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Road to Ballhalla

A snarky and rhythm-driven action game about rolling around. Prepare your balls for an epic journey to Ballhalla. Feel the rhythm to overcome deadly hazards and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of…

77 5 August 2016

Road to Ballhalla is an adventure developed by Torched Hill, released 5 August 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Road to Ballhalla is

Road to Ballhalla is an adventure game developed by Torched Hill and released in 2016. It was published by tinyBuild. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A snarky and rhythm-driven action game about rolling around. Prepare your balls for an epic journey to Ballhalla. Feel the rhythm to overcome deadly hazards and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year. May the torque be with you!
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 21 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Road to Ballhalla holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Dual-Core Intel or AMD processor, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 550 GTX / AMD Radeon 5770 HD series card. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it launched against

Road to Ballhalla launched on 5 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu and Overcooked!. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu, Overcooked!.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

Road to Ballhalla — frequently asked questions

When did Road to Ballhalla come out?
Road to Ballhalla was released on 5 August 2016 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Road to Ballhalla?
At minimum, Road to Ballhalla needs Dual-Core Intel or AMD processor, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 550 GTX / AMD Radeon 5770 HD series card graphics, 1 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Road to Ballhalla?
The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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