Vector Pinball

I would like to recommend Vector Pinball to anyone with even a passing interest in video pinball or video games.

I find this game to be very impressive, even more so as a free app on F-droid. I need to send this dev some cash, I have probably put >200 hours into this game and I am really enjoying it.

Things I like:
Physics are perfect.
8 boards
Each board plays very uniquely.
Great depth of play, the boards are complex and take some work to unlock/see everything.
Addictive.
Some boards are very difficult.
Unique look with vector graphics. Reminds me of Tron.
Pretty good music.

Things I don't like:
My phone doesn't have pinball buttons. Doing that on the screen is a bit awkward. Workable but awkward.
The ball can pass between your flippers with no chance to hit it. Often normal for pinball, this always annoys me. I think I should always have some chance to hit and save the ball.
Show me my score and high scores as soon as I finish a game. I should not have to press a button or wait for the scrolling to see these.

9/10

alehc,
Ephera,

I’m so bad at this game. I’ll usually shred through those 3 balls in less than a minute. I’m not sure, if that’s just how pinball is or I’m doing something wrong. 🫠

ace_garp,
@ace_garp@lemmy.world avatar

Most tables are very hard, try the starter-table first(large white circle in the middle).

Then go for the banks of drop targets(green and blue banks).

Ephera,

Ah, thanks, that table is a bit easier. I was mostly playing on the smallest table, because that looked the simplest, but I guess, that just puts the ball a lot nearer to the bottom…

massive_bereavement,
massive_bereavement avatar

Fantastic pinball, even better coming from fdroid repo.

My favorite table is the one with the laser/triangle lights in the middle.

squeakycat,

Heh, haven’t seen that name in a while. I remember playing with it on my first smartphone back in 2013

guyrocket,
guyrocket avatar

Try it again. Pretty sure you'll find new boards to play.

possiblylinux127, (edited )

Just a side note but you will need to figure out how to play as just assumes you know how to play pinball.

Fun game though

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