Ballerspiel

Ballerspiel is a comic-style first- and third-person shooter where up to 64 players and 64 bots fight across eight maps. You can use pistols, shotguns, rocket launchers, a flamethrower, a shrink ray and an atomic bomb. Walls crumble and cars explode as battles unfold.

Game modes

Ballerspiel has six modes:

• Battle Royale: play solo with no respawns as a storm closes in. The first minute is a grace period when everyone is invisible and invulnerable, giving you time to find a weapon.
• Ballerball: two teams compete to shoot a heavy ball into the opposing goal. Explosions hit the ball hardest, the goal moves after every score, and hitting the ball too hard makes it go nuclear.
• Clown-Off: score by dancing, breakdancing, cartwheeling or farting in front of rivals or in the spotlight. Chain different moves into combos; if you die mid-combo, you lose it and your killer takes half.
• Free-for-All, Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag: play these modes on every map.

Destruction and power-ups

Almost everything can be shot apart, including fences, trees, barrels, furniture and walls. Bullets leave holes and explosions tear things apart; only the atomic bomb can flatten whole houses, leaving a radioactive cloud behind.

You can drive any of 16 vehicles, run over rivals and honk at other players. Loot boxes contain power-ups for infinite ammo, infinite grenades, infinite stamina, double health, double armor, invulnerability or invisibility. Different power-ups stack, while picking up the same one extends its duration. The shrink ray makes opponents tiny, and the expander turns them into giants. You can bounce an expander shot off a wall to hit yourself; cars bounce off giants.

Maps and progression

Every map can be played at six times of day—morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night or apocalypse—and in clear, cloudy, foggy or rainy weather. Each weapon has its own skill level, as do health, armor, grenades and movement. Each level adds a little precision, damage and blast radius, and the server you play on remembers your levels.

Online and offline play

You can find online matches through the server browser, play on official dedicated servers or host your own game. Steam and Epic Games Store players can play together on the official servers and in games hosted by either side. You can also run a dedicated server with your own map rotation, or connect directly by IP over a LAN without an internet connection.

Offline play supports up to 64 bots. Bots have names, levels and memory; they drive vehicles, fight for the flag and clown around. Kill streaks are announced in English or German, the leader wears a crown, and every clown can fart on command.