Ball Torment Steam Charts & Stats

Every once in a while, a game comes along that redefines the medium. Ball Torment is not that game. What it is, however, is a deeply spiritual experience—if your idea of spirituality involves repeatedly getting flattened by physics objects while sprinting up an infinite ramp as a dead-eyed woman in yoga pants. Made in Unreal Engine (yes, really), Ball Torment is the kind of project that feels like it was either a student assignment turned fever dream, or the result of a dare in a very niche game dev Discord. The premise is elegantly simple: run up a ramp while dodging giant balls. That’s it. That’s the game. No power-ups, no checkpoints, no plot. Just you, the ramp, and the relentless judgment of gravity. And the balls. So many balls. The visuals are, let’s say, committed to a certain look—somewhere between “default asset pack” and “lost PlayStation 2 tech demo.” The animation on the protagonist is so stiff it might be motion captured from someone who's actively being tased, and the collision detection feels like it's running on vibes. Yet, somehow… it's kind of brilliant. There’s an almost zen-like absurdity to it. It’s Dark Souls if Dark Souls was stripped of story, skill trees, and polish—and replaced with an uphill treadmill of physics-based suffering. There's no tutorial. No hints. Just the purest distillation of "good luck, loser." So, is Ball Torment a good game? Absolutely not. But is it memorable? Uncomfortably so. Final Score: 10/10 Because I can't stop playing it and I’m starting to worry that says more about me than the game.