PONG Quest

Critic reviews

• Xbox Tavern

  Graham Cameron · Jun 26, 2020

  7.0

  PONG Quest surprised me in a good way, as I didn’t believe a game based around PONG could hold my attention for this long. But once I started on the story mode, I felt compelled to play all the way through it. The different ball power-ups are so interesting and make the PONG experience much more fun. With the charming paddle identity’s, it makes for a fun experience. My only concern is that once the adventure is over, I am not sure whether I would revisit the game.

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• NintendoLife

  Jon Mundy · May 20, 2020

  4.0

  Sparsely laid out, mechanically simplistic, and generally a bit of a bore to play, PONG Quest fails to do anything meaningful with this most neglected of gaming properties. The adventuring element is paper-thin, and even the game of bat-and-ball at the heart of its battle system feels flat and lifeless. As always with Pong, local multiplayer is your best bet for fun, but there's little that's fresh about that.

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• Game Informer

  Brian Shea · May 18, 2020

  7.3

  I enjoyed my time with Pong Quest, but with unbalanced abilities, generic dungeon crawling, and repetitive battles, the experience struggled to hold my attention. Pong Quest delivers a fun and unique take on the well-known classic, but the novelty wears thin even before the brief campaign comes to a close.
• Nintendo World Report

  Brett Posner-Ferdman · May 16, 2020

  3.5

  Pong Quest wasn’t just a mediocre game, it was an infuriating one. Wonky enemy AI, a terrible special ball and HP system, and a lack of content made the game feel like a chore to play, as opposed to being a good time. When I wasn’t bored with the lack of substance to this game, I was aggravated by every enemy encounter and the core battle mechanics.

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• Pure Nintendo

  Kirk Hiner · May 15, 2020

  6.0

  Considering their amazing catalog, I’m not sure why Atari keeps trying to make 1972’s Pong relevant for modern gamers. Pong Quest is a clever, valiant run at it, aided by solid controls and some decent multiplayer life. But it’s still just Pong, and the game is at its best when they help you forget that.

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• Hardcore Gamer

  Jeremy Peeples · Apr 25, 2020

  8.0

  Pong Quest overachieves and winds up delivering a top-notch game of Pong while also paying tribute to and expanding upon dungeon-crawling RPG tropes. The randomly-generated dungeons after death help keep things fresh as do things like Breakout and puzzle mini-games. The core formula is a bit repetitive, but the game wisely doesn’t drag on and moves briskly from dungeon to dungeon with new bosses and minor gameplay tweaks with new ball modifiers helping to keep the action exciting.

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