersion.

Unprecedented tension and pressure: the enermy balls will spawn from all directions, so we must to be observant and alert.

The strategy of skills: in this game, we can use 2 weapon modes and 6 powerful skills to engage with the enermy balls.

Interaction with scene: there are 3 different types defence towers that can assist us to attack the enermy balls, also we can use a specific skill to reinforce the tower.

Fine graphics: good connection between realistic rendering and magic style design, meantime fantasic VFX brings cinematic enjoyment.

The Ball Encounter — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended May 13, 2023
unreal engine moment lmao
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 18, 2025
"The Ball Encounter" is a weird kind of tech demo... it's an FPS tower defense, a bit like if you took Sanctum 2 and removed most of the gameplay and themes. You're a wizard (yes, you are) and you help a tower defend itself against mankinds greatest enemy, balls. Yeah, me neither. What do you do in the game? Shoot the balls with a variety of weapons because the tower is bad at being a tower and should feel bad. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. I'm not sure if this is an asset flip, but it's one of those cases where the assets just look much better than the rest of the quality of the game... a glaring inconsistency. There's no evidence, but as always, the biggest problem with asset flips besides the plagiarism is the deplorably low quality of the other aspects of the game, and even if the game assets are genuinely created for the ga…
2 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 2, 2018
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1 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 1, 2018
Would be an awesome game if there was co-op. No window mode or select video settings. Feels like an early access. Only enjoyable for couple minutes then gets old. But I give it props for being able to play on Linux through Steam Play.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 9, 2018
tis good game c: Now watch me play it! >:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhgvF3aMBHU
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 2, 2025
This game is a MASTERPIECE! using the powers strategically and trying to kill the balls is a fun and exiting experience. i killed the first boss and was overjoyed. the graphics are amazing and the sound quality is great. this game is the best game on steam. 5 stars.

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