Ball laB

Ball laB

Skip · Narrative · 2018

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 18, under the fair line, at $0.99.

Length
5.3h 6.9h to 100%
Value
$0.19/hr
Reviews
64% of 875 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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
Value$0.19/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement44% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews64% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 65% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 80 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

Ball laB is a hardcore platformer with minimalist graphics.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 50 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 51 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. On the same math Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio ($0.99, scores 79) and One Gun Guy ($0.79, scores 23) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Ball laB

Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The drop-off

57% start to 44% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Ball laB scores 18/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/780800/ball-lab
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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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperViktor Yurchuk
PublisherViktor Yurchuk
GenreNarrative
Released2018
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20