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Pinball Cadet – Casual Game Review
Pinball Cadet is a Casual game from FarSight Studios, first launched in 10th September 2017.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 30+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pinball Cadet Stand Out
The year is 2030 and mankind is being threatened by Invaders from a nearby galaxy. We need an intergalactic Pinball hero to protect us!
Only those with outstanding Pinball skills will be chosen to defend Earth, but not so fast!
Before you are deployed into space to fight off the Invaders, you must first prove yourself in the MMS Pinball Trainship – the ultimate Pinball Warfare Simulator.
Pinball Cadet Features:
- Easy to learn, hard to master gameplay.
- Humanity has never seen a 2D Pinball game with physics this realistic.
- Trap, Cradle, Post Pass, Dead Flipper Pass, Backhand Shots and many more real life Pinball Skills.
- Innovative Mechanics bring Pinball to the Digital Age.
- Huge "Open Board" game. Explore every nook and cranny on board the MMS Pinball Trainship.
- EPIC BOSS FIGHTS! (Simulated, of course, no Invaders were harmed during the making of this game)
- Pilot your ship to the top of the Galactic Leaderboards and get the highest insignias for your merit.
- Level up, unlock badges, increase your multipliers. Cool RPG/Pinball Mix
Cadet? Do you have the Pinball skills needed to captain the MMS Pinball Battleship and save humanity?! We are counting on you!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pinball Cadet is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th May 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Updating Game Engine.
Bug Fixing and Performance improvements.
Physics improvements.
Download & Availability
Pinball Cadet is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pinball Cadet on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Great combination of sci fi game and pinball. Very cool missions to complete and realistic physics. Why isnt this game more known? Great job folks.
This is a very well designed pinball game that the developers are offering basically for free. There are very few ads, but to be totally ad-free just buy it like a normal person. One-star reviews claiming they demand you watch videos are very unfair. Look forward to more games like this.
This is a Lotta fun you guys are just part of the closed beta for the Pinball Arcade monthly releases on steam and we never heard a whisper about this game this is a blast you guys.
DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING.
We purchased the no adds, extra ball feature for $5 but the app is not acknowledging the transaction. Developer please advise.
Why in the description does it say Boss Fight[S]. As far as we can tell, there is only that one Worm boss fight. Edit: Thank you for replying dev.
Pinball Cadet is a delightful Pinball game. Good visuals, AWESOME retro soundtrack, and responsive screen and flipper movement. The only thing holding it back is the slowdown or frame drop we experience from time to time. Some more areas to the ship would be nice as well :).
As a 44 year old, we grew up on pinball and still love to play. We just could not get into any of the pinball apps available on iTunes. That is until pinball cadet!! We tried em all. We really did. The longest a pinball app lasted on our iPhone was maybe 2/3 days. Been playing pinball cadet for a little over a week now and we dont see ourselves slowing down. We really love everything about it. Im trying to think of some helpful tips for the developers to improve the game. Im reaching here. This isnt a major issue but multi ball is a little hard to see, probably would be easier on an ipad but in our opinion, we think the camera should stay the same on multi ball just like it is when you have one ball. We understand that you cant see whats happening on top if its changed but we think it would still be better if it wasnt so zoomed out. Thats about it. If we can think of anything else, Ill be sure to come back and update our review. Bravo developers!! We cant wait for future updates. Lol we saw one review where someone wrote money whores. Are you Fn kidding us?! Its a free app dude! Have some patience and watch a video. Jeez. Dont get some people. We would happily pay 5 bucks for this game.
The game is so much better and tolerable now that you implemented some free games keep up the great work.
Nice graphics, fun. But is kinda glitchy and delayed at times. But overall its cool.
Farsight has done a great job in bringing classic pinball to the digital age. However we have now tried this on different platforms and it glitches out before we can even finish a ball. Please fix.
Would be a great game if we would acquire credits after time but they make you pay in order to play or watch ads not worth it.
We downloaded this game yesterday played it until we lost all the balls they give you so we figured good time to stop we'll log on later and be able to play with no problem…..Nope went to hit launch and it tells us if you want to play watch a add or give us real money we LAUGHED HARDER THAN we HAVE IN AWHILE AND HIT THE DELETE BUTTON.
Trick studio never made this game. Farsighted made it. It cuts off u cant even play it. IPad mini. Looks like farsighted cheap crap work. If u really made this pile of non working garbage. Go bankrupt now!!! Save yourselves from lawsuits later,like ur buddy.
This game is so weird, in a good way.
Already loving this game. The art and colors are fun and the 80's retro feel is right on point for the era of arcade. Our favorite part is that you have so many objectives to play so the game keeps you on edge.
First off we love pinball games. We especially love ones like this that mix it up and do things different. Let us discuss why we took off 2 stars before we get to all the great things about the game. We purchased both the no ads forever and the extra ball. This is a $7 investment. We do NOT like the fact that we have to watch ads for another ball or spend even more money for credits. The purpose of making purchases was to not have to watch ads and to make the game a more premium experience. If we had known we were going to have to watch more ads or spend more money to continue we wouldn't have spent ANY money. We really mean this. Please fix this devs for those of us who spent the money on your game. Also we need to be able to skip through the tutorial. Please fix this as well. You shouldn't force us to play through it. The game is really intense and fun. There is traditional bumpers but also hard smacking ones and Arkanoid type of sliding bars. It's really fantastic. There are lots of missions and things to do and achieve. The devs really worked hard on this one. We would absolutely recommend this one if it weren't for the issues we outlined. We will re rate if they are addressed. We also love the graphics, sounds, as well as the controls. They are done really well.
It crashes too much to even play.
Its too generic, needs the wow factor with old school pinball like Bride of PinBot type gameplay… Sorry Im not liking this game as of this moment. Hoping better table or revamp the whole thing with digital but keeping with launching of ball style old school and many other old school mechanics… Of course the digital side is boring too, needs more innovation with into the pinball type table, not just 2D to the top top top, more 3D and more bells and whistles… Our opinion.
You need to watch an ad before you play again.
They force you to either pay to remove ads or be forced to watch a video ad each time you want to play.
Need to buy coin with real money to play or watch ads so they can make money to earn coin to play.
As soon as we hit the ball once, it crashes! Tried again and again—same deal. DELETED!!!! IPad 4.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.4
- Size: 201.92 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: FarSight Studios
Last updated: 11th May 2018 | Genre: Casual | Developer: FarSight Studios