The Pinball Wizard
Oh, young Apprentice! Atop the Mountain of Shadow, at the foot of the castle tower, the wisdom bestowed upon you shall come to pass. A pinball dungeon crawler awaits to test your skill! Ascend the castle…
The Pinball Wizard is an adventure developed by Frosty Pop Games Inc., released 19 September 2019 on Nintendo Switch, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Pinball Wizard is
The Pinball Wizard is an adventure game developed by Frosty Pop Games Inc. and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Oh, young Apprentice! Atop the Mountain of Shadow, at the foot of the castle tower, the wisdom bestowed upon you shall come to pass. A pinball dungeon crawler awaits to test your skill! Ascend the castle tower. Level up your skills. Fulfill your destiny. Become the wizard you were born to be! The Pinball Wizard is an arcade adventure game where the main character is propelled into action by a set of flippers, like the ball in a pinball machine. Each level of the game is a contained area inside a tower. The goal of the game is to survive and get to the top of the tower.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Pinball Wizard holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Pinball Wizard launched on 19 September 2019, within three weeks of Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) and Gears 5. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019), Gears 5.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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