Rollers

AKA: Ballers

Games where you are a sphere and you roll about.

Examples

(Bunch of new ones popping up. Probably due to beginner tutorials for doing ball-rolling stuff with Unity and Unreal Engine.)

1984 - Marble Madness
1990 - Jump'n Roll - Amiga game where you avoid obstacles in a pseudo-3-D
1994 - Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth
1997 - Armadillo Racing
1998 - Kula World - Grid-based movement.
2000 - Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble
200x - Tiltronica (unreleased) info.
2001 - Super Monkey Ball
2002 - Marble Blast
2003 - ボールの王子様¹⁾
2003– - Neverball (open-source) get
2004 - Ball Racer
2004 - Jump'n Roll - 3-D Crillion-ish game (without the bouncing).
2004 - Hamsterball - Marble Madness-like
2004 - Habitrail Hamster Ball - Licensed Monkey Ball clone
2005 - Pac 'n Roll - Pac 'n Roll Remix has appeared on two compilations since.
2007 - Namco Museum Remix - Hub world thing and some of the game modes (Galaga [indirect], Pac'n Roll, Pac Motos, …) have different kinds of rolling.
2007 - REALPLAY Puzzlesphere - PS2 game with it's own ball-shaped motion controller.
2008 - vertigo|Vertigo / Spinout
2008 - The Incredible Maze
2009²⁾ - Super Gerball
2009 - Equilibrio - 2-D, WiiWare, Roller meet Cameltry.
2010 - Puzle Dimension get
2010 - Hamsterball - Unsure of the relationship between this and the 2004 game wit hthe same name. Different developers, same logo. This one plays like Monkey Ball though.
2011 - Jump N Roll - Sidescroller for phones info
2013 - InFlux - get get
- 2024 - InFlux Redux - get
2013? - Ballenger video
2015 - Marble Muse
2015 - JamG
2015 - Dexterity Ball 3D
2015 - Puzzle Ball
2015 - Space Hole series 2016 2018 2020
2016 - Groovy
2016 - Mazement
2016 - Road to Ballhalla
2016 - Tiltagon
2016 - Spherical Constitution get
2016 - Super Impossible Road
2016 - Marble Void get
2016 - Steamroll
- 2021 - Steamroll: Rustless Edition
2016 - Marble Mountain get
2017 - Finnish Roller get
2017 - Winexy get
2017 - Steel Punk Ball
2017 - Totally Unbalanced
2017 - Marble Skies
2017 - Celestial Hacker Girl Jessica get
2017 - Maso Marble get
2017 - Marble Masters: The Pit get - physics-puzzley, combatty?
2017 - Polyball get
2018 - Galaxy Ball get
2018 - Marble it Up
2018 - Roboball get
2018 - Marble Race get
2018 - Poly and the Marble Maze get
2018 - Mindball Play get
2018 - Knockdown the Ball get
- 2020 - Knockdown the Ball Twice get
2019 - Marble Odyssey get
2019 - Marble Combat get - Multiplayer combat thing.
2019 - Marble Marcher get - Fractal boards.
2019 - E Marble get
2020 - Paperball get
2020 - Skully get
2020 - Snow Game get
2020 - Cyber Hamster Tilt get
2020 - Super Marble Brothers get
2020 - Marble Parkour series get
2020 - QUAD DEATH: Core Meltdown EX get
2020 - Plataforma Branca 1486170 - Birds-eye perspective
2021 - Destruction Rocks get - Multiplayer.
2021 - Frog Ball get
- 2021 - Frog Ball Rerolled get
2021 - Rolled Out! Homepage get - Looks good! Level design by the person who made a popular Monkey Ball mod called Super Monkey Ball Gaiden.
2021 - Sphere Game Epic get
2021 - The Fantaballous Tilt get
2022 - Marble Mouse get
2022 - Vacuum Ball get - Control ball that vacuums up cubes.
2022 - Jump Ball get
2024 - Dash & Roll get - Looks floaty as fuck.
2024 - Circus Elephant get
2024 - Wonder Ball get
202x - Rollerghoaster early demo

get dates (open-source):

Minigames

Rollers within other games.

2005 - Fort Boyard: The Challenge has two different roller minigames. One where you roll a ball down a plank trying to get past a bunch of pegs, and a birds-eye view maze where you tilt the board.
2007 - Wii Fit series.
2011 - uDraw Studio: Instant Artist has two roller minigames that use the tilt function of the Wii. One where you navigate a maze, and one where you roll a ball to make drawings.
2017 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has some motion controlled ones in a couple of shrines.
2022 - Kirby and the Forgotten Land has a birds-eye view roller minigame in the town.

No-control

See Marble Racing§Videogames for games where you don't directly control the marbles, but usually design the courses (runs) for them to travel through.

Physical

Perplexus Homepage

SpongeBob SquarePants: 3D Obstacle Odyssey - You don't roll, but levels sure seem like Monkey Ball ones.

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¹⁾

Trans.: The Prince of the Ball | Source: Google Translate

²⁾

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Table of Contents

Rollers

Examples

Minigames

No-control

Physical

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