The Real Laser Ball
Holmsario Games · 2018 · Action, Indie, Arcade, Casual, Shoot 'Em Up
PC
6 user reviews83% · 6
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About The Real Laser Ball
The Real Laser Ball is a short, straightforward game meant to be played in brief intervals (10 to 30 minutes at a time), while also maintaining a sense of progression between each session. Blast your enemies, collect some coin, upgrade your ball, and chase your (and the leaderboard’s) high score... all while huffing that sweet 80’s nostalgia. Expect a difficult score chasing arcade game.Why "The Real"? Laser Ball is a pretty rad name, and an accurate description. However, the game took a little longer to make than planned and someone else snagged the name. "Laser Sphere", "Laser Orb", "Bally Laser Firey PEW PEW" just didn't have the same ring to it. So, I took a page out of Ghosbuster's book and it became "The Real Laser Ball".
- You control a ball. That ball fires a laser. Get it?
- The laser is your main weapon and your only way of moving around the screen
- Picking up credits will allow you to upgrade various aspects of both the ball and the laser.
- As your level increases, the amount, difficulty, and score value of enemies also increases.
- Get hit without your shield or leave the screen and it’s game over.
Hit boost to zoom across the screen, fight gravity, or deal extra damage to your enemies. Shut down the laser to spin your ball around faster to avoid that approaching wall, snag some credits before they disappear, or escape the approaching bomb. Destroy the enemies as fast as you can to keep your score multiplier going. Drop a screen clearing pulse and hope to pick up another shield charge to stay in the fight a little longer. 
- Difficult skill based twitch gameplay
- Easy to understand but hard to master controls
- Endless arcade style that gets harder the longer you live
- Upgrade system that increases your shield, damage, score multiplier, and more!
- Great for both short and long term game sessions.
- Steam Leader board, Achievements, Cloud support, and (Coming Soon) Trading cards.
- Full Controller Support.
- Neon 80’s aesthetic.
- 80’s synth soundtrack
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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The Real Laser Ball is a somewhat experimental 2D top down retro/minimalist/neon themed "shooter"/ripoff of SpaceWar! from 1962. The quirky difference here is that your weapon is also your propulsion as you shoot a big laser beam that both kills anything you point it at, and propels you away from where you're pointing it. Controlling your propulsion is critical as hitting the edge of the screen kills you. You can remap the controls and even change the resolution, which is more than most amateur games permit, so that's a plus. Unfortunately there's no support beyond 2006's 1080p (it's 2022 now, come on!) and there's an ugly screen filter that you can't turn off, which makes this a bit of a dud. While the game mechanism is almost unique as I've only seen about 3-4 games that use the same shoot/propulsion mechanic, it doesn't actually make the game fun. The minimalist art comes across as lazy, and slapping a 1980's "Vaporwave"/Neon theme onto lazy retro "art" does not a masterpiece make. It's horrible overdone by amateur devs to try disguise the fact they couldn't afford to hire people who can do 3D contemporary graphics SpaceWar! was from 1962, and Asteroids from 1980. Thi…1 found this helpful
This game wasn't made for people like me, who have the mechanical skills of a 3 year old kid... who's dead.1 found this helpful
«The Real Laser Ball» — динамичный аркадный шутер с оригинальной механикой. Управление простое, но требует точности: нужно уворачиваться от лазеров и стрелять по врагам. Графика яркая, но с примитивными текстурами. Звуковое сопровождение атмосферное, усиливает напряжённость. Игра предлагает множество уровней с нарастающей сложностью, что поддерживает интерес. Однако повторяемость снижается из-за ограниченного выбора режимов. Подойдёт для коротких сессий и любителей быстрой игры. В целом — весело и захватывающе, но не для глубокого погружения.
I LOVE The fact that after you die, moving around in the options can kill enemies with the character showing the menu options 😭
[h1]Before I played The Real Laser Ball, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
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