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Marble Blast

by sunday_serif on 6/24/25, 12:01 AM with 35 comments

• by darthcircuit on 6/24/25, 3:10 AM

  If you want a more dedicated game that can be downloaded, check out

  https://marbleblastultra.com/

  I believe this is a reverse engineered port based on the Xbox 360 version.

  I play it on my steamdeck once in a while. I like having native controller support now that I’m getting older.

• by LanceH on 6/24/25, 2:46 PM

  Cool. I have have a least one of my custom maps on there.

  It was my son's favorite game when he was 3-5, so I started making maps that couldn't be failed, working my way up to some tricky things.

  At one point I made a birthday cake map and my wife decorated a cake to look like it. Ring pops for the gems, and an upside down reese's peanut butter cups decorated with icing for the start/finish pads. Of note, putting icing on a reese's does taste good, it is a step too far for human consumption.

• by archerx on 6/24/25, 4:23 AM

  I made a rolling ball game a while back. https://sphoxie.com if anyone wants to check it out.

• by mdtrooper on 6/24/25, 7:55 AM

  The oldies are great such as: https://neverball.org/

• by tronium on 6/24/25, 2:29 PM

  Macs released from 2002-2005 shipped with Marble Blast Gold on them. Playing it is one of my earliest memories (I was 5 at the time), especially taking absolutely forever to figure out the two Escher's Maze levels.

  Great game :)

• by n8cpdx on 6/24/25, 2:31 AM

  It isn’t obvious at first but there are touch controls and they work really well.

• by Savageman on 6/24/25, 10:19 AM

  Is it normal that when I "turn" the camera stays still? Makes it quite unplayable for me (I tried both "Free camera" enabled/disabled, it didn't change anything)

• by Bondi_Blue on 6/25/25, 4:10 AM

  I am surprised nobody has mentioned this port of Marble Blast Gold.

  https://marbleblastgold.randomityguy.me/

  He also did Platinum and Ultra.

  https://github.com/RandomityGuy/MBHaxe

• by smithstreet on 6/24/25, 11:20 AM

  Is there a 'Black Diamond' level from the xbox 360 original? if so, where can i find it

• by Apreche on 6/24/25, 2:35 AM

  Pretty good for a browser game! Not quite Super Monkey ball, but not far off either.

• by reverendsteveii on 6/25/25, 3:59 PM

  My boss absolutely did not need me to find a super monkey ball clone in the middle of what otherwise would have been the workday. Thank you.

• by jbverschoor on 6/24/25, 9:07 AM

  I'd call it Marble Drift :)

• by spapas82 on 6/24/25, 7:11 AM

  This would be really great if

  A. Was playable on mobile

  B. Could use the phone's gyroscope for controlling the ball

• by truemotive on 6/25/25, 8:35 PM

  Welp, there goes my day.

• by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on 6/24/25, 1:56 PM

  Trying to find the powerup button I hit Ctrl and closed the tab

  lol