Zaccaria Pinball

Bought this long before the AI art, and just found out about it now. It should also be against the rules for a game to be in eARlY aCcEsS for years and release hundreds of items of paid DLC. The state of Steam is embarrassing.

I am beyond impressed. Maybe one day I will be able to understand the Zak continuum's glory.

It is AI generated trash now.

Between being in EA for 9 years, the long hiatus with no communication, using AI art, the achievement debacle and now the game not starting (just goes from play, to stop back to play never opening game) I cannot recommend this game at all. There are numerous reports of this issue and all the "fixes" did not work. Until they get their act together and actually address this issue it gets a "stay away" recommendation. I should not have to do work under the hood to get this game working, unreal.

Great

A great pinball game and now that the developers are back we are getting updates and new content again, great!
A must have for every pinhead imho! :)

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This game is still in early access for over 9 years!!!! Think about that.

While this game is fun and has fun tables it only got worse over time. AI replacing actual art made by people and now achievements are getting removed so there is space for new ones (and to sell tables!) Hard work earning achievements? Forget about it we will remove them!

After a long hiatus and no word whatsoever for years it comes back with AI Art and removing achievements. Sadly it has gone downhill because the pinball tables are good and this is one of the best pinball games on Steam.

There are a ton of tables, and I can use my VR headset. Now that I've played in VR, I can't play pinball any other way. It's just so good. Zaccaria doesn't have all the recognizable tables from my youth, but there's a hell of a lot of fun here. The physics are fantastic and the tables are well designed. I wish that some of the voice acting wasn't so bland (sounds like a guy sitting at a desk saying in a very unenthusiastic voice "bonus" and "double bonus" "skill shot" etc. I really want better voices. I would also love to see build-up modes that do something really special with the table. A good example is Black Out by Williams. That's not in this game, but that rather simply 80s pinball had a mode that once you got all the lights lit up on the eject hole, the game said in a robot voice: Blackout. Then all the lights went out with this very cool electronic sound, and they came back on and gave you a big score or something.

The build-up modes in this game don't seem to give you a big payoff visually or audibly. Plus, some are super hard to get.

Other than that, the original tables, the remakes, the special tables, and now the new ones being created... it's a dream come true for any pinball fan. My minor gripes don't take away from the full experience. A lot of love was put into this game and all the tables and if you love pinball, you'll love this. I didn't talk about the retro tables since I don't like any retro pinball tables. They're just not much fun in general. But Magic Pixel did a great job on those, too.

Got VR? - A must have for fans of the old arcades and pinball.

Being a long time fan of pinball over the years - getting the VR version of this a few years back was mindblowing.
The immersion is great and the controls are intuitive - it plays like real life, but you save a few quarters.
The tables are great in detail and look very realistic compared to other pinball games, especially the lighting and all the small effects, when set to nighttime, in my opinion. The subtleties in the ambience and the sounds from the table mix well together. On top of that there are a ton of settings to get everything just right, which I can appreciate.

Depending on how much one is willing to sink into buying all the tables, there is a great mix between old styles and more recent styles. I quite enjoyed trying my luck on some of the older tables and over time there are always tables that have that special feeling according to personal preferences.

I have yet to sink more time into this, but I totally recommend it for VR (Played on Oculus Rift).

Onward - to ever higher scores on the global leaderboards.

This is really good.

A mix of real world and fictional pinball tables with realistic light effects and physics.

Physics, camera angles and effects are all adjustable.

There's a also a pretty solid ranking system.

Pricing is super reasonable, especially during sales.

Easy to recommend if you enjoy Pinball in general.

Stay far away from those who pollute their games with AI "art" slop.

훌륭한 그래픽으로 재현된 레트로 감성의 다양한 핀볼테이블 시뮬레이션. 고전부터 현대까지의 핀볼에 관심있는 플레이어들에게 추천할만함. VR지원 역시 그 테이블 바로 앞에 서있는 듯한 현장감을 느끼게 해준다. 다만, 이 리뷰를 쓰는 시점에서 메타퀘스트3의 경우 스팀링크로만 동작하며 버데탑이나 메타링크는 오류가 있음을 참고할것.

A variety of pinball table simulations with a retro feel, recreated with excellent graphics. Recommended for players interested in pinball from classic to modern times. VR support also makes you feel as if you are standing right in front of the table. However, at the time of writing this review, MetaQuest 3 only works with Steam Link, and there are errors with Virtual desktop or Meta link.

even if you apologized and reversed it back to normal, i still wouldn't support this game, i'm so sick of people trying to get away with using AI. And to all the morons arguing that AI is ''just a tool'' grow the fxxk up, people steal art, other people's likeness to make deranged porn, stealing peoples voices even down to their behavior to maximize their profit, without any consent from any of the people.

the fact you tried to get away with it really shows how rotten you've become, you're losing sight of what you want this project to be, whoever is in charge should be ashamed to represent zacarria's legacy.

you asked earlier in your discord how to get zaccaria to a broader audience and its by working harder and actually listening to criticism, you tried with postal, and it was pretty good. You got insecure and your last resort was an update log which didn't state ai at all but ''an exciting revamp of visuals!'' seriously? If you need artists to draw hell i'd do it for free dude.

It feels like the only people who are supporting this AI nightmare are people who are only out to sell and not create art, in other words they don't have any passion and it shows. '' BUT IT LOOKS SO GOOD!!!! '' dude, the guy has a bunch of outlines on his face, the fingers look like my grandmas colonoscopy bag, the presentation is illogical, colors are inconsistent, everything looks like feces if you take a closer look, if you can't see it, i'll pay a visit for an eye check up.

you should have hired real artists, you should have opened up to your community more about the difficulties of your work, i bet some people who love this game would actually love to contribute. too late now.

so in conclusion, this game was great, with a fantastic vr port, and you were trying to get a lot of new sales by promising us things you can't actually do yourself so you just gave up and used AI? wow. what a waste, welcome to your own funeral.

There was a time I would have recommended this game despite the weird light feeling ball physics! But now that a fair few of the tables original artworks have been replaced by A.I art I can no longer do so. There is also the fact that this game has been in early access now for years with no indication that they will ever finish it. If you have money to burn on buying tables in a pinball game i would recommend PinballFX instead at least they are more transparent about what they are doing with the game.

It's a travesty to the hobby of pinball that these devs are the sole people providing access to the wonderful tables of Zaccaria for many people outside of Europe. The physics were already questionable at best and the rules descriptions of Zaccaria's original 70s and 80s tables were already lacking. Now, they have rejected the quality work of past human artists to turn their Retro and Remake tables into trashy AI-generated slop. Don't give Magic Pixel any support, monetary or otherwise; I regret that I have done so in the past.

I've had it with devs disrespecting customers.
They blocked Pinballwiz45b for asking and answering questions, on Steam forum and on Discord.
Get better Community Managers.

The game is nice on the surface, but the bugs and frequent crashing are incredibly frustrating. I cannot even play some of the tables I paid for because they crash the game every time I load them up. Devs tell players using AMD drivers (like myself) to "fix" the crashing by downgrading to older drivers, which is not only unavailable to me, but not fair or practical in the slightest; no attempt to support newer drivers and actually fix the crashing has been made, from what I've seen. Unfortunately, I had to refund all the DLC I bought, including the Postal tables, which I was really excited for but had the most issues with crashing. Somehow, pinball on a Wii emulator has been a more enjoyable experience.

Maybe not the slickest of pinball simulators, the ball physics are solid and some of the electro-mechanicals have a "real" feel. I haven't played any of the video games in this so I can't say if they're any good.

A competent low priced pinball simulation game, it has a good feel, could use some improvements on screen size and angle... for under $10 a fine game indeed.

VR is totally broken. It won't launch at all unless you figure out to lower the resolution via SteamVR settings. The tables then load as just a black void with red sparkles around your hands. It's baffling that they sell a VR bundle when VR doesn't work at all.

I like playing this game in virtual reality you can check out video gameplay using the link below and subscribe if you want to see more content from me in the future, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaGql27gtWY

Great selection of tables available for purchase, great preservation effort by the developers.
not every table's great, but most are!
some of the remake tables have terrible voice action tho, especially the spooky remake, but its playable regardless.