Devolver Digital has revealed Ball x Pit, a brick-breaking, base-building survival roguelite that appears like the following indie time sink I am unable to wait to leap into. There is a demo out right now on PC, and it is launching on Xbox Sequence X/S, Change, and PC someday this yr (this is hoping it makes its method to PlayStation 5 at some point, too). This was revealed as a part of right now’s Devolver Direct, which went with a distinct method to its summer season showcase this yr.
As a substitute of the zanier off-the-wall antics of the annual summer season Devolver Direct, which often comprises a number of bulletins, it launched a documentary known as “BALL x PIT: The Kenny Solar Story,” alongside a trailer for the sport.
You possibly can view the Ball x Pit reveal trailer for your self under:
“In Ball x Pit, Ballbylon has fallen,” a press launch reads. “After a meteoric and fully surprising occasion annihilated the nice metropolis, all that continues to be is an ominous, yawning pit. Treasure hunters far and vast flock to the town’s tomb to hunt their fortune, plundering the depths looking for Ballbylon’s scattered riches. Few return.
“The pit performs host to armies of barbaric creatures, hellbent on ending your quest earlier than it even begins. Armed with a rising arsenal of magic-infused projectiles, batter your means by a number of ranges of more and more difficult obstacles to assert the last word prizes and rebuild New Ballbylon. With each glob you lob, achieve useful expertise to develop overpowered spitball combos, and recruit further heroes to unlock new abilities to ship the gutter-dwelling goons packing.”
As you may see within the Ball x Pit trailer above, it fuses fairly a couple of completely different gameplay mechanics to create a roguelite. There’s basic brick-breaking motion (with Vampire Survivors-like explosions of numbers everywhere in the display screen), base-building, and survival gameplay, all morphed into one expertise as you try run after run. It options over 60 randomized balls to equip, 70 distinctive buildings for New Ballbylon that present gameplay bonuses, power-ups, and characters, and extra.
You possibly can check out Ball x Pit on PC by way of a brand new Steam demo proper now earlier than it launches on Change, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC someday this yr.