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Player reviews
88% positive145 reviews
Runs on
Windows
Price
US$12.99

Where to get it

Switchball HD cover

2021 · Remaster · Atomic Elbow · Platformer · Puzzle

Switchball HD

Remaster

Transform the Marble ball with metal, electric and lighter-than-air properties to solve 3D puzzles based on real-world physics in the quickest time. More than 30 challenging levels!

Released
17 May 2021
Platforms
Windows
Genres
PlatformerPuzzleSimulationAdventureIndie
Developers
Atomic Elbow
Publishers
Atomic Elbow
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Third person
Themes
Action
Engine
V-Nuke
Age ratings
ACB GUSK 0PEGI 3ESRB ECLASS_IND L
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Features
Family SharingFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam CloudSteam achievementsSteam leaderboards
Time to beat
5hmain story10hcompletionist
›Story

Switchball is an inventive and fun puzzle-driven game based on real world physical interactions. Beautiful and elegant 3D graphics offer panoramic views of 30 incredible levels in 5 amazing worlds.

The game puts the player in the role of a marble, which is guided through a narrow winding course suspended in mid-air in five different worlds:

Skyworld, Iceworld, Caveworld, Cloudworld and Lavaworld.

The marble can be morphed into different balls with unique physical properties, like a Marble Ball, a Power Ball (which can be charged and have an accelerated "dash", a "jump" ability or switchable "magnetism" properties), a Steel Ball (which can push heavy objects around), and so forth. Each course contains obstacles and traps, such as wooden blocks, sheets of cloth, spinning fans, magnets, and cannons. The game uses physics-based puzzles as well, such as moving boxes; also, different balls react to the environment in different ways; Steel Balls, for example, will tear cloth platforms.

Each level is timed, and players are rewarded with Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, depending on how quickly they complete the level.

Switchball has received several awards over the years and is now relaunched on Steam as Switchball HD. Originally called Crazy Ball, the game won "Best PC Game" during the 2005 Swedish Game Awards and was a finalist in the "Technical Excellence Class" during the 2006 Independent Games Festival. Switchball also won Team Xbox XBLA Game of the Year in 2007.

Now, remastered in HD with updated textures and 3D models for PC and Windows 10!

This type of game never goes out of date!

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Media

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows17 May 2021Worldwide

Editions and related releases

Included in
Sir Whoopass & Switchball HD Bundle
Part of
Switchball
Remaster of
Switchball

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