BALLS TO

THE WALL

Ball x Pit is what you get when you mix Pinball with Zuma Deluxe from Windows XP. It is one
of those games that does not make sense
until you really try it out for yourself.

It can also feel like Vampire Survivors at times once your screen fills up with balls, balls,
and just more balls vanquishing enemies
and levelling up.

It is a game that gets you hooked and obsesses you, like a newly recruited addict. You can find yourself addicted to the balls and consumed
by the pit, as the sunlight slowly seeps away,
and you are left with the ever-encompassing
void of night and just the sound of balls.

Kenny Sun and Friends designed the game to overwhelm your senses until you find yourself needing more. There will always be just that
one more run, but the reality is there will
never be just one more run, one more ball.

REVIEW BY

Aiman & Lil Mo & MOHAMED

Genre

Roguelite, Action

Developer

Kenny Sun and Friends

Release Date

15 Oct, 2025

Publisher

Devolver Digital

Gameplay

Story

Art Style

Goodness Gracious,

Great Balls of Fire

The combat in Ball x Pit looks straightforward, balls to the wall – you control the character,
you go towards walls of enemies and then
you shoot balls at said walls of enemies.

Each ball can be upgraded, fused or evolved.
Balls can have AoE damage, life leech or even duplication on impact.

The upgrades are random each time you level up, but this contributes to that addictive feeling of micro rewards and decision-making rather than slow progression, much like Vampire Survivors.

Building the perfect ball combo can be rewarding, especially when you fuse balls together in
the most unexpected of ways.

That said, the screen can get super busy at times, even on the early levels, and if you are a person who gets easily overwhelmed and seizure-prone, the balls may not be your calling.

Let Those Balls

Breathe

It is more like smelling the coffee beans between perfume scents rather than an entire scent on its own. Although it is needed when you just want
a change of scenery and a breath of fresh air
when the pit runs get too intense and all you
want is to build a city.

Surprise surprise, the city has to be interacted with by bouncing characters ike balls. Very consistent, very cool, mindful, very demure. City building is the weakest link here, and managing the layout can be very tedious when you make a mistake
in placing structures.

After each run, the game puts you into a city sim that is right above the pit, like that one scene
from 300. The resources you collect are used
to build and upgrade your city’s buildings,
buff permanently, unlock new characters,
or just improve your future runs.

The Non-Existent

Library of Babylon

The city of Ballbylon has fallen. It has collapsed into a pit filled with monsters and treasure
and you, the player, must descend, dive,
survive, and rebuild what has been
destroyed in the aftermath.

That is it, that is the plot. It is not much to go by, and it just exists to lubricate the gears of the
main gameplay loop. There is no narrative,
no character arcs; it is like a cheap slipper
glue that is needed but can come off
anytime. Just a bare minimum story.

If you are looking for narrative-driven gameplay, emotional storytelling, and crazy lore drops on
a wiki, then this is probably not where Ball x Pit excels. You are meant to shoot balls in a pit,
not be pitted by narrative balls.

Signed, Jackson

Ballock

The game’s aura leans towards dark fantasy
arcade, as if Game of Thrones had a pinball machine and it was all the hype for the 80s.
It brings a grainy feel with its textures, exaggerated effects, and clutter.

It could take some time to get used to the art style and design, but you will get used to it, especially when the screen is filled with
lasers, explosions, and balls upon balls
upon balls of chaos.

Dodging could oftentimes be hindered though, when the screen is just filled with all the clutter, even with hitboxes enabled. It can be messy,
loud, and sometimes even hard to read,
but Ball x Pit is very rarely just boring.

Ball x Pit is a game built around visual, mechanical, and mental escalation, where the satisfaction in the game comes from watching your character carefully assemble and optimize a build of balls that slowly spiral into chaos that is all manageable.

Once you lock in, it can get really addictive,
you want just one more pit run all the time.
You can feel like a stockbroker the way
your numbers to keep going up.

That said, it does come without its limitations.

Although the city building element adds a break between your pit runs, it can be a tedious part of the game and not as engaging as the combat it is intended to support and break up the routine.

Still, Ball x Pit understands exactly what it needs
to bring the player. Momentum almost like
an unstoppable ball. And it delivers that momentum effortlessly.