Ball x Pit was one of my top indie titles of 2025, and its balls have been buffed several times over since then with free updates.
But now, a paid DLC has hit Ballbylon, and at $6.99, it’s worth every penny so long as you can withstand the ball-busting difficulty. The Risen Ballbylon expansion is here, and it takes the fight above as opposed to below as you ascend in your elevator to find new enemies, riches, and biomes to explore.
I can’t overstate the value that this DLC brings for just a few bucks. Four new biomes/stages, eight new playable characters, 24 new balls, 20 new ball evolutions, 20 new buildings, 46 new passive abilities…you get the picture. There’s a lot more Ball in here, and you need every bit of balls you have because this DLC is tough, which is to be expected considering it’s an endgame activity only available once you’ve completed the base game.
The ballbreaking begins with the first new stage, FLOODEDxSEWERS, which is filled with sharks and mermen and all sorts of other deep-sea-like creatures throwing spears at you, and never really slows down from there. Gathering the new playable characters is crucial, because they are indeed powerful, leaving a lot of the base game’s characters in the dust. But the progress is slow at first thanks to a new material that is hard to come by in the beginning: Crystals.
These Crystals are found within new levels, like gold and collectible power gems, but in scarce supply to begin with. These are needed to build basically all of the new buildings, but especially the houses that unlock the new playable Hunters. I think my favorite so far is the Wallbreaker, whose balls hit the wall and some come out the other side, making for some very fun geometry and wildness when baby balls start taking up the screen.
Your base will need to be fully upgraded from the jump, so if you’re like me and didn’t play too much New Game Plus or continue on the expansion after finishing the story, you may have some grinding to do early on because the new stages hit hard, and they hit you right in the balls.
Mastering the new ball abilities, and especially the new Hunters and their plethora of new passive abilities you can select on any given run, will be crucial for success. I’m still trying to grind my way through the levels, collecting crystals where I can, but it’s slow-going…and still just as fun as I remember Ball x Pit to be.
But really, at $6.99, this really is a no-brainer addition to your library if you even got the smallest amount of joy out of Ball x Pit when it launched last year. It’s just a whole lot more of the great base game, with a new challenge for those who are looking for it.
The only question that remains: do you have the balls required?
