Why Does the Ball Fall?
An idle game about dropping balls
Hit a goal hole and the ball rolls one lane deeper; miss and it is gone. Spend coins to seal holes, widen the goals and unlock fruit and animal balls, then watch your tower of 30 lanes grow downward. Nice to just watch, too.
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The ball just falls
A ball rolls around a round dish until it drops into one of the holes. A goal hole sends it one lane deeper. A miss hole ends its run. All you do is launch balls and decide what to spend your coins on.
The deeper you go, the harder the dish
Every lane adds one more hole. Lane 2 has three goal holes out of six. Lane 20 has one goal hole out of twenty.
But a dish that keeps swallowing your balls slowly gets planks nailed over its miss holes, so it always opens up in the end. Leave it alone and it still makes progress.
▼ The deeper the lane, the thinner the goal (green)
Choose what your coins do
Block a Hole, Bigger Goal, Magnetic Goal, Auto Launcher, Lane Goes BRRR! What you buy first changes how you descend.
24 kinds of balls, each with its own trick
Peach survives one miss. Orange carries friends down with it. Dog guards the dish and hands out retries. Cat, Lion and Panda are very rare.
Books and achievements
Every ball you meet is recorded in the books. Eleven achievements are waiting, from lane 30 to a bursting piggy bank and 777.
Hell Mode, with no help at all
Clear lane 30 once and Hell Mode unlocks. Miss holes never seal themselves there. The shop is your only friend.
The balls (some of them)
24 kinds in all. Meet the rest in the game.
- Peachsurvives one miss
Orangecarries every other ball on the dish down with it- Watermelona goal on lane 1 warps it to lane 5
- Chickhatches more chicks further down
Dogguards the dish and gives other balls a retry- Penguinslides back for a second attempt half the time
- Sheepturns miss holes into goal holes for a while
- Casinothree numbers make a hand; 777 pays 7,777,777 coins
- Cat, Lion, Pandavery rare, very generous
Achievements
System requirements
| OS | Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) |
|---|---|
| CPU | dual core or better |
| Memory | 4 GB |
| Graphics | Vulkan 1.0 capable GPU (roughly 2015 or newer) |
| Storage | 500 MB |
| Input | Mouse & keyboard / partial controller support |
| Languages | 日本語 / English / 한국어 / 简体中文 |
A demo that goes up to lane 10 is ready. How to get it will be announced when the Steam store page opens.
Devlog
Behind-the-scenes posts start here once the Steam store page is live.