The lift groans as it climbs through the darkness, its rusted machinery dragging you away from the blood-soaked depths you’ve spent countless hours conquering. Above, the ruins of a forgotten city hang suspended in the sky, its shattered streets crawling with creatures twisted by the meteor that destroyed their world. The doors grind open. Something monstrous stirs beyond the rubble. You’ve survived everything the pit could throw at you, but the nightmare waiting overhead has only just begun.
BALL x PIT: Risen Ballbylon launches today, bringing a massive paid expansion to Kenny Sun and Friends’ addictive ball-bouncing roguelite. Published by Devolver Digital, the DLC sends players soaring above the familiar abyss into a ruined city packed with new enemies, devastating ball combinations, and enough upgrades to make even the most experienced treasure hunters reconsider their strategies.
What Goes Down Must Come Up
Forget descending deeper into the pit. This time, you’re heading skyward. Risen Ballbylon introduces four new battlefields, each representing a different floor of the floating city. More than 40 enemies stand between you and the top, alongside four bosses determined to send you straight back down.
The expansion also introduces 45 new passive abilities, including Lucky Coin, Eldritch Gauntlet, Vampire’s Kiss, Volatile Explosive, and Relentless Whip. With so many fresh effects entering the mix, familiar builds could take some unexpected turns.
If you’ve already spent hundreds of hours discovering outrageous combinations, there’s a whole new collection of ways to break the game waiting overhead.
Eight New Ways to Raise Hell
Eight new playable characters join the roster, bringing abilities that dramatically change how you approach combat. The Sentinel can aim in any direction, opening up new possibilities for targeting enemies across the battlefield. The Stonewaller sends balls warping to the opposite side of the screen when they first strike a wall, creating opportunities for attacks from unexpected angles. Then there’s the Right Hand Man, whose balls deal double damage when they hit the right wall but only half when they strike the left.
That makes positioning a vital part of building your strategy. With each character introducing different mechanics, even familiar weapons and upgrades could behave in surprising ways.
Have a Ball, or Twenty-Four
Of course, it wouldn’t be BALL x PIT without an increasingly ridiculous arsenal of bouncing projectiles. The expansion introduces 24 new balls, including some wonderfully destructive additions.
The Beast ball latches onto enemies and continues damaging them until they die, while the Kaiju ball unleashes earthquakes across the battlefield. Misfortune curses its targets, and the Hedgehog ball brings a deadly collection of spikes into the mix. These new weapons can be fused into powerful combinations, creating fresh opportunities for the screen-filling destruction that made the original game so difficult to put down.
With new characters, balls, and passives interacting, finding your next outrageously overpowered build might take some serious experimentation.
Building a Better Ballbylon
The changes extend way beyond combat. Back in your village, 20 new buildings offer additional opportunities to expand your settlement, including a Floating Fortress, Crystal Monolith, Soup Kitchen, Circus Tent, and Fission Chamber. You’ll also be mining crystals, a new resource that adds another bonus to the game’s economy.
These additions give players fresh reasons to develop their base between expeditions, strengthening the progression loop that keeps each run feeling worthwhile. Risen Ballbylon is available as a $6.99 expansion (upon the time of writing), with access unlocked after completing the base game.
For anyone who thought they’d finally escaped BALL x PIT‘s addictive grip, the developers have some terrible news. The pit was only the beginning. Now there’s an entire city above it, and your balls have unfinished business.