I really enjoyed surreal roguelike Ball X Pit when I reviewed it earlier this month—so it's great to hear that it's since gone on to be a huge hit. According to a post by the developer on Bluesky, ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

Launched on October 15, 2025, BALL x PIT from Kenny Sun and Devolver Digital has quickly become the indie hit of the fall season, smashing past 25,000+ current concurrent players on Steam. This ...

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 ...

I find myself growing more and more tired of roguelikes lately, and I don’t really believe in “guilty pleasure” as a concept. But if you held a gun to my head and asked me to identify my gaming guilty ...

Made by solo dev Kenny Sun and published by Devolver Digital, Ball x Pit is billed as a “brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite where heroes must find the balls to plunge deeper ...

Ball x Pit is a fiendishly good time. The frenetic blend of Breakout and Vampire Survivors is easily one of the best games of the year. It’s immensely replayable. However, one reaches a point (after ...