Pool game roguelike STICKER/BALL is total unfiltered score-chasing chaos

Love a bit of chaos and watching numbers go up? STICKER/BALL is probably one of the nuttiest combo-chasing games I've played for a while. Note: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux.

Taking the basic idea of Pool (billiards / cue sports) with you shooting a ball across a table, but here it has you slap stickers everywhere to get your ball bouncing and causing all sorts of issues. Hit dice to earn points, and all the sticker effects add various extras to make numbers go up everywhere. And at times, you'll see your ball (or balls) ricochet everywhere causing quite a scene.

All the extras you stick on the board are just completely ridiculous. Spiders, UFOs, poo, slot machines, trucks and the list goes on and on and on. It's pretty random on what it gives you and what you can pick during a run, but that's part of the hook of it - you never really know what's going to happen once you unleash the ball onto the table. It does take a little bit to get going though, and you'll go through a number of failed runs before it starts to click together.

There's so many fun interactions between everything, that watching it all unfold on every shot once you're further in is quite fun. The downside is that the chaos and all the effects start stacking up that you quickly end up without a clue what's actually going on. I still don't think I've managed to grasp it properly, it requires a good few hours to get the flow of it properly.

Stripped to the basics it's a round-based game where you battle "friends" to beat an ever-increasing score. You have limited balls to shoot across the table each round, as you try to cause as much chaos as you can to keep smashing combos and see you score tick up. It's all about getting that perfect shot, where you can end up bouncing constantly and repeatedly activating everything you can.

If you run out of balls, it's game over and try again with a completely different set of stickers to cause more total bedlam.

See the release trailer below:

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It runs perfectly on Desktop Linux (Fedora KDE) with Proton 11 Beta.

While it could do a better job of explaining what the heck is going on, it's still good fun to attempt it.

If you enjoy games that are quite random, with score-chasing featured in games like Balatro or anything like it - you'll probably have a lot of fun with this one. The game is very easy to get into, but surprisingly tricky to understand. Even so, you'll keep on coming back for another run to just see how ridiculous you can make it.