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Sadball

89% positive of 38 Steam reviews

Released: 2024
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by smallhex.

About the game

Chase pins as a bowling ball with dreamlike abilities in a surreal bowling alley.

Tagged by players

Bowling
Souls-like
Precision Platformer
Collectathon
3D Platformer
Interactive Fiction
Surreal
Platformer
Exploration
Arcade
Action-Adventure
Horror

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Positive

What players say

Recommended
I was having a downer of a day and came upon this game, really fun and so much to do. I got sucked into the game and forgot my day was such a downer. Now I'm trying to beat my best time. It's a new, old school feel adventure game.
6 min played when written. 15 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Currently having a bit of a love/hate relationship with this game but just for the expansive moveset alone I have to recommend it. It's not very user friendly, no real menu or options besides audio sliders, and no clear tutorial. That's usually not an issue for me, but this game is forced in 4:3 with a retro filter and I'd love the option to turn off the filter and play in wide-screen but... whatever, I can get over…
52 min played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 4 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
this should be a really cool game, but there's some weird things that work against this and make it a pain to play. for 1: this game has no options, no way to adjust sound or controls or whatever, or more importantly like an fov slider cause the fov in this game makes it super hard to play and tell where you are going to land. 2: there's no camera controls, not even like a center camera behind you button like single…
51 min played when written. 5 found it helpful.
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