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Action adventure meets pinball in this one-of-a-kind pinballvania adventure. When a mysterious spire appears from thin air, it's up to an intrepid pinball to bump, spin, shoot, and flip its way to the top and solve the tower’s mysteries!
Pinball Spire is a pinball, exploration and metroidvania game
developed by Apparition Games
and published by indie.io.
Released on October 02nd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 321 reviews of which 275 were positive and 46 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 13.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.98€ on Eneba.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or higher (64-bit)
- Processor: 2.8 GHz Quad Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 1050
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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(Follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42150626-Jarl's-Game-Treasury/]my curator for more reviews like this) Pinballvania is a bit of a misnomer. This game could have avoided a lot of the negative reviews by not marketing itself as something it isn't. It's a decent puzzle platformer styled as a pinball game, but it's not a metroidvania by any definition. You play as a little pinball ascending a spire to its peak. To get there, you have to overcome several puzzle rooms, each with unique challenges. On the way, you'll pick up new abilities like a bullet time style slowdown that lets you aim better, a fire ability that can light lamps and smash through enemies without stopping, and a speed boost that lets you smash through certain obstacles and/or make long jumps you could otherwise not. You also level up by killing enemies (just bounce into them), which increases your maximum mana. Mana is required to use abilities. Other than that, leveling up does nothing. You don't have health and can't take damage. The only risk you'll ever face is falling back down to the last level and having to crawl back up! Since this game calls itself a "pinballvania", I have to talk about its structure. Metroidvanias are all about interconnected open (or at least semi-open) worlds with ability-gated obstacles to overcome, secret areas to find, and plenty of backtracking. This game has none of that. Its structure is entirely linear: you ascend the tower room by room in a straight line. Once you've solved one puzzle room, you ascend to the next. There is never a situation where you travel between several rooms at the same time to solve one overarching puzzle, there is no significant backtracking, and no real optional side areas. There are a few secrets, but they're usually pretty obvious and on the same screens as the critical path forward. I only found one instance in the entire game where I had to return to a previously cleared area to get my hands on a secret I needed a newly unlocked skill for. Other than that, everything in a given room can be cleared with the skills you currently have. Beyond that one incidence (which happens very early in the game), there is never a reason to return to previous screens and try out your new abilities to see if they open anything you missed before. While there are several side areas, pretty much all of them are mandatory as you find your skill upgrades there. And once you return from these side areas, the path ahead just goes up again, a straight line from start to finish. If you expected metroidvania-style exploration, or a world in which you keep going back and forth to try new abilities in old areas, you will be disappointed here. This is a puzzle platformer with a strictly linear structure. It's not a "pinballvania" and describing it as such is only going to disappoint people who buy this expecting something structured like a metroidvania. As a puzzle platformer with pinball mechanics, it is a pretty solid game. There's a good variety of different puzzles and all the abilities you get are useful. It does take some luck to hit things correctly sometimes, but I didn't find the controls too bad. When you use the slowdown ability near a flipper, an arrow appears to show where your ball will go when you hit it. This makes it pretty easy to aim exactly where you need to go. You can also nudge your ball into different directions with WASD, and the booster skill gives your ball a big boost into the current direction it's going, so you do have enough tools for precision movement when you need them. That said, I somewhat agree with the negative reviews claiming that it's difficult to land many of the hits required. Some bouncers and holes you have to hit are quite deviously placed and require many tries and a bit of luck to hit. I didn't mind, because whenever I play a pinball game, there's a lot of luck involved anyway, ha. But if you expect really good pinball physics, there's better games for that. The puzzles themselves are fun to solve and some actually require a bit of thought instead of just mindlessly shooting whatever looks like the flashiest target. At 5 hours it's not a particularly long game, but there's enough here to entertain you for a couple of sessions. Just don't go in with the wrong expectations - this is no "vania" of any kind but a linear sequence of puzzle rooms. Also, wait for a sale, because the full price of 13,99€ is a little much for what you get here. I got it on a sale for about 7-8 bucks, which feels about right for a game like this. I would advise the dev to remove the term "piballvania adventure" from the description, because it's very misleading and is only going to disappoint people who expected something different from this. I know I expected something very different when I went in, but luckily it turned out to be good for what it is. It's just not what it claims to be.
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The main thing to keep in mind with Pinball Spire is that it is not a classic pinball game, but rather a puzzle platformer with pinball mechanics. There are no scoring or leaderboards, you simply advance from screen to screen in a fairly linear way until the end, which, without seeking achievements or extras, takes nearly 4 hours to complete. After that, it's clear that the game is of excellent quality, with detailed pixel art, a series of abilities that must be mastered in order to advance, a fitting soundtrack, and a very smooth gameplay experience. The only thing I could possibly miss is the addition of a conventional table with what's already there, but still, it's pretty good. Check out [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44959158-Critiques-Sans-Frontiers/] our curator page to discover more little interesting games.
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As with all the other reviews the game is very short running in at around 3 hours. It's still worth buying imo, but I also bought it at 30% off. Plays great on Steam Deck especially after changing the flippers from the bumpers to triggers, but maybe that's just me. The game looks and feels great. Graphics and music are good it just left me wanting more. If the devs came out with a sequel or some dlc and went a bit further with it I would buy 100%
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It's a cute game, but it's definitely not a -Vania of any kind. It's more of a pinball adventure than anything and it succeeds pretty well at that. It is cute, the tables are designed competently, but I was a touch surprised that the game was a touch shorter than I thought. I would recommend it, though, and that I am looking forward to future content if the developer decides to add more!
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I do recommend this game but I don't think it has enough content for the $15 price tag. It is more of a $10 game in terms of playtime and fleshing out the mechanics. The levels are good, but it definitely isn't a metroidvania. You have to go to all rooms in the game and pick up abilities in sequential order. There is no reason to go back to previous rooms unless you get stuck on one of the more annoying rooms and need to drop down to a save point for mana. Still worth a try and it is alluding to a sequel, but that sequel will need to improve on some of the lacking areas and add new mechanics/obstacles.
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Pinball Spire is currently priced at 13.99€ on Steam.
Pinball Spire is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 13.99€ on Steam.
Pinball Spire received 275 positive votes out of a total of 321 achieving a rating of 7.94.
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Pinball Spire was developed by Apparition Games and published by indie.io.
Pinball Spire is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Pinball Spire is not playable on MacOS.
Pinball Spire is not playable on Linux.
Pinball Spire is a single-player game.
Pinball Spire does not currently offer any DLC.
Pinball Spire does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Pinball Spire does not support Steam Remote Play.
Pinball Spire is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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