New indie roguelite BALL x PIT is breaking records as well as bricks. The base-building, brick-busting survival game from developer Kenny Sun and publisher Devolver Digital has sold more than 300,000 units since it launched on digital platforms like Steam less than one week ago. The BALL x PIT team shared the feat via the game’s verified account on X (formerly Twitter). “300,000!!! in 5 DAYS,” the post reads. “Thank you all!!!!” The post closes with a series of volleyball and confetti emojis.
The latest celebratory upload from the game’s team is not the first. On October 16 — just one day after BALL x PIT launched — the game’s official X account shared that they’d already surpassed 100,000 units sold. The post included only one word: “Woah”
Sun thanked players in a personal post following its 100,000 milestone. “Been too overwhelmed for a formal announcement post but BALL x PIT came out yesterday and I’m stunned by the response! I’m very grateful to everyone who helped make it possible.”
The BALL x PIT team shared another performance-related post on Tuesday. “Get us to a million copies and we just might drop this cheat,” they wrote. The attached gameplay clip shows a “SpamBalls” cheat in action, which is as chaotic as you’d expect. “i can not buy your game 700000 times,” one X user wrote. The BALL x PIT account replied: “little by little”
BALL x PIT is currently No. 55 in Steam daily active users (per SteamDB). At the time of writing, nearly 30,000 players are actively bustin’ bricks and battering enemies. The eye-popping brick-breaker is No. 13 in Steam top sellers and ranks No. 7 in the platform’s overall wishlist activity. BALL x PIT is currently No. 10 on Steam’s top-selling games list, just three spots behind PlatinumGames’ and Xbox Game Studios’ big-budget slasher Ninja Gaiden 4.
Indie Success in 2025
As prices for AAA blockbusters continue to climb beyond the industry’s expected $60-$70 range, many gamers are turning to comparatively inexpensive releases from independent developers around the world. Addictive indie hit BALL x PIT is one of several launches to break records since the start of the year. Earlier this month, Megabonk launched to resounding critical and commercial success, becoming one of several independent titles to pass 100,000 concurrent Steam players.
Megabonk shares the distinction with some of the year’s most notable releases, like Deltarune, PEAK, Hades II, Schedule I, and Hollow Knight: Silksong, among others.
Some of the year’s most successful releases have come from independent studios. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the awe-inspiring turn-based roleplaying game from developer Sandfall and publisher Kepler Interactive, has stayed atop myriad outlets’ speculative “Game of the Year 2025” pieces since its April 24 launch. The Belle Epoque-inspired RPG even influenced Google Trends data; translations for words like “gommage” and “patate” spiked following the game’s release, as did interest in French lessons.
About BALL x PIT
Fans of the classic games Breakout and Brick Breaker are in for a real treat. In the new indie arcade hit, players must take down invasive and persistent swaths of enemies with — you guessed it — ricocheting balls. Gamers accumulate riches as they continue, allowing them to expand their homestead, build resources, and lure unique new talents to their team.
“Ballbylon has fallen,” warns the game’s official description. “After a meteoric and completely unexpected event annihilated the great city, all that remains is an ominous, yawning pit. Treasure hunters from far and wide flock to the city’s tomb to seek their fortune, plumbing the depths in search of Ballbylon’s scattered riches. Few return.”
“The pit plays host to armies of barbaric creatures, hellbent on ending your quest before it even begins. Armed with a growing arsenal of magic-infused projectiles, batter your way through multiple levels of increasingly challenging obstacles to claim the ultimate prizes and rebuild New Ballbylon.”
BALL x PIT is available now on Steam, Xbox Series X|S (Game Pass included), PS5, and Nintendo Switch for $14.99.
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