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BALL x PIT

BALL x PIT

by Kenny Sun and Friends · Published by Devolver Digital

★ 95%
Price $14.99
Avg Players 1,364
Reviews 27,092
Released Oct 15, 2025
2DActionAction RoguelikeArcade
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BALL x PIT combines breakout-style brick-breaking with roguelite progression, where you control ricocheting balls to demolish enemies and gather resources from procedurally dangerous pits. Between runs, invest your loot into homestead upgrades, resource generation, and recruiting heroes to strengthen your next attempt. The loop rewards both skilled moment-to-moment play and long-term base-building, making it compelling for players who enjoy incremental progression mixed with action elements.

About this game

Players, last 30 days

Peak 2,355 · Low 733

Daily peak concurrent players, sampled once a night from Steam.

What players are saying

▲ Recommended 3 hrs
This game is kinda like those fake mobile ads you see everywhere except they had the balls to actually make it into a real game.
1211 found helpful Steam ↗
▲ Recommended 36 hrs
Yeah it's good. Maybe a little bit addictive? I would love to elaborate but need to get back to playing it.
385 found helpful Steam ↗
▲ Recommended 9 hrs
10 hours the first day says it all. this, megabonk and tower dominion and you're not gonna need trash AAA gaming for a good while
270 found helpful Steam ↗

Reviews are by Steam users, hosted on Steam.

Latest updates

BALL x PIT: The Naturalist Update is Available Now!

41 days ago
The final free update for BALL x PIT is here!The Naturalist Update, available now on all platforms, adds even more characters, Balls, and Passives to the game, greatly expanding the possibilities of a run.2 NEW CHARACTERSPlayers of Ball x Pit: The Naturalist Update will come across two new unlockable characters, each with opposite personalities.The Ballbearer doubles down on firepower (literally), giving you double the amount of ball slots to build an arsenal at the cost of giving up passive items entirely.The Hoary Hoarder takes the opposite approach, lugging around an oversized backpack stuffed with gear. They only have room for two ball slots, but make up for it with twice as many passive slots, letting powerful item Evolutions do the heavy lifting.11 NEW BALLSLightning Bug lights up the battlefield by spawning a firefly with every bounce. Each one seeks out the strongest enemy before zapping nearby targets with a burst of lightning.Mosquito Kingdom slowly builds a buzzing swarm, spawning one or two mosquitoes whenever it hits an enemy. The mosquitoes hunt down the weakest target on the field, dealing between 100-150 damage with each attack, and if one lands the killing blow, well, you simply recover a small amount of health back.Drill tears through enemies from behind, piercing straight through them and dealing extra damage along the way.Flesh starts off weak, dealing only half damage, but it rapidly increases in speed with every bounce until it becomes a blur tearing across the screen.Armageddon calls down a destructive meteor shower the moment it hits an enemy. The first impact marks the target, then flaming meteors rain across the area, dealing heavy damage to every enemy caught within a three-tile radius.5 NEW PASSIVESPlatinum Dumbbell rewards clean shots, giving your balls a damage boost that lasts until they finally collide with the back wall.Inglorious Hammer keeps the pressure on after a bounce, causing balls that hit a wall or the back of the arena to i...

BALL x PIT's Final Free Update Launches August 6!

50 days ago
We’re back, ball enthusiasts!As promised, our third and final free update for BALL x PIT is almost here.Balls are all around us and behave in unexpected ways in THE NATURALIST UPDATE, launching on August 6!The Naturalist Update adds:🧙 2 NEW CHARACTERS: The Ballbearer and The Hoary Hoarder⚪ 11 NEW BALLS: including Flesh, Offspring, and Petrify.✨ 5 NEW PASSIVES: like Ardent Tire and Windweaver.More info on August 6!Hope to see you all back in the pit.

BALL x PIT’s free The Shadow Update is available now!

142 days ago
Think you’re done with balls? THINK AGAIN. The Shadow Update is available now, free for everyone who owns the game, and brings with it 2 new characters, 11 new balls, and a whole lot more besides.11 game-changing new balls including some that can bend time, freezing enemies in place or teleporting unpredictably around them.2 new playable characters: the Tiptoer, a deadly ninja who stays undetected by enemies at close range, and the Tunneller, a miner whose balls don’t stop at the edge of the screen but wrap around it and come back in from the other side. 4 new Passives including the chaotic Full Metal Rapier, which sees each ball scaling its damage based on how many baby balls and enemies are currently on the battlefield, or the Arrow of Fate, which makes you immune to incoming projectiles and fires back a burst of baby balls whenever you’re hit.A new building to construct in your base: the Guildhall. Build one of these and you can re-roll previously chosen character upgrades.Remember to join our Discord server for support, the latest news, and general ball chatter.And don’t think this is the last you’ll hear from us - we’re not done yet. The third free update for BALL x PIT, The Naturalist Update, is coming in July.Until then, have fun, ball enthusiasts.

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