The newest indie game sensation of 2025 is the recently released survival roguelite BALL x PIT, one of the year's most surprising and addictive releases. There's been a wave of incredible indie games this year, from Hollow Knight: Silksong to Megabonk to Blue Prince, with BALL x PIT launching to over 300,000 units sold in its first week.
At this pace, BALL x PIT looks poised to break a million copies sold, and in anticipation of this, developers released a teaser video on X of a unique "SpamBalls" cheat that they plan to release after reaching the impressive milestone. The SpamBalls cheat code announcement has players asking all sorts of questions, with some fans not even realizing cheats were an option at all.
BALL x PIT is a contender for this year's most addictive indie survival game yet, with recent unexpected hit Megabonk being a close runner-up. According to developer
Kenny Sun (via X), the game already surpassed 300,000 copies sold in its first five days of launch, a truly impressive feat for a small indie project.
This morning, in anticipation of hitting another huge milestone based on the trajectory of the game's current success, BALL x PIT released...
