Разработчик: One Buck
Описание
You will be challenged to defeat the pool cues and cross the table before time runs out.
And in some moments, choose which way to go. But these choices depend only on your intuition (luck).
But at every table you will have all the other balls cheering for you.
They will mourn your defeats, applaud your progress and celebrate your victories.
Features:
- 10 levels
- Countdown
- Enemies
- Progressive difficulty
- Average of 3 hours of campaign (can easily be more)
- Easy controls
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7/8/8.1
- Processor: Intel i3-3220 or AMD FX-4300
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GT 630 or AMD Radeon HD 7650M
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 660 MB available space
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i7 7500U or AMD FX-8350
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 550ti or AMD HD 6970M
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 670 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
I HATE THIS GAME I WANT TO SHOVE THIS SHIT UP A COWS ARSE AND FEED THIS TO A FUCKING BABY THATS 3 DAYS OLD THE MUSIC MAKES MY EARS BLEED WHERES THE FUCKING OPTION TO TURN THIS SHIT DOWN I WOULD RAVER WATCH MY PENIS SLOWLY DISINTEGRATE IN THE MOST PAINFUL WAY POSSIBLE THAN PLAY THIS GAME I WOULD RAVER WATCH MY HOLE BLOOD LINE GET GANG BANGED BY HITLER SATAN AND FUCKING SADDAM HUSSEIN DON"T PLAY THIS GAME OR YOUR GAY
You know what forget leaving meme reviews, this game fucking sucks. Don't play it. Seriously, don't.
“An Odyssey of Emotion in Two Dimensions”
8 Ball is not just a game—it is an emotional pilgrimage wrapped in the guise of a 2D platformer. On the surface, you are simply guiding an 8 ball across various stages, but beneath that simplicity lies a profound examination of life’s struggles, the burden of choice, and the inevitability of momentum, both literal and metaphorical.
As you nudge the 8 ball over ramps, across floating platforms, and through puzzling mazes, you start to realize that you are not just controlling a sphere—you are navigating the labyrinth of your own psyche. Each jump and roll is a visceral reminder of the delicate balance we all maintain between inertia and progress, between moving forward and succumbing to gravity’s pull. The levels themselves, sparse and unforgiving, mirror the emotional landscapes we traverse every day: full of unexpected gaps, moments of freefall, and the occasional bump into walls we never saw coming.
What 8 Ball does better than most games is convey the weight of existence. With no extra lives, no power-ups, and no hand-holding tutorials, you are left alone with your thoughts, much like the 8 ball itself—forever rolling, forever searching. The minimalist design invites contemplation. The quietness of the game world—no background music to guide your emotions—encourages introspection. The only sound accompanying your journey is the gentle click of the ball against hard surfaces, like the ticking of time itself, reminding you of life’s slow, inevitable progression.
Perhaps what stands out most about 8 Ball is the way it tackles the idea of failure. You will fall. You will restart. But isn’t that what life is? A series of falls and restarts, a constant battle to find your footing, to keep rolling despite the obstacles? The game’s refusal to provide checkpoints isn’t a flaw; it’s a stark commentary on how real growth comes from pushing through without safety nets.
And the physics—oh, the physics. Some may say the controls are stiff, the movement imprecise, but what they fail to see is that these mechanics are a metaphor for how we often feel in life—awkward, hesitant, unsure of which way to turn. Each movement is heavy, as if the 8 ball is not just carrying itself but also the collective weight of every unresolved issue you’ve ever buried deep within. The game invites you to feel that heaviness, to confront the fact that sometimes, we are all just rolling forward with no clear path ahead.
8 Ball is a reminder that life’s journey doesn’t need to be adorned with flashy visuals or grandiose narratives to hold meaning. Sometimes, meaning is found in the struggle itself, in the simple act of rolling toward something—anything—no matter how uncertain or unstable the ground may seem. It’s a game for those who understand that progress is not always measured in leaps but in steady, sometimes frustrating, incremental movements.
In the end, 8 Ball is more than a 2D platformer. It’s a meditation on the human experience, on the unstoppable force that is time, and on our ability to keep rolling despite all the obstacles thrown our way.
10/10. Would roll through existential dread again.
Uhhhhhhh…. I’m killing myself
8 Ball is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one seems to be some kind of tech demo or homework project. You control a billiards ball with legs across a pool table themed obstacle course. It's very on-theme, at least.
One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The game assets are fairly mediocre/low quality, in some places they appear mismatched... Ultimately the quality of these assets, and thus the overall visual quality is lower than average, and low quality always makes for a less than optimal gaming experience. Remember, we're looking for the best of the best of 100,000+ games on Steam.
The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.
The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed. Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing. They dropped the ball on this one.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 8 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
8 Ball is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | One Buck |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 21.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 77% положительных (48) |