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8 BEST PINBALL GAMES ON ANDROID IN 2024
By Daniel Allen
Updated Jun 13, 2023
From genre mashups to classic tables, there’s something for everyone on the Play
Store
Source: PinOut, World Flipper, Space Pinball, Pinball Kingdom
Modern pinball has been around since the 1940s when Gottlieb hit upon the idea
of adding flippers to its popular tables. What began as simple electromechanical
novelties made up of switches and levers has evolved into computer-controlled
marvels with complex tables and full-color video.
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Just as physical pinball tables have evolved over the years, digital pinball
tables have seen their own evolution. The primitive graphics of Atari's 1977's
Video Pinball gave way to Nintendo's 1984 two-level penguin-adorned classic,
which in turn stepped aside for the over-the-top madness of Devil's Crush on the
TurboGrafx-16. Today's pinball games have taken the traditional forms to their
limits and, in some cases, pushed beyond them with some of the best Android
games around. Of course, if you want to push your phone, we have some excellent
recommendations.
1 VECTOR PINBALL
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Vector Pinball doesn't have any business being as good as it is. It eschews
graphics in lieu of gameplay and accurate physics. The tables are nothing but
lines and circles displayed in different colors, paired with pentatonic sound
effects straight from an 80s synthesizer in place of flashing lights and
clanging bells. The game currently offers seven tables to play on, and it's
actively supported, which means new content can drop at any time. Best of all,
Vector Pinball is completely open source (GPL 3), and if you're feeling up to
it, there's even an experimental table editor GUI you can play with to create
your own content.
2 PINOUT
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The best way to describe PinOut is that it's pinball meets an endless runner.
The game has one objective: advance your ball as far up the table as you can
before time runs out. Along the way, there are bonuses to increase your time,
power-ups to help you out, and mini-games just for funsies. The art style is
reminiscent of Tron, with neon and black tables. It's also worth it to play with
the sound up because the synthwave soundtrack perfectly accents the vibe of this
game and pulls everything together.
3 PORTAL PINBALL
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Even though the initial hype for Portal is 15 years old at this point, the
characters and the world they inhabit offer a provocative charm that's hard to
deny. Portal Pinball manages to capture this feeling perfectly in a challenging
yet rewarding pinball experience from Zen Studios, the king of pinball video
games. This table loosely follows the events of Portal 2, which means you must
unlock and complete a series of missions to help Chell escape the test facility.
For a themed game, every pinball fan should check out Portal Pinball, it's a ton
of fun, and fans of the Portal series will easily get a kick out of revisiting
the familiar story.
4 WORLD FLIPPER
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Have you ever felt like pinball doesn't have enough Japanese action RPG
elements? Me neither, but the combination of the two works really well in World
Flipper. You're tasked with building a team of three heroes to travel across
worlds, slay monsters, and defeat bosses. You can unlock new characters via a
daily gacha mechanic (you can also use in-game currency to unlock more).
Gameplay involves defeating monsters by earning combos and charging special
moves. World Flipper can be overwhelming at first, but after a few levels it all
starts to click. This is a game that's still actively supported with events and
offers flourishing communities on Reddit and Discord, a good sign this is a
healthy game that won't go anywhere soon.
5 PINBALL DELUXE: RELOADED
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On the surface Pinball Deluxe: Reloaded looks like a traditional pinball game
that offers polished graphics and satisfying physics, but if you give it a
little bit of time, there's a surprising amount of depth waiting to be
uncovered. There are six tables you can unlock for free and six you can
purchase, although you can play any of the tables on the Ladder Mode, which lets
you pit your skills against other players for a chance to rank up. But one of
the most refreshing parts of the game is how original and different the tables
are from the "traditional" pinball games, so give this a look if you're hunting
for something a little different.
6 PINBALL KINGDOM: TOWER DEFENSE
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The mashup of pinball and tower defense works surprisingly well. The tables are
made up of simple obstacles you have to avoid while destroying the enemy spawn
points before their mobs can overcome your village just below your flippers.
Everytime you let a mob slip past your defenses, you lose a bit of health, and
everytime you let the ball through, you lose a big chunk of health. Thankfully
you can unlock upgrades to purchase with earned in-game currency that will boost
your village health, or provide you with a faster, more powerful ball. If you
don’t have the coin for an upgrade, you can always spend real money to buy more.
7 PINBALL FLIPPER
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Pinball Flipper is a great game for a quick game of pinball. The controls are
solid, the graphics look good, and the physics aren’t too wonky. There are 12
tables to play on and all of them are unlocked right from the beginning. Some of
them are traditional tables, but others borrow from other games like the
unlicensed Pokémon table or the pinball/break out fusion table. Pinball Flipper
also does something most pinball games don’t, they’ve got achievements, both for
the game and the individual tables.
8 PINBALL - SMASH ARCADE
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Pinball video games are best when they change the formula a bit. Pinball - Smash
Arcade does that by requiring you to hit a bumper at the top of the table until
its health is reduced to zero. Your ball deals out more damage based on the
bonuses you pick up on the table. It also has a bit of a Candy Crush vibe where
you are clearing tables and playing new ones (over 100 tables). The only caveat
with this game is it’s best played on airplane mode, otherwise the ads can be
too aggressive, but barring that, this is an enjoyable, unique entry in the
library of pinball games.
HAVE SOME FLIPPING FUN ON YOUR PHONE
Pinball games are far from the largest genre on the Play Store, but there are
more than enough titles out there to satisfy your pinball cravings. Despite the
dearth of titles to choose from, there is an abundance of creativity, with many
titles taking advantage of mechanics that could never be possible on a physical
table. That, and digital pinball offers up its pleasures for free — no more
making change to feed quarters to the table. Between all these great titles (and
the massive table libraries from Zen Studios and others), there's something on
the Play Store to pique the interest of every pinball enthusiast. But if skill
shots aren't your thing, perhaps you should check out these awesome FPS games on
Android for an adrenaline rush.
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the surface (check out his explainers on mobile photography). He's been writing
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