I recently played through a demo for a game called Pinball Spire on steam, and it put me in the mood for playing pinball games. Unfortunately, and I don’t know if this is just due to me having bad google-foo, there don’t seem to be that many on Steam that catch my interest.
So figured I may as well make a thread asking about what the “state of the art” of pinball video games is. Some of the ones I’ve played:
- Sonic Spinball: Very janky, but very unique and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone try to do anything similar to it.
- Pokémon Pinball and Sonic Pinball Party: Fairly standard pinball games, tbh. They’re both on handhelds so they can’t do that much.
- Demon’s Tilt and Xenotilt: Just really fun feeling arcade pinball games with a really fun tilt mechanic.
So yeah, know any good PC or console pinball games?
Oh, and can someone help me: I vaguely remember seeing a stream of a pinball game for the Mega Drive/SNES where the ball goes through multiple tables. Does anyone know what that game was called, if it even exists?
I play a lot of Pinball FX and Pinball FX2. The only downer is that they’re huge downloads, even if you only own a few tables.
While you’re looking for a good pinball game on PC and console, play Vector Pinball on your phone:
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.dozingcatsoftware.bouncy/
It’s simple and fantastic.
This comment isn’t helpful, but I really love Demon’s Tilt. I appreciate this post and the suggestions here!
Yoku’s Island Express might be up your alley- it’s part platformer, part pinball, and it’s on sale.
Metroid prime pinball was incredible, especially with the use of the rumble pack. Underrated accessory for the DS.
Made by the same team as the Pro Pinball games, which is why it’s so darned good.
