It’s The Ball’s puzzles that make it unique and worthwhile. None of them are particularly brain-breaking (and there’s a hint button within reach at all times). Most amount to guiding your globe over obstacles to reach buttons, but they’re gently paced in a way that produces something calming and enjoyable (in between mummy attacks). You lead the lumpen sphere around like it’s a giant puppy, coercing it to do your bidding. The easy, intuitive fun of kicking your dynamically-lit, polished, multi-ton marble through the environment and watching the ballet of Newtonian physics play out is an adventure in itself.

It is an fun puzzel game whith good graphics imo and i would higly recommend it if you like to solve puzzels and if you don't you probaly be better whihtout this

The Ball constitutes mostly a puzzle game and is most reminiscent to Portal. You use the ball to solve the puzzles and crush your enemies. Enemies are more comic relief than actual challenges, unless the puzzle resolves around them (which it often does). The game really does implement everything imaginable with the ball, ranging from heating the ball with lava to giving the ball an anti-gravity field. The atmosphere is great, the setting being a combined Maya + Steampunk + Doom. The game's puzzles are sometimes close to challenging, but combined with the fact that you have infinite respawns and you don't lose progress even when you die, the game is smooth sailing. The campaign is promoted as 6 hours but I think I might have spend somewhere between 8 to 10 hours. I didn't time it though. I tried the survival levels for a short moment, but they didn't interest me too much after the campaign mode, so don't expect much replay from this game. Performance on my 2.33ghz dual core + ati HD5470 laptop was fine. It didn't lag on highest settings, though drops in framerate did occur (as one would expect).

Overall, great game for this price.

The Ball is a decent first person puzzle game. The game involves manipulating a giant ball with a handheld machine that has the ability to pull or push the ball (and to a limited extent, push other objects in the world).

The game takes place in an underground Aztec city, constructed out of a series of interconnected segments. Some of the great expanses of indoor caves are something to behold - from immense waterfalls to awesome lava oceans, the scenery is remarkable, especially considering this being an indie effort. Unfortunately, the level designs fall short. A lot of the locales, especially in the earlier stages, are of a very generic nature. Even in a few of the later stages, gameplay can become a bit stale, as there's no coherence in the structure of objectives. Without spoiling anything, too, the physics in the game involving certain objects (hint: it's a massive one you get to use in the last few levels) aren't as impressive as they should be. In fact, you'll sometimes find yourself hitting invisible walls.

The Ball is still fun despite its shortcomings, provided you approach it without expecting anything more than a puzzle game. It starts off quite slow, and it'll take a while before the game starts to pick up, but once it does, pardoning the generic level design, playing around with Ball can provide good fun, especially when you have to deal with hordes of oncoming mummies. For its price, you can do a lot worse. I'd give it 3.5, rounded up to 4.