DEMON’S TILT
The Developer has proved that the impossible can be achieved; to actually refine an already perfect game and make it even better with every subsequent update. Pinball goes back decades and the game that Demon’s Tilt is based on is actually around almost thirty years old. The Pc Engine hosted some amazing shooters (including it’s almost arcade perfect version of R-Type), Gunhed and the aforementioned Devil Crash, which was the best occult themed pinball game ever created and nothing could ever come close UNTIL Demon’s Tilt emerged nearly three decades on the heels of Devil Crash. Three decades is a very long time to wait for a worthy successor and surprisingly, nobody tried to replicate or improve on Devil Crash until now…first enter the developer of Demon’s Tilt and later the publisher who came on board and the game went from being pretty special to nigh-on-perfect with scaling, rotation, tons of large hand drawn sprites, shmup elements and the occult. Wow, this is like winning the lottery and every time you play this utterly stunning pinball game you are constantly rewarded with more discoveries and higher scores. The table is good stretching up three screens high and the mood is dark but when things liven up it does get hectic and very colourful. The music is straight out of a Megadrive/Genesis but the core game remains true to the Devil Crash formula. Occult pinball just got better and gets better with every update, the developer has to be seriously applauded for making the impossible happen, can you get better than perfect? He has proved that you can with a resounding YES. Every update of Demon’s Tilt either tweaks or adds something new. And we haven’t even left EA yet. For the price, you get the best pinball on Steam and for your time, you get happy memories created in seriously wanting to beat your high score again and again. Going retro with Occult Pinball with hints of Saturn, Neo Geo, and Playstation thrown in. The epitome of the perfect video pinball game 100/100 and it just keeps on getting better.
– Real player with 31.1 hrs in game
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DEMON’S TILT
DEMON’S TILT is a retro-stylized pinball on a huge 3 sections table. I’ve played with Xbox controller and I believe it’s much more comfortable than keyboard for this game.
I can say only positive things about DEMON’S TILT:
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Gameplay is very addictive and the game is a great fun for short playsessions
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Cool music/sound effects
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Game looks really good + there’s plenty of settings to adjust visuals/colours
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I’m not super impressed by bosses in a current state, but the whole table in general is absolutely awesome.
– Real player with 22.6 hrs in game
Momonga Pinball Adventures
Broken physics would ruin the most charming Pinball game in existence
Pinball Adventure games don’t need real physics. They don’t simulate the real machines.
The genre is mostly centered about exploring multiple areas, through some crazy level design, Doing all kinds of busy work along the way. Interactables, mini games, collectibles.
here’s the thing, Sonic Spinball, Mario Pinball, even Pokemon. They didn’t had real physics, but they were consistent and balanced and functional at all times.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Momonga Pinball Adventures is a casual pinball hybrid game and is similar mechanically to games like Sonic Spinball. It is not a “real pinball game”.
It’s cute and relatively polished. The art is nice and clean.
Gameplay
There are 9 story levels, which are quite short and simple, consisting of multiple playfields divided by checkpoints that are unlocked by completing goals on each playfield. Some segments involved the character flying through a scrolling area instead of being controlled by flippers as a ball.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Snowball!
I’ve had this game for a number of years now and even though I take breaks from it, I always find myself coming back to it. It’s a very nice diversion and quite a challenge at that. Many different things to discover on the table.
A basic pinball game it may be, but it is mighty in the enjoyment category. The game has two modes, a classic which basically is a “day mode” and also a night mode. There are many different ways to score, running over jewels, hitting drop targets and pine trees, a pong type of area, collecting mega jewels and making it to the castle at the top of the table via a circular power up lane.
– Real player with 14.3 hrs in game
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I tend to have high standards. But I also have low expectations, so I can be pleasantly surprised occasionally.
I didn’t expect much of Snowball! from looking at the store page. It looked like a simplistic little flash game (yes, it is flash), but, hey, it’s pinball, so I bought it anyway.
Turns out, it’s actually excellent!
There’s only one “table”, but it’s quite expansive (camera scrolls up and down), and the mechanics are surprisingly deep.
Basically, you collect jewels, which disappear as you roll over them with a snowball. There are also targets that disappear when you hit them. There are teleporter holes, gates (one that you can control), multiple launchers, multiple flippers, multiple multiball sources (one based on locks, and a quick one for hitting snowmen). Many trees that serve as bumpers. There’s a little breakout game in one of the mini-playfields. There are tesla coil magnets you can control to make the ball orbit around them. There’s an igloo and a castle. There are big fans you can control. There’s a little triangular bumper you can raise. There are acceleration lanes. There are score multipliers and streaks. Some targets and jewels appear when you do certain things. Mini-jewels respawn (as a different color) when you collect enough of them (it takes more each time). Megajewels respawn too if you manage to collect them all (not easy!) You can nudge (but it costs points). And probably something I’m forgetting.
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
BRAVE PINBALL
Pinball with a good twist.
Fun, enjoyable, challenging like a real pinball table - easy to start, hard to master. Sometimes are to tell where your character is on the flipper making shots not always go where you want, but definitely would recommend to pinball fans who are looking for something a little different, and RPG fans looking for a DnD style challenge.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
THE GAME
It’s pinball with a slight RPG twist to it and anime style graphics.
This is an enjoyable game with solid physics and gameplay. There are several boards that make up this game, and I’ve found that doing a backhanded flipper shot comes quire naturally. There are 16 goals to reach (called pieces in the game, which you collect).
For me the only downside is that you can’t nudge the table. Has controller support, although you can’t remap any of the controls.
I’ve done a play video (no commentary) of my first game if you’d like to see things for yourself. I have since reached some additional boards since recording this video :
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Creature in the Well
Panels;
Oozing with a mossy green, in the silhouette of an old machine, with mysterious songs ringing through hollow halls, and of beady eyes watching you from afar.
Then succumb - as does every engineer, into the never-ending trail of gears… of this well-oiled, unpreserved machine, the perfect provocation for a beast to kill.
But at its core, the beast remains, far too proud and of unearthly fame, and as the town Mirage has soon found out, this a storm that may never come to pass.
And so it goes, for the Creature in the Well, this the story of its ageless schemes and of our righteous revenge…
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
I love pinball, and I think it’s an underutilised game mechanism.
This game, as you’ll have gathered, uses this pinball mechanism, and brings it to a hack-and-slash-ish experience. You’ll probably die a lot, but that’s fine; shortcuts mean that getting back to your location usually takes 15 seconds or so.
Every “dungeon” focuses on particular mechanisms, and each is more gorgeous than the last. This game is a serious looker.
I think the first 70% of the game took me 8 hours, and the last 30% took me 1 hour. Two reasons for this:
– Real player with 9.5 hrs in game
Pinball Deluxe: Reloaded
DISCLOSURE: Since originally writing this review, I was invited to perform design and testing work for the game (mentioned below), for which I receive compensation. The essence of the review remains the same since initial writing. Original/updated review follows:
I wasn’t expecting much going in. It looked like a basic mobile pinball port.
But, no, actually, this is a serious effort. A very well made pinball game overall, with maybe a few rough spots.
The good:
- Clever table designs (some very clever like the baseball themed Fastball)
– Real player with 2365.2 hrs in game
As many of my Steam friends will attest I’m a huge fan of pinball, and this is one fine (and addicting) pinball game. In fact, I play this one frequently. The graphics are good, as are the sound effects.
GAMEPLAY
The flippers are responsive and the standard balls behave properly, with believable physics. There are upgradable Mods available for each table (except “Bagaball”) You also have the option to use a Powerball in place of a standard ball. Limit 1 Powerball per game. A Powerball cannot be used on the “Bagaball” table. During gameplay Tickets will periodically appear on the table in various places. Hitting a Ticket with your ball earns you a Ticket. It will then disappear and at some point later another one will appear somewhere else on the table. How many Tickets you earn this way solely depends on your skill. There is no limit. Hitting a Ticket with your ball does not affect the ball in any way.
– Real player with 124.1 hrs in game
Dungene
This is the Free Demo of Dungene, a Roguelite Action Sci-Fi game.
The game is set in a biology lab that studies the biological abilities of a subject, which is controlled by you, through various experiments. Twist and modify your genes to discover what you can become. Find out more about the lab and the experiments to discover what they want…
Game Features:
Dozens of Drugs, Genes, Drones, and Cores that can change every aspects of the Experiment Subject that you control!
Hack and Slash with all kinds of powerful or wierd weapons, and rip your enemies into pieces before they do that to you.
Charge and Crush other creatures with your unique ability, and see their blood flood the room!
Discover more about the lab through different expriments, or game modes in nother words, that have different rules, settings, and mechanics!
EXPECT MORE! This free demo only represent a tiny portion of the Early Access version of the game, which will be available THIS SUMMER!
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Flip-Out!
Flip-Out! is a challenging pinball game with a twist, the flippers can move! This combination of pinball and the Breakout-style gameplay of horizontal movement and brick breaking brings you a brand new way to play pinball with new challenges and strategies. Our first table, The Curse of Crab Cay, puts you in what should be a serene undersea grotto, but marauding pirates and ghostly skeleton crews overhead have disturbed the calm of the cay and it’s your job to assume the role of a local crab to restore peace and quiet. Hit your targets and you’ll get to face an even bigger threat!
Hyperspace Pinball
Meant to post this a while back, but steam was being cranky and didn’t let me so here goes again:
Hyperspace Pinball is awesome, I had a great time with it. I love pinball and innovative games, and this is both.
It’s obviously not a sim and it’s faster than normal pinball, but the physics are good and my real life skills translated well.
There are several modes and leaderboards, but the campaign mode is the meat of the game. There you destroy enemies until you open a timed portal to the next level, advancing until you reach the final boss.
– Real player with 21.4 hrs in game
Hyperspace Pinball is a quasi-Pinball simulator. It’s not completely faithful as it has random video game elements floating around on the screen.
Overall this was almost a good attempt at making a pinball game. While the graphics settings are rudimentary, they’re there, with support for 4K and even FSAA. The problem is more in the gameplay itself. Pinball sims rely on two main areas to succeed. Firstly, a good, robust physics system which accurately represents a real world table. Hyperspace doesn’t have that… the ball is janky and too light, and jitters when you hold it with the flippers. It feels wrong. Secondly, Pinball games need to accurately represent pinball tables. The tables in Hyperspace are very spartan and boring, relying on video game sprites to add interest. But these work against the game, as the tables aren’t predictable, the ball bounces off them randomly, removing the element of skill from the game and frustrating the player.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Pinball Evolution VR
I am updating my review posted Aug 2017.
5 out of 5 Stars.
My user on Pinball Evolution is TW
Pro’s
This game is great. First off you can sit down and rest your hands however your want because the only functions are to activate flippers and the plunger. Specific hand placement is not needed
It is extemely realistic the physics are spot on.
The developers are responsive to comments by players.
The sound and visual effects are perfect for the style of table.
The real improvment over actual pinball are the effects on the balls, changing colors, on fire etc.
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
Whew, stunningly spooky pinball, a perfect Halloween experience!
The surrounding environment is a bit too “dark and empty” in my opinion.
It feels a bit too disconcertingly spooky for me personally.
I’d prefer something a little warmer, like a room in a castle
with stone walls, perhaps a fireplace or wall-mounted torches,
a dragon curled up sleeping perhaps, with a view out the window
of some stars and village lights, instead of this very ominous-looking
empty dark arcade.
If you check out the nightime lighting settings that you can
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game