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Thank you very much. Okay, so we're talking about game called Ball Xit. We talked about it a little bit when we were kind of discussing things with with David from Hobby. I'm not sure if it actually was in the episode or it was the
It's currently all over the place. You just won't be able to miss it because it's one of those like indie blinks currently trending.
Trending. Yes. Can you play?
Yeah. Yeah, I can play.
You maybe we should start with the cinematic because
Oh, yeah. Please. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That that's pretty interesting to at least understand the story.
Yeah. Honestly, so as you might have noticed, this is not like a mobile game yet. So marketing is very different and it's published by Deolver Digital as I kind of found out. Okay. Too bad it's not with the sound actually, but it's fine. We can we can talk about it.
Yeah. So, there's a there's a like a B belong.
You are awesome. Awesome narrator. Thank you very much. You should you should narrate all the ads or all everything. Bit is always
I would pay good money for you to narrate the Olympics. So, there's some guy running bunch of people running behind them. I guess they're doing something interesting here. I don't know.
I guess. Yeah. I mean, it's basically the same as as Yakov's episode about news. So, this is happening. Yeah. Okay. You you now Unity and whatever like Team Sweetie, they're best friends ever not
supposed to be. Is what?
Yeah. Maybe I should continue.
You should.
Your spirit animal is Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
Sloth. Absolute sloth. Jesus. It's amazing. Okay. Anyway,
great narrative. Thank you very much. The cinematic was so so important and interesting at the same time.
Yakob, can you read the news? I probably won't like it.
Oh my god. Okay, great. Okay,
that's great.
Okay.
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before we end up like me with the two kids routine. So what we have here is
[ __ ] just stop it.
One of the one of top rogue light games pretty much on Steam now. Maybe we start with the numbers first because the game will be anyway all of it. So
my [ __ ] thing and then just go for it.
Go go go for it. 367K units sold already. First five days they said that they sold 300k which is kind of comparable to Batro because Balatro did 400k as as I was checking 4.4 million gross revenue as you see the estimate here 95 positive reviews.
Thank you VG insights for the numbers by the way.
Exactly.
It's overwhelmingly positive. currently
sitting on as I said 95% views with like 7 and a halfk reviews and it's made by
making you a merch which is going to say overwhelming with positive you will [ __ ] wear it all the time
anyway Kenny son and friends so this time instead of meong we don't have a mystery developer we actually have a developer that's been there and then uh done few games before if I understand correctly regarding the game itself there's also one very interesting game that I need to show you before we continue. So, there's this game called
Brick Breaker.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh [ __ ]
From Blackberry
or who is that? But basically, there's this game called the original one. Very old one.
Where is it?
Yeah. Like if if if we like um Yeah.
What's happening?
This is the classic one basically. But this is this this was
this is the one that was this was all on the Blackberry phones, right? This is a
standard game. Yeah. This is like their snake.
I don't know if they had it, but this is like before Windows. I remember playing this.
This is the game.
Yeah.
This is the [ __ ] game.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly. So, just saying this is an iteration on that and then
can you slap like Rogite basically on anything nowadays?
It seems you can like you
which is interesting because yeah like if if like it's a good combination. Rog light has this one very important property that most genres don't have and that they have giant replay-ability of the grind. If done properly, it's very enjoyable and interesting to do because most of the games once you kind of see all of their content, you again hit this point of like I've seen it all and it stops being interesting. With Rog light, you can it takes so much more time to even see all of the content. And I I mean see like play with it because in order to build all the builds and like get all those combinations, it's just like colossal extension of time until
you get there compared to something which is just either single player content or just like very easy. And these guys push it to the limit. I'll show you in a second. So let's play a little bit. We have some character selection very similar to um Balatro. Same a little bit of like starting ability and then some like main ability. Same with like in Balato you have decks and decks have like different abilities. Same as with Mega Bong by the way if you remember like all those games are basically rogue lights like good roses are trending very well on Steam and people are making millions with them. So we have our starting warrior. We are the finger.
This is this the archery finger. That's the arch fingers. Yeah, it's is by the way very very good character. And then I just uh unlock the repentant but yeah I won't use it. Let's just use the sheriff one
please.
And then we have the progression which is like you have these other levels that you need to like as you go down the pit that the balded alo I'm just on the first one called boneyard and I have the warrior itchy finger and repentant and I
have still eight undiscovered blueprints. I'll talk about that in a second. So let's actually go to the pit. Yeah. And then we have our character. So you move by VD. So actually using keyboard to move. And then you're using mouse to aim. And then what's really important, if you see me catching the fireball, you need to boomerang the special balls because there are two balls in this type of game, which is the baby balls, the the the white ones, which you cannot catch. They're just like or you can or or can you? You just shoot them. And then you have the actual weapons and the balls which is this kind of fireball that my character starts with. And then of course the best way to play the game is that we have the rogide setup. So we now need to select a new ability. So we level up this one. We get a new one which is a passive. Passes go down here. Balls goes to the top. Same as survivor IO where you have the combination of those two where passives are the fuel abilities are the actual things that's
happening. There's giant encyclopedia by the way if you want to just search through stuff and see all those different balls and their combinations and like different abilities beast area. Yeah, this gets very very deep but immediately for instance here you see that there's synergies because I can combine burning ball and freeze ball into this kind of a freeze flame if I understand correctly. So let let me just choose that one. Now we're freezing and burning in the same time. Again, as I said, best way to play the game is to shoot uh
horizontally. Yeah, shoot them up. Shoot horizontally because those those uh kind of shots just gives you more bounces, which means more damage. Left side of the screen, that's my HP. This is my XP, my abilities, how many coins I get. And then the wave counter as I progress. I can also increase the the see the speed. O
yeah, the speed one, two, three, which is usually paid feature in games. Magic stuff. Yeah, fleet food. We want this thing. So this is the slowest one. This is the fastest one. Enemies actually attack you as you see some arrows flying
towards me. But yeah, they stand no chance. Yeah, that was the chest. So they have this like normally you would in Survivor you would find a chest and gives you one more extra ability or something based on your build. These are important because in rogike games you cannot complete your build just by selection. You need to get more of the same ability to level them up. Da da da da. It's just you need that. So fision one of the main things that these things is just a random roll between one to five abilities that you already have. What was the word you said?
Fision.
Fusion, you mean?
No, it's fusion. This This was fusion. Fusion will be different. There will be fusion and there will also evolution.
So, we continue. And the enemies cannot reach the bottom. By the way, when they reach the bottom, they start attacking you. That's why you always start from the bottom.
And now we are here.
Yeah, there we go. Um, so you slowly eat through them, destroy them. Best case scenario, you can create an opening when the balls are kind of going behind them like here. You see?
Oh yeah, that looks super satisfying when it happens.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. They are literally balls that can only pass forward, but it
cannot pass backward, which means that they backstab them. So, more fision and more extra abilities that we get. That was great.
Look at that rewarded out of placement. I can't wait to see this mobile. I see like five, six imp here. This is great.
Nom. No, no, no. Yeah, the blue crystals that I'm collecting does the XP again. typical rog light mechanic enemies drop these and I need to level them up. Nothing really to it. The other very interesting mechanic I'm hope I will show you in a second is that once you have a lot of abilities you see they have very few slots because if I'm level up now so you see I have only four slots. Survivor arrow has already five. Megaong I think also have more. But the really important part that later down the line we'll be able to clear slots and this is the big innovation of this game. So let's get this one. This is one of the best passive by the way. Balls go through enemies and deal 25% bonus damage until they hit the back of the field. You see what is kind of starts happening. You see what's happening on the top as they pass through. Yeah. Now we have the interesting part. So not
only you have different functions of this thing, you can actually choose yourself which gives you a lot of custom strategy setup. So now I can either evolve or again do another fision. So let's do evolution and we can evolve the frozen flame one. So what we'll do it pretty much is the same as with survivor IO vampire survivors. It combine two abilities into one. But you see we're actually combining two balls, not the ball and the passive like it's in Survivor IO. So what this does is actually freeze out our slots because suddenly instead of three now we'll have just two because the frost and fireball got combined which is massive because it means that I can take more abilities. So now I have two only.
This is really smart, huh? Yeah. Yeah. That's really
This is like really interesting to see.
And it's not all because the thing is
not stopping here.
Yeah, we're not stopping here. It It goes deeper. The thing is that you can also evolve these evolved balls. So you can actually combine four into one if you know what they're combining. Like some recipes need literally two
evolutions. Like let's say there's a succubus and incubus one which evolves into Satan. So, you're telling me we could have an ad placement on an ad placement then with another ad placement?
You see here, reroll for five?
Yeah, reroll for an ad.
Yeah, there we go. Crown of Thrones. Yeah, don't need that. Let's get this. Yeah. Uh,
how much does the game cost?
This one?
Yeah.
$14.99.
14.99.
So, yeah, there's the boss that we need to destroy. And yeah, currently we are a little bit of a underperforming because best case scenario there are enemies blocking the line. So the balls can get, you know, bouncy from their backs as you see now because they're passing by them. The frost plane ball isn't really the best one. Just wanted to show an evolution. But uh yeah, was there already fetter? No, not this one. The positioning is extremely important from where you shoot, how you shoot, how you stack the balls. Also me catching the ball and not really doing anything is also really important like to just also
catch the ball constantly to give this boomerang effect more time damaging the enemies and not just flying around aimlessly because the normal balls. See this is the vampire one. We're going to get that one. It's just much better up time on the damage. So the more time you are able to boomerang these balls. See how how the vampire and and this guy is now trying to kill me. There we go. Fusion.
You die.
You die. you you die. No worries. Okay.
Yeah, there we have the blueprint. Good that we got one. I'll show you how to use it later. So, a clinic. There's very very strong outside of the core meta game. We'll get to it. So, we continue here.
Huh?
I prefer Clinique.
I also have a blueprint, but that's more about soft launching rather than just playing it.
No ads, no UA. It means I'm going to get criticized on my grammar and vocabulary. I know.
No, no, no, no, no. Clean.
No. Just me being funny.
See?
Exactly. So we already have frozen flame and ghost and this is now fusion instead of evolution. So I'm fusing these two
together which means the extra or let's say the the frozen flame times ghost ball now has effect of both balls basically. But again what it did it did clear out the slot so I can take on more more balls.
That's what she said. I mean, the game looks super satisfying to play.
Yes, it is. The music is, by the way, outstanding.
And music is like some kind of RPG techno style music.
It's my black t-shirt today.
Oh, yeah. There you go. Okay. I didn't get the memo. Sorry, guys.
Yeah. Yeah. You're too happy.
No, but I was
I know I said like, look, I this is I really I really want this on mobile in some form because I mean there is kind of stuff, but still it's just
who are not following really all of the episodes. Hobby actually had a similar game on their portfolio which is called Pumble. Didn't do very well.
It's not the same.
It's not the same at all. It's not the same at all. There's not these advanced fusion fusion evolution mechanics. There's not like this kind of moving
screen. It's very static compared to this actually.
Exactly.
This is more chaotic which
but you see what's happening as I have the past.
Yeah. It's
like it's much more strategic and much more deeper. So, see another fusion available. Okay, let's do this.
Yeah, also this looks way better than pun ballman.
Yeah, they say they have 60 balls currently in the game. Different one. I understand correctly. Uh, okay. Why not? Let's do lightning. These guys needs to die otherwise it's going to be pretty painful.
Yeah. And I think this boss that's going to come next, I wasn't able to kill it yet cuz I just just [ __ ] single target damage. And see this is the problem that you sometimes needs to build sometimes you need to build against specific enemies otherwise your build just won't be able to do it. So I'm guess we're going to die here. But that's good because we want to show you the meta anyway.
Yeah, it's good. And now you understand like why is this not in this form possible on mobile? Because it's so much stuff you need to do.
So much stuff you need to control, so much stuff you need to check. Uh you know just just my controls here like just evading all these arrows and and like just aiming. Sure, but can can't you just do it like with with a thumb? Which might make sense with control? Like what did you just like mentioned on the previous the boat game like the twin sticks or whatever was it?
Twin sticks. Yeah,
it will be still like it's it's already very hard because really like there's a giant difference between someone skilled and someone not skilled because not only you need to remember you don't need to only evade these arrows and like traps or whatever, you also need to catch the balls increase your DPS and be efficient
of course.
So and and that's extremely hard
which is I mean fine it's just going to be hard. Welcome to gaming industry.
There we go. Because I didn't kill him. He did
11 minutes. Okay, nice. Yeah, he died.
Thank you very much listeners. This is it. Thank see you. See you next time.
The character leveled up and we found a new blueprint. So, what does this mean and how's the out of the core let's say
part of the game works? Because this is now very interesting. I haven't seen this.
Yeah, I was I was watching the videos like wait a second you you can build and then yeah then get the resources basically based on what what you build in here. But I will actually
So we have you can build a base and gather resources.
Yes.
What in a game? So there's the soft currency.
Check check check how it how it actually works.
Yeah. Yeah. There's the soft currency and there are some building resources such as
whatever is it. This is we have wood and rock. So we built economy buildings which I have three already but I'm guessing there are a lot more.
Yeah. Way more.
Yeah. Yeah. So way more. Then there's warfare which I think I don't even have anything of now. just see how many are there where all characters get plus one bonus hard endurance affects your max health HP so like just more health and there's housing housing is basically new characters so I already have the whatever this is what's this gunsmith
but this is not a new character is it no it's not this is not a new character Sher's office is a house for Ichy finger also some effect but you first need to build this in order to even unlock sheriff then you have haunted house that's the one for the repentant. Again, you need to build this just to house the repentant. Important part, if you want to build something, you need to have resources for it and you need to build it somewhere on your board or whatever. And then you need to actually build it by bouncing your characters on it. This is the interesting part because not only not only the resources that you have here, the whatever, they need to be harvested. And you harvest that you have this one shot of all your characters on your base. And whatever they bounce, it creates the effect. So if they go over like a forest, you get the wood. If they go over like a field, they wet. If they bounce here, it's like they will add one more stack of building something. If they bounce here, nothing happens. So what what you literally need to do now is you need to build your base in order to get the most out of it. So let's say
if I put this here and then shoot my guys, you know, kind of bump around here, it will get more bumps. If I zoom out, you see how the big the base can get. Please go to YouTube. Let's see a big base. Come on.
We We'll get there. We'll get there.
We'll get there. We'll get there.
We'll get there. It just takes a lot of time. And you do this only once per run. So once per run, you can harvest and if you harvest, you need to play again. So yeah, this is very clever because not only you need to kind of, you know, again, position rightly, make strategic decisions with your resources, but also make sure that you shoot it out right because otherwise you can't even build it. So let's just try our shot with the clinic. So see like this. You also go, "Yeah, [ __ ] the resources. I'm just not going to get anything."
Yeah, I just want to see it.
Yeah. See, so they build it and there's a harvest clock. You only have a limited time during which these guys can run on the field. I think the top one is 19 seconds that you can unlock. So they got some harvest and they completed the hospital or what what this is. And then
I can just manually upgrade it with the resources that's there. Yeah.
Love the creativity in these like when we do these kind of like reviews. This is so cool. like something new every single minute like oh this is this game this is this copy this is taken from this
this is this is very creative as I said you can expand to have more land you can rearrange these things again build these things and then you need to play so yeah this is amazing really and even if I understand the pit can be somehow upgraded because I guess you get these and then you can go to like deeper or stuff because you have these what's that They also have this like live event part which means that sometimes you have these like on next run this character gets plus 25% gold just like incentivization a little bit. So that's also there and uh what's that? Yeah. Show upgradeable.
I guess Steam is where all the creativity is, right?
Of course.
It's just where everything gets copied
because that's that's the point. Like if you just get 20 copies on a different
game on a different UA and do [ __ ] on Steam, how many copies are there of Vampire Survivors and like few games made it and that's it? Survivor io clones on mobile like there's there whole category that we can go and just skim like how many millions each of those did. So that doesn't work here and here creativity is the king because people are searching for new experiences and they're not playing these games for years like they play 20 30 hours and they're okay with it. you know, they played it to the end. This game actually has a new game plus mode, which is like if you don't have enough content, just reset the game, start from scratch with higher like demands and stats.
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you see that my character will be now a little bit stronger because we build that clinic and again
not that much. Yeah, not that much basically. But again, it will be a completely new run and depends on what it will drop. Then the whole thing pretty much goes from there. That's it pretty much.
Yeah. I mean, that's that's pretty good, man. I mean,
can you go can you go to YouTube? I need to see one of these like really good pinball on the villages. I want to see what that looks like.
Yeah. Yeah, we can we can check some like top builds or like out of out of the where where's where's the how do I abandon? Yes. Okay, let's stay in the base. Um,
so many videos on Facebook on YouTube or or Tik Tokers just playing the game like different combinations, you know, like the the fusions, builds, whatever else, like the beginners guides, like this is deep as [ __ ]
Yeah, this is very deep. It's like same as Mega Bong. I would say it's not that popular, but the
What do you mean not that popular? It's jumping out of everywhere.
Yeah. Yeah. But Megaong was I guess if we would compare Twitch viewership
numbers, which we can, by the way.
Okay, then. Yeah, fair. Meong might be bigger. They said I couldn't make ads without the dev team. They said I couldn't understand the tech. Guess what? I just made a fully working gorgeous top to play while eating noodles and watching trash TV and taking care of my daughter. All thanks to playable makeup. No code, no stress, no cheat her statistics here. Don't remember which was the site. Twitch tracker here. So, Megabon, what are you doing? I'm just comparing the stats of these two games. Like Mega Bong and this one.
I don't see I don't see.
Yeah, they Okay, awesome.
So, this is Mega Bong with like big viewership 130k 1,200. Yeah, it doesn't switch. And if we go into one * Yeah, it's just smaller.
Half less than one third half of it.
Okay.
But you see you see the the curve. It's very very similar. So average team numbers I think I have them here somewhere here here. They Yes. So there it's like stacked and then just move on. But still like that's okayish for this kind type of a game against very small team. Don't expect like actually it's like a giant uh return on investment.
That's a huge success, man. Like what are you talking about? It's a huge success.
Yeah, it is a huge success.
And then um yeah,
also like just don't forget like this is published by Deolver Digital. So it's not only like this
guy is just doing that Mega Man which was literally just
just the guy
just the guy who by the way removed himself from the debut of the year competition award if I remember because this was not his first game. So yes that happened. Okay.
Oh yeah. Yeah. [ __ ] Yeah.
Most overpowered.
Yeah. I saw this.
Yeah. Yeah. So you see how this can literally look and you see how many even choices the guy has here.
Yeah. Yeah. So he's just constantly doing stuff and like
Yeah.
My god. Yeah. This is this twin character that I keep seeing people playing. But like you see how many even the balls there are there on the on the screen. Yeah. This is this character.
Nice.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess later down the line you saw there in the in the selection he actually has he actually has five. Yeah. He has five against five. Yeah. It gets everything like gets scaled basically. So more complex, but this is like just like the usual Rog light mixer of like you just blender everything basically, especially this. But yeah, in the meantime, let me just double check the top base builds.
Yeah, optimal base set. Yeah,
this is going to be really satisfying. How am I feeling now?
Of course.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
people really enjoy me maxing these
things.
Yeah. [ __ ] hell. Yes. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. this giant.
Yeah, it's it's huge.
And also you have these like giant structures that you found later down the line. It's not just like these small ones. It's just like and and you see how big it is. So, and you need to manage all of that because as I said, some things they are worth shooting into and people need to farm them. Some things are not. Some things you just need to find place for to kind of keep them out. Yeah. As I said, optimal strategy. So, you see with the guys, we'll go like this or I don't know. So maybe let me actually yeah assigning workers and stuff like that. So you see it gets much much much more complex. I don't know if the guy is even able to shoot. Oh yeah, there we go. So harvest clock 35 seconds. You see he starts here from from the bottom.
Let's Yeah, let him do this. Oh
and shoots his whole inventory of I don't know like 15 20 characters. And you see like some just go here bounce
off and like
look at the harvest clock by the way. Yeah. See?
Yeah. Yeah. 35 more time as well. You're actually getting more time. Yeah. You're getting more time scales with with bigger bigger city.
No, but like you're he was bouncing between and he was see
Yeah.
He was stuck basically on on the number 30. So it's
Okay. Okay. So he's sending you with some with
Yeah. There's some ability the harvest. Yeah. Of course.
Yeah. See See now now we
Yeah. It went up. It went up. It went up
because there's Yeah. There's this like 000.7.
He farm basically everything and then it just kind of bounces up and does I don't know what like what's just the time flying back to his base.
Yeah. Yeah. The time flying back just because you're
nice. You wish
you wish.
You wish.
Yeah. But this just gives you the, you know, the perspective on like how big the scale of this thing can get and how much you can
like also two games in one. It's two games in one. I mean, if you just look
at like how this this is just market marketed is like basically IGN covers this huge videos on YouTube then there's like again like so many of them on Tik Tok rather small than than what we saw with uh previous games that we discussed but still it's a lot of them. I mean it's not nowhere near like a level level de level but still like this is still pretty pretty big. All these different like guides, tips and tricks and all these things which have like hundreds of thousands of views, right? Yeah, because so you have all
it's a direct correlation of like the more strategic options you have, the more you need to choose. Therefore, the more guides will be generated on your content.
Yeah, exactly.
If it's worth it enough.
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
So,
all this like bo. But this is this is super innovative. I haven't ever seen that thing like the rog light part with just like changing the mechanics of fusion, fusion, and evolution. That's one thing. I've seen few of the games doing similar things, but not in this setup. But this one, this like base brick breaker edition, I've never seen before. Like,
oh, this this is perfect. That's what I
was.
Thank you so much for sharing, man. Like, I love these segments cuz it's just like, yeah, we we deal a lot with mobile games where it's all about copying and like creatives and this is just pure creativity. It's really nice to see.
This is super creative. And my guess is that people are working on this on mobile because this makes total sense on mobile. You just need to you just need to streamline it. Of course, in a way that the controls you need to figure out which I can I guess you can.
No, I can see that happening. Come on.
Yeah, it's just like, you know,
keep the character stationary. You take out the VSD movement and just make the kind of aiming a little bit more.
Take the the main characters and make them freezing families.
Yeah, absolutely.
This is also that. But this base thing, this is pure
Yeah, that's
pureation. Yeah. Very very interesting. Very deep. I think this is the main part why why it kind of kind of carries the game.
Yeah.
Like it works.
Okay.
Awesome.
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Distilling the key insights…
Ball X-Pit has established itself as a significant breakout success in the 2025 PC gaming market, achieving 367,000 unit sales and $4.4 million in gross revenue during its initial week on Steam. With a 95% positive review rating, the title demonstrates the commercial viability of blending classic physics-based gameplay with modern roguelite mechanics. By integrating Arkanoid-style movement with deep, Vampire Survivors-inspired buildcraft, the game provides a high-skill experience that resonates strongly with current player preferences for complex, synergistic combat systems.
The core innovation lies in a sophisticated fission, fusion, and evolution mechanic that allows players to consolidate abilities and optimize inventory management. This strategic depth is complemented by a unique base-building meta-game, where players must physically navigate a village layout to harvest resources. This design choice shifts the focus from the repetitive, long-term retention models typical of the mobile sector toward a more creative, high-engagement loop that rewards short-term tactical decision-making.
Industry analysts view the title as a refreshing departure from the industry’s reliance on derivative assets, noting that its mechanics are exceptionally well-suited for future mobile adaptation. The emergence of a robust community ecosystem, characterized by extensive player-generated guides and content, further validates the game's depth and replayability. Supported by Devolver Digital, the project serves as a prime example of how innovative genre-blending can capture significant market share and foster intense player loyalty in a competitive landscape.
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