Polyball

Polyball

Skip · Action · 2017

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 26, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
4.3h
Value
$0.93/hr
Reviews
69% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
4.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
11.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.93
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$3.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
69%
1,222 reviews, as of Sep 23
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870 / Intel HD Graphics 4000, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Get ready to enter a new era of physics platforming. Polyball is a classic ball rolling game in the vein of Super Monkey Ball, Marble Madness, and Marble Blast - while taking cues from games such as the Sonic series, Trackmania, and Mario Kart.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.93/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement7% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews69% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length4.3 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 36 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $0.67. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 25 in the 11 years tracked, about 18 weeks apart.

It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 75 percent. On the same math Marble It Up! Ultra ($29.99, scores 71) and PANZER BALL ($4.99, scores 68) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

4.3 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.

The drop-off

56% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 4.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 02:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Polyball scores 26/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/368180/polyball
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperStudio Monolith
PublisherStudio Monolith
GenreAction
Released2017
Achievements33