Quantic Pinball, one of the most addictive pinball game ever seen! Enjoy the feeling of pinball through hours of gameplay.
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Un juego que si lo abres te puede entretener, pero ojo, facil dejarlo por cualquier otro juego parecido. No lo recomendaria, pero si lo quieres jugar, saltate esta reseña
Quantic Pinball, developed by Shine Research and published by Plug In Digital, is an arcade-style digital pinball experience that aims to capture the spirit of classic machines while adding a handful of creative twists to differentiate itself from more traditional simulators. Released as an accessible indie title, it focuses on delivering straightforward, score-driven gameplay rather than an elaborate simulation of real-world pinball physics. The result is a game that sits comfortably between nostalgia and experimentation, offering players a compact but varied collection of tables designed to test reflexes and timing.
At its core, Quantic Pinball stays true to the fundamentals of the genre. Players launch the ball onto the table, control a pair of flippers, and attempt to keep the ball in play while racking up as many points as possible. The controls are simple and intuitive, making the game easy to pick up even for those who may not have extensive experience with digital pinball. The pacing can shift quickly from calm precision shots to chaotic multiball moments, capturing the unpredictability that makes pinball so compelling. The physics are generally responsive, though they lean more toward arcade accessibility than hyper-realistic simulation. This design choice makes the game feel approachable but may leave hardcore pinball enthusiasts wishing for more nuanced ball behavior.
One of the game’s defining features is its collection of original tables. Each table introduces slight variations in layout and mechanics, attempting to inject personality into the play experience. Some include magnetic fields that influence ball movement, others incorporate teleportation mechanics, and certain modes trigger multiball sequences that dramatically increase the pace and intensity. These additions create bursts of excitement and prevent the gameplay loop from feeling entirely repetitive. While the tables are not overwhelmingly complex, they provide enough variation to keep players experimenting with different strategies and shot patterns.
Visually, Quantic Pinball favors clarity and function over extravagance. The tables are cleanly designed, with bright indicators and distinct lanes that make it easy to track the ball’s movement. The overall aesthetic does not aim for photorealism or elaborate thematic storytelling; instead, it focuses on ensuring that gameplay remains readable and fast-paced. Sound effects and music complement the arcade tone, delivering satisfying flipper clicks and bumper hits without overshadowing the action. The presentation is modest but effective, reinforcing the idea that this is a game about quick sessions and score chasing rather than immersive worldbuilding.
In terms of content, Quantic Pinball offers a reasonable amount of replay value through its score-based progression and achievement system. Players are encouraged to refine their techniques, chase higher scores, and unlock bonuses tied to successful play. However, beyond the core tables and their variations, there is limited long-term progression or customization. There are no deep narrative elements, career modes, or extensive unlock systems. This simplicity can be seen as both a strength and a weakness. On one hand, it keeps the experience streamlined and focused. On the other, it may limit its appeal to players who prefer more layered gameplay structures.
Overall, Quantic Pinball succeeds as a lightweight, accessible entry into the digital pinball genre. It offers a solid foundation of mechanics, a handful of creative twists, and a presentation that supports quick, engaging play sessions. While it does not reach the depth or polish of larger pinball franchises, it provides enough variety and responsiveness to satisfy casual players and fans of arcade-style challenges. For those seeking a straightforward pinball experience with a few experimental touches, it stands as a competent and enjoyable diversion.
Rating: 5/10
Quantic Pinball — это современная аркадная интерпретация классического пинбола, которая делает ставку на динамику и необычные игровые элементы.
Дайте мне уже награду сообщества, я уже устал эти обзоры клепать.
6/10
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量子弹珠台
有史以来最令人上瘾的弹珠游戏！
海量特色内容，包括：
不间断的街机式畅快体验
极度逼真的物理引擎
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每种迷你模式都拥有独特玩法：
弹幕射击
多重弹珠
空间传送
磁场干扰
漆黑领域
坡道捉迷藏
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le temps de réponse des flippers, ce qui rends le jeu un peu compliqué, trop long ... dommage, vraiment, car jolie mais non jouable
Love the music. Hardcore
Only playable in window mode, no mouse support, bugged achievements.
Si bien el juego es barato, la calidad es muy baja incluso para el precio.
Primera vez que lo abro, ok sin problemas, intentos subsecuentes salta un error de que faltan archivos de directx9 , reinstalar el juego no sirve, solución, abrirlo en modo ventana.
-modo ventana no puedes modificar su tamaña, es fijo
-en modo pantalla completa no hay opciones de resolución
-no hay explicacion en el juego de que se necesita para pasar el nivel (igual soy manco, pero al menos saber que tan lejos esta uno de lograrlo)
-en el foro de steam mencionan que varios logros estan rotos, alguien mas menciono que hay que pasarse todos los niveles para que logren salir los logros rotos, de nuevo, no hay informacion dentro del juego ni del desarrollador
-los menus son lentisimos
-no puedes silenciar por separado musica y efectos, no hay control de volumen
+ se puede jugar con control sin problemas
+la musica no está mal
la juagabilidad es suficientemente fluida, pero llega un momento en que estas como los peces del final de buscando a Nemo, "bueno y ahora que?"
las cartas son algo caras, igual no vale la pena solo por eso.
Lo compre en un bundle asi que no meto devolucion, si lo ves en oferta le daria la oportunidad, pero solo si no tienes algo mas interesante que comprar
Much the same as Babylon and Zombie Pinball, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but with the added frustration of inconsistent achievement unlocks. I have accomplished all of the requirements that I've still yet to unlock -- Epsilon, Zeta, Easier, and Kill Them All, but they are VERY conditional or inefficiently programmed.
I also played Babylon 2055 Pinball, both of these games are nearly indetical so I'm going to review just this one. For context, the last pinball game I ever played was that thing on windows xp.
I have no clue how these games are supposed to work, I somehow managed to beat this one though. I unlocked all the levels, I consider it to be the finish line and I refuse to elaborate further. There are achievements you can try to get but I quite frankly don't have the balls or patience to do it.
For less than a euro, it ain't bad. You'll have fun playing for about an hour or two depending on your playstyle.
Note: This review will seem very similar to my review for Babylon 2055 pinball. This is because the "developer" of both games just [b]copy and pasted the entire game.[/b] Asset flipping begins at home, I guess.
Quantic Pinball is an extraordinarily mediocre pinball simulator game... I won't go into explaining what pinball is, but it's important to know there's quite a few pinball games on Steam, and while I don't agree with their predatory pricing models, a few of them give you completely free tables to play on and are backed by a really solid pinball simulator engine.
This one is the opposite.
You can unlock a handful of tables, but there's no point... this is worse than the 3D spaceman pinball you get with Windows XP. It's only in 2D, there's no table bumping feature (I guess you don't have to worry about Tilt???)... it's just a simplistic mess that I am surprised isn't a Flash game. And a slew of technical shortcomings.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The game features simple, fairly basic 2D visuals, and while some effort went into them, and they don't look bad exactly, they don't look great, either. In the 3D era of gaming, that kicked off in the mid 1990's with dedicated 3D GPUs like the S3 Virge and ATI Rage, phoning in the graphics like this isn't going to win any awards or appeal to enthusiast PC gamers.
It's apparent that little to no testing for the game was done, at least on modern gaming PCs. In fullscreen, the game doesn't display properly, with the game area drawn only up in the top left corner of the screen. This is caused by the developer not bothering to ensure the game works on resolutions over 1080p, with very high resolution monitors that use DPI scaling for the OS UI. Because the game area is not drawn correctly, it doesn't map to the mouse pointer properly, so the game itself simply cannot be played. Gamers shouldn't be forced to accept defective products just because developers don't bother with basic testing on PC.
Bewilderingly, the game doesn't include proper audio controls, so you can't turn off the annoying sound/background music, you'll need to alt+tab out and stop it using the Windows sound mixer. This is obviously not okay and it's unclear why the developers chose not to include this basic feature.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2024 (and this was released not so far back in 2017), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort shovelware.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Quantic Pinball has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is "Alpha", for scoring well on the first table, trivial to achieve, but less than 6 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch.
Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, and isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show less than 6 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who didn't bother engaging with this game? Trading cards. People will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game.
That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with little merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam?
Quantic Pinball is relatively cheap at $4 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
Overall a very fun game, but has one critical flaw...
My primary concern is a complete lack of an options menu. I would like to be able to adjust sound levels, brightness, and a primary control scheme. Having to use *exclusively* the left and right arrow keys means I get wrist cramps because my wrists are so close together. I know some other pinball games that utilize the z and ? keys, or left and right Ctrl keys, but this is the first time I've had to use only the arrow keys, and I can't say that I'm a big fan of it.
One small issue I have is that there's not a lot of variety to make the game feel dynamic. There's very little change in color, and no change in color scheme between stages, I do like the cyber feel that the game has, but I do wish that there was more reactivity from the different stages beyond the different "missions"; speaking of, I do feel that it's a bit odd to have the game not require any of them to be completed to advance to the next stages, just to have the different lanes be used a certain number of times. I think the missions are fun and interesting, and wish that they played a more prominent role in advancing to future stages. Additionally, I feel that it's a bit of a missed opportunity to have the missions in each stage be basically identical, instead of having different themes based on the unique features of the different stages. I think having missions be unique to each stage would allow each one to feel like they each had their own identity, instead of just feeling all samey.
All that being said, I do like the game, and will absolutely come back to play more of it if the control scheme issues are fixed!
[b]Quantic Pinball[/b] definitely doesn't live up to the main selling points on the store page:
"One of the most addictive pinball game ever seen" [i][sic][/i]
It's one of the worst pinball games I've played. When launching you're presented with fullscreen mode or window. Fullscreen uses a strange resolution on both of my computers. There are no resolution options! Window opens the game in a tiny window that cannot be resized.
Several players in the forum talk about not even being able to launch the game due to DX9 errors or dpi-scaling issues.
Gameplay feels like a cheap mobile phone title, it didn't feel anything like "non-stop arcade action" and ball movement didn't match the touted "incredibly realistic physics".
I'm refunding this title.
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Update July 14th/15th:
Sorry, let me elaborate.
The game initially would not load at all. I had to do a bit of digging and research to find and properly install the needed DirectX 9.0c package(s), on Windows 10.
Before I could be bothered to test whether that fix actually worked, I went ahead and tried the game on Steam Deck LCD instead. Worked like a charm, and I even earned a few achievements, except I noticed the balls would oftentimes appear to jitter mid-movement. The physics seem slightly off. The space invaders board-mode is sometimes hard to parse--the buggers blended into the background/table too much in some spots. And on top of all that, everything other than the pinball table paddles is very laggy and unresponsive--menu navigation and selection, pausing, unpausing, etc. Kind of annoying.
A day or two later, I finally try it out on Windows 10 again. It works... Except this time I finish the Gamma table, without being awarded the corresponding Steam Achievement.
I am currently very tempted to refund, even if it was only a dollar or two. There are so many superior pinball games on Steam and in my library already that even if it was worth that minuscule amount of money, it wouldn't be worth any amount of time. EDIT: Looks like I got it on Fanatical, so no refund for me afterall. Oh well. Hopefully I find a way to un-bug the achievement(s) at least.
In particular, I highly recommend you play Pinball Deluxe Reloaded and Yoku's Island Express instead.
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I'm a sucker for teal and fuchsia neon. My whole living room looks like this video pinball game. The sound effects/music are sensory stimulation for my brain. Tables to unlock, difficulty is on the casual side. Full controller support. Controls work flawlessly. Check out my group. https://steamcommunity.com/groups/indieretrogamers
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Nice retro pinball vibe.
Quantic Pinball is a fantastic pinball game that is sure to provide hours of fun and entertainment. The game features 8 different table game mini-modes and 6 original tables, each with its own unique gameplay and special features. The physics in the game are incredibly realistic and add to the overall experience. The different table game mini-modes include shoot them up, multiball, balls teleportation, magnetic fields, black out, and ramps hide and seek, providing a nice variety of gameplay options. The retro-arcade special table is a great bonus for retro-arcade enthusiasts.
Overall, Quantic Pinball is the perfect fusion between a pinball game and classic arcade gameplay, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a fun and addictive pinball game. Whether you are a fan of pinball or just looking for a new game to play, Quantic Pinball is definitely worth checking out.
Please update. This game could be fun if the flippers actually made the balls travel up. Current physics make the balls too heavy and the flipper power weak. It's unplayable. I had to refund but will buy again if the dev makes improvements.
Achievements are doable, but 2 could be hard to achieve.
You have leaderboards, but only local, no worldwide stats unfortunately.
I give this game a 6.3 out of 10.
A single game with a single music track, but having six different tables to unlocking a gate and launching a ball through or by playing a table at least 10 times. After you escape through the gate of all tables a bonus time-based standalone game where you have to take down invaders by hitting them with balls similar to Space Invaders. If the timer runs out, then the game is over. The graphics are simplistic, but it's got a lot of charm and some cool bonuses like an 8+ multi-ball. A lot here to enjoy for the inexpensive price. Recommended.
cool game
Not bad for an original Pinball game. The mini-games for the tables is quite interesting. All tables is based on the same theme and only has 1 soundtrack. If you have a 4K display, it will not cover full screen. No Tate mode. Theres no settings available except turning music off. Missing a lot of standard configurations and features that you would expect from any game.
I got this for $1 but I wouldnt pay the full asking price unless Dev adds standard quality of life features. This game was released in 2017 and games from the 90s got more features than this.
For what its worth, I did enjoy the game itself and what is has to offer and creative gameplay mechanics.
If you like Pinball get it on sale.
Un bon petit jeu de pinball pas cher et pas trop prise de tête, c'est du très simple : on vous propose une première table, vous tapez comme un sourd dans la bille, vous déclenchez les différents events qui vous font gagner du score et ainsi de suite.
La musique est sympa, bien que répétitive.
L'ambiance psychédélique colle bien au jeu.
Par contre, pour le réalisme, moyen : la bille possède une inertie a la fois lourde et légère.
Certains moments, elle fuse, d'autres, elle va pas vraiment rebondir.
Le plus chiant reste l'espèce de mini-latence sur les bumpers : lorsque vous appuyez sur la touche d'un bumper, il ne va s'activer que 0.5 seconde après.
Ca n'a l'air de rien mais une fois entre les papattes, on sent très nettement ce problème.
Mais une fois le jeu maîtriser, ce n'est plus vraiment un problème.
Le jeu reste un bon défouloir/passe-temps.
Un peu court, cependant.
Des skins de table n'auraient pas été de trop et très appréciable.
This game would be 100x better if I could play it full screen on a vertical monitor. As it is, I can only play it in a tiny window on my 4k monitor or go to full screen mode, which only takes up 75% of the screen for some reason. Also, there is no way to type in a name for high scores.
I still don't know what it is I'm supposed to do to finish the first table. Playing through the same table 10 times in order to unlock the next table isn't very appealing to me, so I never made it far. I personally didn't find it to be that great of a pinball game.
This is a fun pinball game to be sure. It has a variety of tables to unlock thought you do start with 2. The goal of each table is just to go through the paths until the gates open up. Then, you just have to go into the gate to unlock and play the next level. The design of each table makes playing them very interesting to say the least. However, there are a lack of them in total and the color of the tables remains the same throughout them all. There are modes within these tables to spice up the game play a bit, but that's what makes it fun. Overall, though I did like it, I will have to give it an average score of 6/10.
Pinball game that feels like the one that came with Windows way back. There are couple of nice gimmicks that I haven't seen before in pinball games. However, every table has similar color scheme, so they feel repeatative. When first playing, all but table is locked. To unlock new tables requires either ten tries on previous table or completing a table. Completing the table can be troublesome, because the goal is not always clearly intigated. Music tracks are also nice, but too repeatative.
Simpel, aber gut.
Cute colorful 2D pinball game with plenty of multi-balls and effects such as magnetism and warp. Tables are visually homogeneous and the one electro music track is OK. Table objectives are all the same in that you need to light lights on the board to open a gate and then escape off the table. Steam integration cloud, achievements, trading cards and steam leaderboards round out a good effort.
配不上这个价格。如果是5元以下的小游戏，还是非常好玩的。虽然我是免费获得
https://youtu.be/btnJtM108rE
The limited board design may deliver a more classic feel, but quickly wears out any thrills or excitement for the player.
不推荐，十分屎的一款游戏
