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Balls of Steel cover art

Balls of Steel

Big Boat Interactive · Atari · 2024-01-30

Steam

CasualSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jan 30, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Balls are Back! The legendary 90s pinball game Balls of Steel returns to PC in all of its radical retro glory. Play through 5 classic top-down pinball tables and two BRAND NEW tables in classic BoS Style! Get 7 awesome retro tables in one package, rebuilt to run on modern PC hardware!

60%
positive of 60 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$8.99
steam price (US)
Balls of Steel is a pinball computer game developed by Wildfire Studios and released on December 12, 1997. It is the only game to be published under the Pinball Wizards label, a division of Apogee Software.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 20,860 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.2k–2.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 60 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at GOG (2015-12-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 10 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820242026Week of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$1.492015-01-012026-09-032015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-05-12 — best price $39.992015-05-16 — best price $5.992015-05-19 — best price $5.992015-09-07 — best price $5.992015-11-28 — best price $5.992015-12-28 — best price $1.492016-01-01 — best price $24.992022-05-10 — best price $1.992022-06-20 — best price $1.992024-01-30 — best price $8.992024-03-21 — best price $8.992024-06-10 — best price $8.992024-07-11 — best price $8.992024-09-06 — best price $8.992024-10-28 — best price $8.992024-12-04 — best price $8.992025-01-02 — best price $8.992025-02-17 — best price $8.992025-03-20 — best price $8.992025-03-30 — best price $8.992025-05-23 — best price $8.992025-07-10 — best price $8.992025-08-22 — best price $8.992025-09-28 — best price $8.992025-10-06 — best price $8.992025-12-03 — best price $8.992026-01-05 — best price $8.992026-01-28 — best price $8.992026-03-26 — best price $8.992026-04-11 — best price $8.992026-05-30 — best price $8.992026-07-09 — best price $8.992026-07-20 — best price $8.992026-09-03 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3482026-06-29 — 23 pageviews2026-07-02 — 31 pageviews2026-07-05 — 17 pageviews2026-07-08 — 19 pageviews2026-07-11 — 12 pageviews2026-07-14 — 23 pageviews2026-07-17 — 28 pageviews2026-07-20 — 16 pageviews2026-07-23 — 15 pageviews2026-07-26 — 28 pageviews2026-07-29 — 16 pageviews2026-08-01 — 10 pageviews2026-08-04 — 25 pageviews2026-08-07 — 13 pageviews2026-08-10 — 14 pageviews2026-08-13 — 24 pageviews2026-08-16 — 18 pageviews2026-08-19 — 16 pageviews2026-08-22 — 18 pageviews2026-08-25 — 9 pageviews2026-08-28 — 11 pageviews2026-08-31 — 16 pageviews2026-09-03 — 22 pageviews2026-09-06 — 23 pageviews2026-09-09 — 15 pageviews2026-09-12 — 11 pageviews2026-09-15 — 23 pageviews2026-09-18 — 21 pageviews2026-09-21 — 12 pageviews2026-09-24 — 15 pageviews2026-09-25 — 14 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenPartial Controller SupportRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2D1980s1990'sArcadeCasualCartoonPhysicsCartoonyColorfulTabletop

Census log

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

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