Developer Whale Peak Games
Publisher Super Rare Originals
Format PC (tested), Xbox One, Xbox Series
Release Out now
Before setting up Whale Peak Games, Jakob Wahlberg cut his teeth as an artist on the SteamWorld games. Yet his studio’s debut release, a frenetic arcade-style Roguelike, could hardly be farther from the sedate likes of SteamWorld Heist or Quest. Go Mecha Ball is the twin-stick shooter as fairground ride, by way of the pinball table: your spherical mech is regularly propelled up vertical ramps and through chutes, unfurling its arms and legs to rain down laser destruction on robotic opponents.
Those enemies have emerged from some manner of portal, revealed in simple title