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It's one of my favorite games on the PC. It's just a simple yet chaotic game of pinball, and that's all it needs to be. I wish it was more popular, it deserves it.
It has awesome pixel art and pinball itself just feels so crunchy, i have to love it!
I only wished it came out with more Pinball levels, that would have been awesome!

Wish I lived in a world where this tool off and Vampire Survivors bombed.

Messy and difficult to watch, not my game. Still got it's own style

This game fucking rips. Pinball is the coolest game ever made.

I bought an arcade stick to play this game better. It was worth it.


Oozing with style, edge and references to the occult, this Devil's Crush spiritual successor succeeds at what it sets out to do, but still feels as though it lacks something.

The art direction and sound design is immaculate but at the end of the day, it is simply just pinball with extra steps.

On top of that, it is just one board to play on, so the base price of it is hard to justify. I imagine it's a fun game to put on every now and again, but not something you'd play regularly.

It's pinball. It only has one table, but it's a very long and good table that looks cool.

Fun Pinball game, wish there was more than one board. Had a great time playing it overall!

Extremely poor reaction times on the flippers, which defeats the entire point of pinball.

In terms of pinball, the best one.

A pinball video game hasn’t grabbed me like this since Pokemon Pinball or Space Cadet. Great aesthetics and chunky, crunchy game feel. I’ve never had a tilt function feel so good.

I got 42M high score early and was always trying to beat it. I never did… I’ll keep returning occasionally in the hopes of doing so.

Ujasněme si jednu věc hned zpočátku. Je zde pouze jeden stůl za bratru pět stovek. Ano, ten stůl je velmi dobře nadesignován, má tolik "obsahu" a variant skórování, že i po mnoha a mnoha hodinách lze stále objevovat nová zákoutí. Jenže to se v rámci žánru tak nějak očekává.

Co ho odlišuje od kupříkladu vynikajícího Pinball FX3, který překypuje (pravda placeným; i tak však nejsme na stokorunách za stůl) obsahem? Sázkou na kvalitu, designem a chytlavou hratelností. To sice Pinball FX3 rovněž nabízí, ale musíte vědět, po kterém stolu šáhnout. Pokud půjdete na blind, hrozí že se trefíte do nudného balastu.

Dále si Demon´s Ti... Ehm, vlastně DEMON'S TILT nehraje na "jakože fyzický stůl, fyziku a plasticitu". Naopak je čistě digitální a 2D, dává nostalgicky vzpomenout na časy 16-bitových kultovních pinballů z Nintend, Amig a PCček. A tak jsou zde souboje "à la Space Invaders" a tuna dalších nápadů.

Bitová i osmdesátkově metalová stylizace tomu sedne. Až na jeden problém, který je zcela zásadní, pro mnohé to potopí, ale přesto z něho plyne v podstatě největší klad. (ne)Přehlednost obrazu. Tolik balastu, částic, blikání, výbuchů, skóre... Nic pro epileptiky. Víte jak pinbally, když se vám daří, spustí multiball mód? Nejde se v něm vyznat, ukočírovat ho. Jenže jde o záměr, chvilkové inferno za odměnu a pak návrat k normálu. Tak tady je to s jednou kuličkou to samé. O momentech, kdy jich máte ukočírovat vícero, ani nemluvě. Je to zdánlivě ubíjející vizuální bordel, kde kuličku uvidíte jednou za uherský rok. Ne-li za dva. Což je u hry, která je pouze a jen o cvrnkání do kuličky, jak jistě uznáte, poněkud problém.

Jenže není. Velmi záhy to "dostanete do ruky" a budete to plnohodnotně hrát čistě citem. Stejně tak jako se dva sehraní fotbalisté najdou poslepu zády k sobě, stejně tak jako se vyznáte na reklamami posetém ledě, kde puk není vidět, ale z pohybu hráčů přesně víte kde je, tak tady je to shodné. Kuličku sice neuvidíte, ale její pohyb dle efektů, síly úderu apod. zcela mimoděk vám během několika málo her přejde do krve.

Ve výsledku tak je největší překážkou zmíněná cena vůči množství obsahu. To si však každý musí vyhodnotit sám. Za mě snad jen tolik, že jde o sakra dobrý pinball, který vám vydrží pěkně dlouho než se ohraje. Pokud se vůbec kdy ohraje, protože ke všem dobrým pinballům se dá opakovaně vracet i po letech. A k tomuhle se vracet (chtít) budete.

Stellar experience on the Deck. I'm terrible at pinball but the action is so frenetic here that it makes me want to learn to get better. Very excited for Xeno Tilt, the follow-up

Think I could get Lilith's number?

Going to go out on a limb and say developer Wiznwar really liked Devil's Crush, because this sure looks like a send up to Demon's Crush. Even the name is about as close as you could get without being litigious, like how 1/6 scale figure bootleggers will rename licensed characters. This is clearly The Green Goblin from the Raimi Spider-Man movies, but please, if you would just refer to him as The Fiend.

Demon's Tilt is set up in an interesting way with its very long, very vertical table, which is divided into three tiers with their own demons and unique set of "rituals." These rituals are required to make progress, but mostly amount to the typical pinball stuff of hitting x number of bumpers or getting the ball up a certain ramp. Where the game really shines is in its presentation. The sprite art is excellent and the soundtrack is extremely invocative of the Yamaha YM2612. However, I can image some people finding this game to be a tad unreadable with how far back the camera is and how many effects are popping off. Without tweaking some settings, you might find it a little too easy to lose track of your ball, although zooming in and adding a trailing effect does help tremendously.

Unlike Flipnic and Akira Psycho Ball, there is no progression between tables. You just get the one, and that's fine. Each tier offers enough to keep the game exciting, and while I may not find myself sitting down and committing serious time to playing this thing, it is perfect if you want to kill an hour or so on a lazy afternoon. Just be careful about what order you complete rituals, it is possible to summon an actual pinball demon. He refuses to leave my home, he's already consumed a whole entire priest, and he's set up a Black Night 3000 table in my bedroom and plays it all hours of the night. Flames and spiders poured from his mandibles as he told me in a dead tongue that I'll be cast into Pinball Hell and damned to play Shaq Attack until my fingers whittle to bone, I hate him!!