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Bang-On Balls: Chronicles

Exit Plan Games · Untold Tales · 2023-10-05

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Mar 05, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Mar 05, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 03, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 05, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Oct 05, 2023 (Xbox One), Oct 05, 2023 (Nintendo Switch)

A quirky, absolutely content-packed, destructible open-world sandbox adventure with combat, platforming, character customization, and collect-a-thon scavenger hunt experience. Play solo, 2-player split screen, or online co-op for up to 4 players. No paid cosmetic DLC nonsense.

Bang-On Balls: Chronicles is a $24.99 Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2023, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 5183 reviews).

8
playing now
96%
positive of 5.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
89/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
4.01★
PlayStation Store rating (2,291 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

You are a bouncy ball intern working at one of the biggest movie production companies in all of Bobbywood. But in this town, it's Bob Boss who's the big star. An old timer at the top of the system, and... a bit of a jerk. Nobody has had the guts to put him in his place, except maybe you? See Bobbywood change as you jump between various historically inspired worlds and rewrite the events of some of Bob's most iconic movies. Explore the Viking era the Space Race, the Golden Age of Pirates and Feudal Japan as you unlock secrets, complete objectives and smash everything in you path along the way (Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

Bang-On Balls: Chronicles trailer thumbnail

Bang-On Balls: Chronicles: Launch Trailer | PS4 Games

≈756,623 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 8 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 209 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~26/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 7% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 104k–233k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,183 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GreenManGaming$7.18-71%
GamersGate$8.75-65%
GOG$8.75-65%
Microsoft Store$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.15 at GreenManGaming (2026-05-16) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 160 of 210 observed days · $1.03 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
37937920212026Week of 2021-03-01: 379 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 335 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 329 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4762026-09-15 13:00 — 28 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 7 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 16 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 47 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 28 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 7 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 9 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 9 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 23 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 27 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 18 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 11 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 25 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 18 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 19 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 21 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 23 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 7 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 10 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 26 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 10 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 9 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1636Mar 2021Aug 2026Mar 2021 — avg 32 · peak 106May 2021 — avg 6 · peak 23Jul 2021 — avg 8 · peak 22Sep 2021 — avg 8 · peak 24Nov 2021 — avg 8 · peak 28Jan 2022 — avg 18 · peak 46Mar 2022 — avg 18 · peak 47May 2022 — avg 13 · peak 53Jul 2022 — avg 25 · peak 140Sep 2022 — avg 45 · peak 185Nov 2022 — avg 22 · peak 57Jan 2023 — avg 34 · peak 103Mar 2023 — avg 23 · peak 86May 2023 — avg 21 · peak 61Jul 2023 — avg 19 · peak 49Sep 2023 — avg 29 · peak 108Nov 2023 — avg 53 · peak 194Jan 2024 — avg 45 · peak 139Mar 2024 — avg 34 · peak 186May 2024 — avg 51 · peak 278Jul 2024 — avg 35 · peak 87Sep 2024 — avg 22 · peak 59Nov 2024 — avg 21 · peak 78Jan 2025 — avg 29 · peak 89Mar 2025 — avg 21 · peak 63May 2025 — avg 22 · peak 83Jul 2025 — avg 24 · peak 64Sep 2025 — avg 19 · peak 74Nov 2025 — avg 20 · peak 75Jan 2026 — avg 26 · peak 67Mar 2026 — avg 20 · peak 57May 2026 — avg 16 · peak 47Jul 2026 — avg 29 · peak 87Aug 2026 — avg 23 · peak 68
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$6.152021-03-032026-10-152021-03-03 — best price $14.992022-10-25 — best price $15.392023-06-19 — best price $21.992023-10-05 — best price $14.992023-12-05 — best price $10.992024-01-24 — best price $24.992024-03-01 — best price $24.992024-04-08 — best price $24.992024-05-24 — best price $24.992024-06-28 — best price $16.792024-08-03 — best price $18.362024-09-18 — best price $21.992024-11-01 — best price $10.242024-12-03 — best price $18.362025-01-21 — best price $21.992025-03-13 — best price $9.992025-04-18 — best price $21.992025-06-17 — best price $18.892025-08-04 — best price $18.892025-09-22 — best price $24.992025-10-27 — best price $18.892025-11-24 — best price $8.752026-01-01 — best price $24.992026-01-30 — best price $24.992026-03-02 — best price $18.892026-03-30 — best price $24.992026-04-21 — best price $6.992026-05-22 — best price $24.992026-07-02 — best price $8.742026-07-31 — best price $6.192026-08-19 — best price $7.182026-09-07 — best price $8.752026-09-22 — best price $24.992026-10-07 — best price $8.752026-10-15 — best price $7.18
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
37.7%
earned "Hold the whistle button to..."
2.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing2 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-10-05 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)3,27344%27
PS4 (PlayStation)1,61354%27
Steam (Steam)1,36612%26
Xbox One (Xbox)28119%26
Switch (Nintendo)220%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Co-opFunnyActionCombatPhysicsSandboxAdventureOpen WorldExplorationLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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