Pig Eat Ball
2018 · Mommy's Best Games
Has it aged?Why ↓
Pig Eat Ball is an arcade maze-puzzler where you fly as Princess Bow, a magical pig, swallowing tennis balls until you're too fat to squeeze through a passage. Then you vomit them back out. It's a revoltingly good idea: collecting everything makes navigating harder, not easier.
Pig Eat Ball is a top-down, action-adventure about eating, getting fat, and barfing on things to solve levels. Explore 20 giant space stations to find different Disguises, and using their Pros and Cons, fight and solve your way through over 200 action-puzzle levels using new, arcade-style mechanics.
The publisher’s description, from its Steam store page.
What it looks like
the trailer, then the store's own shots
The verdict
Play it for the puzzle design, not just the spectacle of a pig being sick. Having to surrender the balls you've collected to fit through a gap makes even a narrow passage an interesting obstacle. Conveyor belts, tennis-playing bugs and sandwich-making races give that central trick enough competition to keep it from swallowing the whole game. The lurid art is the admission test; the inventiveness is the reward.
Play it if
You like compact maze challenges where movement and planning matter together, and enjoy learning a new rule rather than repeating a perfected routine. You can appreciate a sandwich-making race against beetles without needing the world to make sense.
Skip it if
Anyone who cannot stomach repeated vomiting, even in cartoon form, or finds intensely saturated colours unbearable. Eating, spewing and eating again is the central activity, not an optional gross-out gag.
Common questions
- Why does Princess Bow have to spit out the tennis balls?
- Eating balls makes her larger, so she can become too big for narrow gaps. Vomiting shrinks her again, but leaves balls to collect.
- Is every stage about eating all the tennis balls?
- That's the goal in most stages, but some replace it with challenges such as racing beetles to assemble sandwiches for a giant yeti. Others change the rules with limited health or spikes you deliberately hit to avoid vomiting.
- Can I play mazes made by other players?
- The 2018 release includes shareable user-made levels alongside hundreds of built-in stages.
What everyone else said
we link, we don't reprintHas it aged?
How does it hold up today? Based on recent reviews, how opinions have changed since launch, player activity and updates.
Too few recent reviews to stand alone, so this leans on its all-time rating.
Reviews via Steam ↗We don't have player counts for it.
Still well liked.
The developer posts no update notes on Steam, so we can't tell.