Neverball, a unique platforming experience

If you ever visited an arcade or a fair, perhaps you’ve seen a certain unique game.

You get a maze board, with a ball in it. You have to guide the ball into the hole by tilting the board carefully.

Remember how difficult it was to accomplish that?

Now, imagine that, just 100x more insane.

Welcome to Neverball, the most tilting tilting game in existence!

The premise of the game is rather simple. You have your ball, so that makes three. You tilt the field, guiding your ball in search of coins. Once you obtain enough coins, get to the goal to beat the level!

The concept of the game is fairly simple. Beating the game, however, is anything but!

Good luck beating this!

I wasn’t kiddin’. This is one of the hardest levels, though. However, don’t be fooled, even the earlier levels can be quite a challenge for the unprepared.

The level selection screen. 3 batches of levels made by the developers, plus some extras bundled with it.

Neverball Easy can be thought of as a Tutorial, teaching you how to handle various types of obstacles you will face later on.

Or you can play bumper cars!

The game really nailed the “Easy to learn, hard to master” principle. Whenever you die, it’s clear as to why. There is no RNG, no unfair mechanics to worry about. Just you and your keyboard.

Just remember to be patient. Don’t rush the first few levels, instead get used to the controls, so when the harder levels come, you’re ready to take them on lickity split!

I choose to be an idiot and fly off small elevation, WEEEEEEEEEE!

The graphics in this game are fairly simple, and pleasant to look at. There is enough variety to keep your eyes pleased for a good while.

Space panorama, how beautiful!

What’s also pretty cool is that you can choose one of many skins for the ball!

Gives new meaning to rolling your eyes.

The music, on the other hand, is nothing special. Some electronic beats that I can’t remember for the life of me. I guess it can hype you up a bit, if anything.

When it comes to obtaining the game, Linux players should expect to find it in their repositories, as it’s a rather popular arcade Linux title.

If you can’t find it, or you use Windows, check out here!
https://neverball.org/download.php

The game is overall a blast to play, and in the past few days I’ve often come back to it during my work breaks for short and sweet sessions.
Now that you’ve read this, why not as well?