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VideoBall

VideoBall is a sport everyone can play. VideoBall is simple enough for a party. VideoBall is deep enough for the best party ever. VideoBall combines our favorite elements of arcade shooting games, modern…

81 12 July 2016

VideoBall is an indie developed by Action Button Entertainment, released 12 July 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac.

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What VideoBall is

VideoBall is an indie game developed by Action Button Entertainment and released in 2016. It was published by Iron Galaxy Studios. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

VideoBall is a sport everyone can play. VideoBall is simple enough for a party. VideoBall is deep enough for the best party ever. VideoBall combines our favorite elements of arcade shooting games, modern first-person shooters, and modern real-time strategy games with the depth of soccer, basketball, hockey, football, and rugby. In VideoBall you maneuver a player using directional buttons or either of your controller's analog sticks. Press any button or pull any trigger to project a triangle. Only triangles can push balls. Triangles also stun players on impact. Hold any button to charge bigger triangles. Bigger triangles push harder. Push balls into the opposing goal to score points. Hold a…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 19 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

VideoBall holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD 4000. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

VideoBall launched on 12 July 2016, within three weeks of Inside, Abzu, Starbound and Batman: The Telltale Series. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Inside, Abzu, Starbound, Batman: The Telltale Series.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for VideoBall yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

VideoBall — frequently asked questions

When did VideoBall come out?
VideoBall was released on 12 July 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for VideoBall?
At minimum, VideoBall needs Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, Intel HD 4000 graphics, 200 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is VideoBall?
The PC version needs about 0.2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("200 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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