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Ballance

Cyparade · Ziggurat · 2024-01-05

SteamGOG

Casual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 02, 2004 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In this 2004 classic originally released by Atari games, 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.

84%
positive of 477 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
6h
to beat · rushed 5h · completionist 10h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.09
steam price (US)
Ballance is a 3D puzzle video game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed by German studio Cyparade, published by Atari Europe, and first released in Europe on 2 April 2004. The gameplay is similar to Marble Madness, in that the player controls a ball via keyboard, moving it along a course while trying not to fall off the screen.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 86 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~11/week).
  • · Review velocity up 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 20,583 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.5k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 477 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.09-65%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.09-65%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.09 at Steam (2026-09-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 31 of 50 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10810820242026Week of 2024-01-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.66$2.092015-01-012026-09-262015-01-01 — best price $9.762015-01-15 — best price $9.262015-01-24 — best price $11.192015-03-07 — best price $10.832015-04-11 — best price $11.692015-04-30 — best price $11.102015-05-21 — best price $11.112015-07-08 — best price $12.332015-08-13 — best price $11.132016-07-07 — best price $10.302018-08-10 — best price $2.592024-02-22 — best price $5.992024-04-04 — best price $5.992024-05-08 — best price $5.992024-06-19 — best price $3.592024-08-07 — best price $3.892024-09-25 — best price $3.592024-10-17 — best price $5.992024-11-27 — best price $3.592025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-02-05 — best price $3.292025-03-08 — best price $5.992025-04-03 — best price $5.992025-05-20 — best price $2.992025-06-26 — best price $2.992025-08-02 — best price $5.992025-08-26 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $5.992025-10-28 — best price $2.992025-11-24 — best price $5.992025-12-11 — best price $2.692026-01-06 — best price $2.692026-02-04 — best price $2.692026-03-26 — best price $5.992026-04-30 — best price $5.992026-06-01 — best price $5.992026-07-15 — best price $2.392026-09-16 — best price $2.092026-09-22 — best price $2.092026-09-26 — best price $2.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

3DArcadeCasualPuzzlePhysicsAbstractTop-DownMinimalistPlatformerAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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