Ballance

Ballance is a puzzle-platform game developed by the Swedish developer Cyparade and published by Atari in 2004 for Microsoft Windows.

Gameplay
You control a ball which wanders through a labyrinth, solving puzzles in order to reach an airship that carries you to the next level.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Challenging, yet fair difficulty, as extra lives and checkpoints are easy to find.
 * 2) Many different ways to solve puzzles.
 * 3) There is no time limit, unlike other games of the same kind: instead you lose points for every second that you lose. You start every level with 1000 points and can get extra points scattered around the level, thus incentivizing you to play the game better in order to get a higher score.
 * 4) You can play as three balls: wooden, stone and paper and each ball controls in a different way. The stone ball is slower and heavier, but can push harder blocks and break wooden bridges; the paper ball is faster and lighter and can levitate by standing on fans; the wooden ball is more balanced, as it moves as fast as the paper ball and can push certain blocks.
 * 5) In some levels you need to combine the Strengths of every ball to solve a puzzle.
 * 6) Many levels add new gimmicks such as rails, monorails or elevators.
 * 7) Great graphics for 2004.
 * 8) Great replay value.
 * 9) Awesome gameplay inspired by games such as Marble Madness.
 * 10) Good community that makes levels still today.
 * 11) A 13th level was made available for download.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) If you know what to do and/or ignore the community-made levels, the game feels somewhat short, as there are only 12 levels.
 * 2) There is no level editor so, in order to create levels, you need to modify the game's files through external methods.
 * 3) The screen is stretched if you play in a modern computer.