Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Oct 18, 2015

  The concepts for a solid game are all here, but this is very cheaply made, unpolished, and poorly balanced. Controls and physics are extremely sensitive, leading to you spending most of the game overcorrecting the ball's movement. I had to adjust the mouse sensitivity on a per-level basis. The mouse cursor leaves the game boundary when trying to whip the camera around too quickly. It's easy to accidentally click the mouse and restart the level. Everything has really basic textures, simplistic music, and stock sound effects. The game minimizes when you click away from it, which is pain when trying to stream it. This game is playable in the most technical sense of the word. It could've been a fun experience with more time and attention. You might enjoy it if you're looking to beat an obnoxiously challenging game out of spite. If so, good luck!
• gamedeal user

  Feb 26, 2017

  Unreal acceleration, unreal deacceleration, buggy interfaces, crashing game, ingame bugs preventing you to play and adds in a purchased game. This about sums up the game. Sooo, no, I don't recommand this game to anyone.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 30, 2016

  Do you want to be tested mentally and emotionally? then this is a game for you, in the form of a quick fix at a very attractive and fitting price. I'm currently half way through having completed 50 levels, and it is what it is in the moment - so not very memorable. The short marble traveling maps will ask for a little of your brain power while simultaneously testing and probably pushing your frustration and rage meter into overload as you hear the sound of an exploding ball ringing in your ears. Luck often brings an end to a level if not some extremely careful mouse control, and there is a feel of wanting more reward for your efforts of completion. There are short won moments of elation until you suddenly fill with dread at the thought of the next marble madness challenge. Recommended to play a short amount of levels in one session else you might lose the enjoyment of it.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 30, 2015

  Despite the thumbs-down, this is definitely a game a minority of people will enjoy (and I'm still trying to finish some of the final stages), but let me explain. If this title were cut down into about half, maybe two-thirds of the 100* stages, and they cherry-picked only the best, you would have an incredibly solid little puzzle game. The issue comes in that there are sets of levels I would refer to as "poorly designed".They're trial and error machines with no hints or ability to solve them short of flinging yourself to death on the course repeatedly. Examples would be multiple which start you at a high point, then give you a left or right direction to fall in. For one thing, the game's title is spot-on: your ball is fragile and tapping ANYTHING over a certain velocity will kill you**, so if you pick the wrong path: bam, dead. Alright, but then what happens when a level is nothing but left/right paths where you have to memorize which is correct and which isn't? Or a single left/right fall but one side has a cushion at the bottom to catch you (which you need to aim for precisely, those ain't big) and the other doesn't. And you have to blind-aim your momentum to land on something that's way off screen. I hope you're beginning to get my point here. But at the other end of the scale, there are stages which create some really fun challenges, where you have a full 360-degree playfield and you're working your momentum in platforming you don't see in anything else, managing momentum and angle of rotation and trying to find the exit before you can even maneuver down to it. When the game gives you the freedom in a stage to approach it however you like, it really takes off for a few minutes at a time. Also, I feel this needs to be stated: this game is ugly as sin, consisting of nothing but stock textures used over and over in eye-searing ways. I think there are under 10 textures in the entire game, and sometimes they will be backgrounds, sometimes foregrounds, and usually in clashing, jarring fashion. * I presume there are 100 levels. Where I'm currently at, around 15 tiles on a 100-tile board refuse to open up, whether I clear things adjacent to them or not. ** Except in "Super Ball" stages. These are poorly designed for other reasons, because you're invincible to physics damage in them, but basically controlling rubber and a lot of them involve precision-landings above hazard fields and slowing your momentum. It's not fun at all.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 24, 2017

  [i]Marble Mayhem[/i] is a limited, mediocre budget-bin game. But it knows this. That's why it's so cheap. On that basis, I can recommend it. It looked okay, it played smoothly (I suggest playing with the mouse, rather than a controller), and it didn't crash. Some of the levels are far too dependent on luck, but the stage menu uses a grid-based system that allows you to circle around levels you don't like. This is far from the greatest game on Steam, but it isn't Greenlight trash, either. It's a simple, limited game that could be fun for perhaps a half-hour or so and is priced accordingly. I can accept it on that basis.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 18, 2015

  Eh, I did find this game okay, so I would recommend this to others to just give it a shot. :) Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball is just a casual, 2D puzzle game that really reminds me of one of the toys that have similar functionality I used to have. This game contains 100 levels that may seem easy at first, but some of them can be difficult, providing you rather quite a challenge. The way you play is that you move your mouse to the left or right to rotate the screen for the marble to move in order to get from point A to point B. But it's not something as simple as getting from point A to point B, you also have to maneuver through obstacles that comes your way. You would have to avoid hitting spikes that exists in some levels and falling down too far to the point the marble shatters. The levels shouldn't be too difficult, [b]but if you don't succeed, try try again![/b] The graphics and the game interface aren't really the best, but not like it really matters. Oh and there's trading cards too if you want to craft more badges. [h1]Should you buy this game?[/h1] If you're just looking for a casual game, like 2D puzzles, or just wanting to make more badges from trading cards, then yes. Just give it a shot anyways! :) 6/10
• gamedeal user

  Mar 5, 2021

  If you enjoyed the physical version of this game when you were a kid then like me you will probably get some fun out of messing around in this digital version for a bit. Only $2 to test your patience!
• gamedeal user

  Jun 26, 2017

  This feels like it was designed for iPad or something else with an accelerometer. Maybe this is this case, maybe not. Regardless, it's crap on PC. Most of my playtime is leaving it on while I went to the bookstore because I realized it had cards after I deleted it the first time.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 19, 2015

  Amazingly great and challenging game. Each level have different way of play. And damn the ball is really fragile, it keeps shattered like a glass. WARNING! Might become a rage game for non-patience people.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 28, 2019

  Still a few levels to go, but some of them are nearly impossible for me... https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1847019100 This game is quite easy to understand and quite hard to master; I'm having lotta fun with it... Only wish some of those were easier or not totally luck-bound, because I see no way to 100% it. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1846333461