Marbles The Game (video game)

Marbles The Game is a 2016 action-adventure video game based on the Marbles franchise by Jacob Harvey. It's developed by Clever Game Making and published by Clever Games.

It was released on 10 August 2016 on Game-Fi, and then Game-Fi Phase Two,, , , and on 3 March 2017.

An enhanced port of the game was released titled Marbles The Game DX.

Plot
The King Domino Foundation put out a public conference with the Domino Army's president Sergeant Domino making false claims about the Marble City God using the dominoes as props and thus abusing them. This sparked outrage by the public from Domino Town and wanted revenge on Marble City and its God. As a retaliation, King Domino kidnapped Marble Girl from her house to use her as a hostage.

Her kidnapping is reported on the news and is seen by Cherry Bomb and Sunny Yellow while they were watching TV. A broadcast was made in Marble City that the dominoes were declaring war on them and that they would destroy all the marbles that lived there, including their God. In response to the public panic, the Marble City God sent Cherry, Sunny, and Icey on a quest to King Domino's castle to rescue Marble Girl and to stop the dominoes’ invasion of Marble City.

After the 3 marbles get inside King Domino's castle, a fight ensues with the Marble City God coming to assist them. He put King Domino in a headlock allowing Cherry to dash into his face causing his domino form to break. After seeing King Domino's true self, they were surprised to see that he was tiny with a high-pitched voice. King Domino dared Cherry to fight him which made Cherry dash into him causing the king to fall to his death.

The marbles along with Marble Girl return back to Marble City with a ceremony being made that the war came to an end. They were declared heroes and were rewarded with cake and the title “Heroes of Marble City”.

Story
The game uses the Game-Fi Magic Controller (or the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controller or the PlayStation Move controller) to move the marble around the level. The player can jump by flicking the controller, thrust to dash forward, and flicking down to do a ground pound.

Players collect Marble Coins that have different amounts depending on their colour: bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. There’re also collectables in the game called "eggs", which there are 10 of them in each level.

The player can play as different marbles with their own unique abilities by switching over to them to progress the level or to find a egg, or a secret. They are unlocked and purchasable overtime as the player progresses the story. After beating a level, they can go back and play as any character they want to in order to find the eggs they missed.

The game features a hub world which allows the player to play new levels, or can be explored to complete challenge quests from NPCs, play extra levels or do other things in the world.

On the Game-Fi version, the player can die in one hit, but can get an extra hit point by finding a heart. This was changed in later versions to give the player 3 health points before they can die, which can be replenished by finding hearts in a level.

The Game-Fi versions of the game support Eleep with the ability to use figurines of Speedy Balls characters to play as them.

Challenges
"Challenges" is an unlockable game mode that allows you to play segments from certain levels with up to 4 players to compete against them.

Marbles The Game DX
Marbles The Game DX is an enhanced port of Marbles The Game. This version allows you to use standard controls rather than motion to control your character. It also features local and online co-op, new characters, alternate designs for characters, and 2 extra levels. The game also allows you to play as Speedy Balls characters previously only available from the Game-Fi versions of Marbles The Game using a Speedy Balls Eleep figure. The Game-Fi versions of the game includes an exclusive marble with the Game-Fi's "Action Cross" logo.

It was first released for, , , , , , Game-Fi Phase Two, and Kin on 3 March 2018. It was eventually ported and released for, Game-Fi Portable Phase Two, Game-Fi X3, Lifestyle Gaming, and Game-Fi Portable X3.

A, , and version of the game was released as part of Marbles The Game: The Golden Collection. The game was also available separately on and.