Who remembers the Marble Blast games? Brilliant little 3D physics platformers, a bit like Super Monkey Ball however with a leap button, some intelligent power-ups and infrequently non-linear ranges. Marble It Up is a non secular sequel from most of the unique builders, now working underneath their very own namesake – ‘Marble It Up LLC’. It’s out now on PC at present after a well-received debut on Switch. Today’s new incarnation features a PC-exclusive stage editor and Steam Workshop help to share your creations with the world. Roll on the launch trailer under.
The Marble Blast sequence has such a fantastic really feel to it, proper up there with Sega’s Super Monkey Ball. Your marble feels stable and heavy, however after every bounce (which will be chained by urgent leap earlier than a touchdown) you may apply spin whilst you’re nonetheless within the air. Master this and you are able to do wild issues to your trajectory every touchdown. It’s a easy time-attack game – acquire all of the gems within the stage and get to the end, with on-line leaderboards with ghost replays including competitors. Simple, however straightforward to lose hours to as you chase higher instances and hunt shortcuts in every stage.
The core of the game stays easy and accessible, however Marble It Up will get extra artistic with its ranges. There’s extra complicated shifting segments in Super Monkey Ball style and areas of subjective gravity to wrangle your clicky, clacky little ball by means of. Expert play unlocks extra marble skins, however it is a game of intrinsic rewards – a clear run and a excessive rating is all the time satisfying. There are some large free updates deliberate, too, with extra official stage packs and a number of other multiplayer modes (together with ‘baller royale’, no joke) detailed in this dev roadmap video here.
Marble it Up is out now on Steam for £13.16/€14.27/$16.99, revealed by Alvios, with an official page here. If you need to strive earlier incarnations, followers are nonetheless conserving the GarageGames’s unique Marble Blast Gold alive, full with multiplayer servers and mods here. There’s additionally an unofficial port of the now-defunct Marble Blast Ultra (an Xbox Live Arcade unique) here on Indie DB.
