Game overview
THE CANON OF BALLS
Hardcore, co-op (or solo) platformer. Dark Souls makes a baby with Super Monkey Ball. An easy-to-learn, hard-to-master experience to explore with your friends. All inside a vast open world, with each platforming course bringing its own twist.
- Last tracked players
- 13
- All-time peak
- 25
- 24-hour change
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THE CANON OF BALLS is the hardcore, first-person platforming experience you and your friends have been waiting for. Imagine putting Shadow of the Colossus' PS2 aesthetics and Monkey Ball's gameplay into a blender and mixing them thoroughly. What comes out is an easy-to-learn, hard-to-master open-world multiplayer experience to explore and master together with your friends. A vast open world, with each platforming track bringing its own interesting twist, is waiting for you — all of this with no hand-holding. There are no minimaps, quest markers, or tutorials.
The game can also be completed in offline solo mode. No friends required.
I put a lot of work into the sound design to give the BALLS as much weight as possible, all to create a snappy gameplay experience with memorable juice. The world is fully "handcrafted" to be a non-repetitive, non-modular open world. I purposely didn't build a modular "copy and paste" kit to craft the levels. All of the parkour courses feature a specific idea, twist, or thought to make sure everything feels fresh in a different way. No AI art assets have been used.
From the start, I knew THE CANON OF BALLS should be something to experience with friends. Without setting any rules or multiplayer objectives, the world provides its own platform to give birth to fun, memorable, virtual togetherness. The premise was the good old days of playing Minecraft parkour maps and talking about all kinds of things while you struggled together. You can be competitive and see who reaches a crystal first, or play more cooperatively, navigating together and waiting for each other. The freedom is in the hands of the group, and I can't wait to see how you all choose to play it. The word "co-op" might be a bit stretched for the game, as there are no real mechanics that require multiple players—it all works solo. However, the true social moments are what make this experience so special.
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Minimum
Minimum:- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB VRAM) or AMD Radeon RX 590 (8 GB VRAM)
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Sound Card: 16-bit stereo with 48KHz playback
Recommended
Recommended:- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i7-10700K or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB VRAM) or AMD Radeon RX 590 (8 GB VRAM)
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Sound Card: 16-bit stereo with 48KHz playback
Game details Languages, features & support
- Publisher
- Helios Monk
- Brazilian rating
- 6
- Steam Germany rating
- 12
- Achievements
- 5
- Features
- Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op, Steam Achievements, Playable without Timed Input, Stereo Sound, Family Sharing
- Languages
- English
- Support
- [email protected]
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Decent deal at 25% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
Update Momentum
9 patches and 9 news items in last 180 days. Latest patch effect size: 0.00.
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Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 100th percentile.
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