Road to Ballhalla

Road to Ballhalla

Fair · Action · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.5h 11h to 100%
Value
$6.00/hr
Reviews
88% of 429 positive
It needs 26% off ($11.03) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.03 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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
Replayability~11h to replay
Steam Workshop mods and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 2.5h main story
Engagement7% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$6.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 24 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

About the game

Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 550 GTX / AMD Radeon 5770 HD series card, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 88 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Get To Work ($12.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats DEPLOYMENT ($1.34, scores 51).

More about Road to Ballhalla

75 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The main story runs 2.5 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 4.4 times as long.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

82% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

I bought this game when 75% off, here are my thoughts pros : + very creative levels design like no other game, very fun to play + smooth controls + bug-free so far + workshop levels cons : - very very short, the game consists only 20 short levels + 4 bonus = 24 levels, I wish there is still further update - workshop is not active right now, no people making new levels right now :'(
ibraSholeRecommendedafter 2.1hNov 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Road to Ballhalla takes the straightforward idea of rolling a ball through obstacle courses and transforms it into a clever mixture of rhythm, precision movement, puzzles, and arcade-style challenges. Developed by Torched Hill and published by tinyBuild, the game distinguishes itself by making music an important part of how its environments behave. Instead of simply navigating from one end of a stage to another...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 11h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Road to Ballhalla generally features simple patterns to bound through with most of the challenge coming from gimmicks and traps. As someone who doesn't have the patience for memorization and prefers to play by instinct, I was quite satisfied with the game's level design. The trailers for the game seem to focus more on the game's irreverent humour, but the gameplay is solid enough to stand on its own with the comedy...
BreezeRecommendedafter 3.6hOct 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Road to Ballhalla scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/425410/road-to-ballhalla
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+13
Critics75
Players88
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 429 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTorched Hill
PublishertinyBuild
GenreAction
Released2016
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements21