PC Critic Reviews

It might not be the future of eSports, but it is the future of several fun, sweary, elbows-in-each-others-ribs nights with your friends.

Every piece of Videoball feels crafted for competition, and even when I was getting whipped by the game's AI opponents, it was a joy to play. With the pinpoint control and endless playability of the best arcade sports experiences, the small team at Action Button Entertainment has invented something wonderful and new in Videoball.

Videoball’s designers managed to achieve both sit-down-and-just-play simplicity and surprising depth. [10/2016, p.52]

An exceptional exercise on design purity, VIDEOBALL is a virtual sport that takes inspiration from the origin of videogames themselves to expand the possibilities laid by classics such as Spacewar!, Pong, Asteroids and more; however, despite its undeniable pedigree and elegance, and its generous content, it somehow lacks some excitement and addictiveness. Remarkable, but still a little short of videogame perfection.

With its distinctively clean retro stylings and deceptively simple set up, Videoball may blindside you with the pace and depth of its gameplay. It's reminiscent of arcade classics, and is easily one of the best multiplayer experiences of the year.

Incredibly simple to pick up and play, but with the potential for plenty of tactical approaches, Videoball is a great multiplayer game and I’d love to see it hit the esports scene in a big way.

Practice is for tryhards, and Videoball’s greatest strength is that it understands the value of isolated, localized competition.

With a full crew, Videoball is a lot of fun. It hits that difficult-to-balance level of controlled chaos where a lot is happening on screen, but those playing and those watching can keep track of the action. It leaves plenty of room for close calls, last-second saves, and the equivalent of the slam dunk, but playing online proved difficult and the slow firing speed kept me feeling like I was coming up short.