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Ballance

Race your way to the finish line and overcome 12 courses to become the master of marbles! In this 2004 classic originally published by Atari™, you will navigate 12 sky-high courses. Each course is fraught with different obstacles that will block your path, slide your marble off course, or blow them right into the bottomless void below. Use different strategic advantages to overcome these puzzles while avoiding dangers that can knock your marbles into certain doom — all of which must be accomplished before the time runs out! This wildly addictive puzzle platformer allows you to change your marb

Release date
January 5, 2024
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Cyparade
Publisher
Ziggurat Interactive
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★ 8.2/10GOG · 51 ratings
GOGLast checked October 31, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 2 / 5
The game is in version 1.0.0 and it runs in German for some reason. The Atari logo still shows up at the beginning even though…
★ 4 / 5
It is exactly the same game as published by Atari. It is not a real development/remake... it is a patched version. It is patched/cracked to…
★ 5 / 5
I played this a long time ago. Glad to see it on sale here again. A very relaxing and challenging ability game.
★ 5 / 5
This game is a 10/10 if you have played it in your childhood. As is, it is a fun little distraction that you could beat…
★ 5 / 5
This game made kindergarten cool. Naturally, I must review it as a 5 year old would.
★ 5 / 5
That was one of the first games I looked for after signed up at GOG. Very nice, and still playable on modern PCs
★ 3 / 5
In game textures and skyboxes simply do not load. All the geometry appears as plain white and grey, on top of a pure white background.…
★ 5 / 5
Ran on Aspire V3-372. The only problem was that the screen is stretched out from 4:3 to 16:9, but it's not a big deal. Find…

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★ 4 / 5
Good old game, great for any ages. I give it 4 stars out of five because it doesn't support a joystick/controller out of the box.…
★ 3 / 5
Ballance is a physics-based game where you guide a ball along a tricky surreal track somewhere high in the sky. Sometimes you are allowed and…
★ 5 / 5
I love this game since the first time I saw it. It is very entertaining and requires thinking to solve all the puzzles to advance…
★ 5 / 5
Was a bit of a tizzy to get Ballance running on Linux; but I found that GE-PROTON9-11 runs it perfectly (once its running); but with…
★ 5 / 5
old games were better. I really miss going to blockbuster and playing this as a kid.
★ 5 / 5
…as all games should be. Balance is a reminder that there are different genres of video games, and this is a 3D puzzle game; one…
★ 5 / 5
I remember playing a (not legitimately bought) version of this as a kid. It has a certain meditative property that kept me sane during some…

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