Games like Ballance
If Ballance is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Line, Chip Off The Ol' Stumbling Block and Mondrian 99 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and nostalgic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Ballance: In this 2004 classic originally released by Atari games, you will navigate 12 sky-high courses. Each course is fraught with different obstacles that will block your path, slide your marble off course, or blow them right into the bottomless void below.
Players who liked Ballance also play
Steam players who put hours into Ballance also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Chip Off The Ol' Stumbling Block
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ballance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Ballance.
A physics-based runner where you weave between obstacles, set off explosives, and use your environment to reach the end. Travel through five unique environments, conquer nine different obstacle types, and make it to the other side in one piece!
Mondrian 99
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ballance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Ballance.
In "Mondrian 99", You can complete the level by Running and Jumping, or by Sprinting and Gliding. It all depends on you. In short, just reach the finish line - the way you pass the level is up to your imagination.
EDGE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ballance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
EDGE, the award winning retro-styled platform game has been extended! Now with over 40 brand new levels, additional music and all-new races against the notorious Dark Cube!
O.W.L Projekt 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ballance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Ballance.
Explore O.W.L Projekt 2 with Elysion in a renewed world, facing even more complex challenges, fast enemies, and new mechanics like portals of different colors. Use the Sanctum Staff to overcome traps and escape the Watchers in an exciting adventure.
Gravity Mastery
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ballance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A perspective-disorienting puzzler where the definition of down is yours to decide. Change the flow of gravity to complete each of The Adviser's varied, but logical tests. Can you become proficient enough to control the six directions and master gravity?
Frisbee For Fun
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ballance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Frisbee is joy, frisbee is fun! You are a very mischievous kitten that uses helpless chickens as targets.
Lost Keys
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ballance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Ballance.
In Lost Keys, you are in the role of a little boy, who got lost in a place full of dangers, embark on this adventure journey, overcome all obstacles and help Breno to return home!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ballance at current Steam store prices.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ballance on Steam right now.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Ballance on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ballance.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ballance on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ballance.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ballance on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ballance.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Ballance on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ballance.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Ballance on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ballance.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Superflight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ballance on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ballance.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Ballance.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Ballance.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Frequently asked about Ballance
- Does Ballance run on Steam Deck?
- Ballance is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Ballance cost?
- Ballance is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ballance?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ballance are The Line, Chip Off The Ol' Stumbling Block, Mondrian 99.
- Who developed Ballance?
- Ballance was developed by Cyparade and published by Ziggurat.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Ballance.
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