• The Ball
  

  13 hours playtime

  5 of 17 achievements

the ball starts out showcasing its weird storytelling and not-so-good voice acting, but then it shows off its nice (though mostly the same color) graphics and gives you the titular ball. then the puzzles start, and the puzzles are the part that kept me wanting to play almost all the way to the end. it was a little too long to hold my attention the whole time. i played all the way through the campaign but then didn’t have any interest in trying out the survival mode.

it almost feels like a co-op game where your partner is the ball. that’s actually pretty cool and they do some interesting things with it like sometimes lock the ball out of reach and suddenly you’re defenseless and just really want it back. it doesn’t feel mean or anything; you just solve the next puzzle either without the ball or by guiding it indirectly and then you get it back.

the puzzles don’t appear to have multiple solutions and the gameplay felt mostly linear, but the puzzles were still satisfying. i recommend checking out the ball to anyone who likes puzzle games and doesn’t mind if they don’t really have a story.