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Gooba Ball cover art

Gooba Ball

Mon Amiral · VchiBan · 2024-05-28

Steam

CasualIndieStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 28, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A physics-based puzzle game where you combine colorful balls to achieve the ultimate form -- Goober! Combine two of a kind until, like I said, Goober… What more to do you freakin’ want?

97%
positive of 634 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

Gooba Ball is a puzzle game that utilizes physics to achieve the highest score possible—all before you hit the limit, and it's game over! Use critical thinking to combine two heads of the same type.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 35 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (242 reviews).
  • · Top 18% of 16,430 Casual games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
23523520242026Week of 2024-05-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

7
achievements tracked
87.2%
earned "BALLS"
24.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportStatsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)87510%7

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

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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