Ball X Pit is a relatively easy game to understand and one that will not let up as soon as players start. They will begin with one hero who will shoot their special ball and baby balls out ...

Early on, Ball x Pit creator Kenny Sun hadn’t found the secret sauce yet. It wasn’t until one huge pivot that he felt it was ...

Ball x Pit is one of those games that, once you play it, makes you wonder how it took this long to be made. It takes the classic gameplay of 1976’s Breakout and adds modern roguelite mechanics to ...

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Is 2025 the greatest year ever for exceptional indies? If you don't think it is, it's surely on the podium. Alongside the likes of Silksong and Blue Prince, Ball x Pit helps back up this year's case.

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

I first laid eyes on Ball x Pit at a presentation given by its publisher, Devolver Digital, in London back in January. I knew instantly that I had to play it. I was reasonably (or perhaps, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Video games have been exploiting players’ brains since the halcyon days of the arcade where every ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Callum is a seasoned gaming managing editor for a number of publications and a gamer who will always try to shine a spotlight on indie games before giving AAA titles the time of day. He loves nothing ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nearly 50 years ago, Atari published Breakout, a spin on the ball-bouncing gameplay of Pong where your opponent wasn't another player but rather an ...

I have a new, all-consuming obsession, and that obsession is Ball x Pit. I didn't set out to replace all my free time with grinding its roguelite take on Breakout, but its reliance on strategy (with a ...