Skip to content
Switchball HD cover art
Remaster

Switchball HD

PlatformPuzzleSimulatorAdventureIndie

Steam
Released

May 17, 2021

1,994 days ago
Platforms
  • PC
Ratings

Release dates

North America dates
  1. May 17, 20211,994 days ago
    • PC

About

Transform the Marble ball with metal, electric and lighter-than-air properties to solve 3D puzzles based on real-world physics in the quickest time. More than 30 challenging levels!

Trailers

Screenshots

Reviews

Game info

Released
2021 · see every game from that year
Modes
Single player
Perspective
Third person
Engine
V-Nuke

Editions, DLC & expansions

Other versions

Remaster of 1

Studios

Age ratings

  • ESRBENo content descriptors
  • PEGI3No content descriptors
  • USK0No content descriptors
  • CLASS INDLNo content descriptors
  • ACBGNo content descriptors

Languages

7 languages
Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Russian and 1 more
LanguageAudioSubtitlesInterface
Chinese (Simplified)简体中文––
EnglishEnglish (US)––
FrenchFrançais––
GermanDeutsch––
ItalianItaliano––
RussianРусский––
Spanish (Spain)Español (España)––

Themes & tags

Story & names

Switchball is an inventive and fun puzzle-driven game based on real world physical interactions. Beautiful and elegant 3D graphics offer panoramic views of 30 incredible levels in 5 amazing worlds. The game puts the player in the role of a marble, which is guided through a narrow winding course suspended in mid-air in five different worlds: Skyworld, Iceworld, Caveworld, Cloudworld and Lavaworld. The marble can be morphed into different balls with unique physical properties, like a Marble Ball, a Power Ball (which can be charged and have an accelerated "dash", a "jump" ability or switchable "magnetism" properties), a Steel Ball (which can push heavy objects around), and so forth. Each course contains obstacles and traps, such as wooden blocks, sheets of cloth, spinning fans, magnets, and cannons. The game uses physics-based puzzles as well, such as moving boxes; also, different balls react to the environment in different ways; Steel Balls, for example, will tear cloth platforms. Each level is timed, and players are rewarded with Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, depending on how quickly they complete the level. Switchball has received several awards over the years and is now relaunched on Steam as Switchball HD. Originally called Crazy Ball, the game won "Best PC Game" during the 2005 Swedish Game Awards and was a finalist in the "Technical Excellence Class" during the 2006 Independent Games Festival. Switchball also won Team Xbox XBLA Game of the Year in 2007. Now, remastered in HD with updated textures and 3D models for PC and Windows 10! This type of game never goes out of date!

Read the story

Also known as

  • switchball.exeWindows Executable

Release dates by region

1 release in 1 region

worldwide

  • May 17, 2021PC

You might also like

Where to find it

Data from IGDB and Steam. Critic scores from OpenCritic. Dates shown for North America, in your local time zone.