The Ball demo is out

The ball and zombie

Roly poly squashing sim The Ball was released last week, along with a trailer showing off the games mixture of puzzles and spectacular crushing. If the sight of hundreds of mummies being bowled into oblivion wasn't enough to when your appetite, a demo has just been released. Read on for details, and a video of nine ways to kill a Mummy, eight of which don't involve crushing them with a giant magic ball.

You can grab the demo now on Steam , or from Big Download . It contains contains several levels from the main game as well as a survival mode map. How many Mummies can you crush before you're overwhelmed? Here's a hint: it's a lot. For more information on the Ball, check out Teotl Studio's site . meanwhile, more gratuitous mummy death can be found in the video below.

Tom Senior

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.