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Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon – Action Game Review
Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon is a Action/Adventure/Entertainment game from Explore and Create Limited, first launched in 31st January 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 18+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon Stand Out
Sir Benfro’s Big Adventure picture book by Emmy Award winning writer and producer of The Simpsons & Futurama Josh Weinstein and creator of Sir Benfro Tim Fishlock is available to buy now!
Visit the Benfro store at sirbenfro.bigcartel.com
Selected by Apple in the App Store Best of 2012
'An inventive, hypnotic diversion.' – Top Game: The Sunday Times
'It's not often a game is released that can truly claim to be art, but Sir Benfro's Brilliant Balloon deserves the title' – The Observer
'I can't get over how good the music and graphics are…a delightful experience.' – Touch Arcade
'Utterly unique' – App of the Day, Gizmodo
'A sweet-hearted, lyrical distraction where the journey is its own reward' – App of the Day, Eurogamer
'One of the most visually original and beautiful games I have ever seen, on any platform.' – VGChartz
Guide Sir Benfro and his brilliant balloon through fantastical new worlds filled with weird and wonderful creatures.
As a naturalist, scientist and explorer, Sir Benfro has made some of the most important discoveries of his generation. Without him we would have no idea that instead of laying eggs, the female Stingomp knits her offspring from the laces of old pairs of sneakers.
Fly Sir Benfro through beautiful new lands. Float into forests, across oceans and down into the centre of the Earth. But take care! You’re never far from bumping into the next bizarre beast.
Magical fireflies power Sir Benfro’s balloon. Fly as fast as you can to keep collecting the fireflies and reach the end of each adventure.
- A one touch game control that’s easy to pick up.
- 4 adventures: Yellow Leaves, Forest, Islands and Underground.
- Learn more about the creatures you’ve discovered in the Spotter’s Guide.
- A game for all ages. Three difficulty settings: Beginner, Brilliant and Bonkers.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st November 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Updates for iOS 9.
Download & Availability
Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon 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:
This is one of our favorite games. It is so soothing and interesting and the same time. It transports us to another world.
We're surprised that more people haven't rated this. This game is absolutely gorgeous and fun with amazing visuals. The art style is fantastic and unique, coupled with the game's simple yet challenging mechanics make for a wonderful time.
We love this game. The graphics are beautiful. The price is unbeatable. The lack of In app purchases is refreshing, and as we said it's beautiful. We love that it's free, but we would definitely be willing to pay for it. We're just sad that these devs haven't made other games.
The artwork reminds us of Machinarium.
It has a good art style an no bugs that we have seen but it got repetitive very quick just play it for 3 days good and got bored.
The artwork is amazing! The game is pretty cool as well 10/10 would recommend.
This is such a carefully designed game with beautiful graphs and music. We wish each section is shorter and there would be a lot more sections.
This game Is so exciting, but calm and not too crazy, it has unusual creatures that you'd never see in a normal game. We love it. No glitches either.
This is such a lovely, relaxing game. The graphics are beautiful.
Brilliant piece of art for a buck? Wow. It's our lucky day. Beautiful graphics and great gameplay. We're impressed.
This game is one if the best games in AppStore.
This game is everything on the app store, stripped down to the bare bones and then made exceptionally beautiful.
Must play with headphones the music is so lovely! A relaxing yet challenging game.
It's a really great game. The mechanics are hardly original but the level designs and art make it stunning and absolutely worth a purchase.
Love the music and graphics. Very well done, simple but challenging. Again, LOVE the graphics. Keep adding more levels… Addicting and adorable. :).
We just started playing and we love it. The animation is beautiful and it is a very smooth game. There are no ads, just a simple game. This is what a game is all about.
This is a beautiful little game. We think it's one of the most artistic, creative game apps we've ever seen.
Update… We played this game when it first came out, after awhile we deleted it simply to clear space on our iPhone. As we were checking for upgrades this morning we ran across this gem of a game once again and decided to give it another whirl. We decided to change our initial rating of 4 stars to a 5 because the worst that can be said of this game is that it's too short and we'd like to see more! LoL we have yet to find anything in the app store as unique, trippy… Or even "artsy." we absolutely love the graphics and the music in this game.. Wow! This game is more of an art piece than an actual game to us at this point, hopefully the Dev's will add more levels to this very short game and perhaps make it a tad more challenging as well…. Unless this game was intended for children in which case we'd have to say it's really good. As an adult though, we'd have to say that it feels as if the game isn't finished? Even as brilliant as the art work may be in this game it tends to get old really fast with the content being as short as it is. That being said, we still have to give this a four star rating for it's unique qualities. :-).
It is really awesome and soooo cute.
We can't take our eyes off this game.
Very graphically neat, fun to play and look at.
This is one of those apps where you know the developers weren't the only ones working one it. There were some very creative people involved in the artwork. The levels and sounds are nothing short of stunning. Beautiful.
Sets the standard for art in apps. Love it.
It amazes us the fertile imagination that makes a game like this. Beautiful graphics, deceptively simple but challenging. Fun game, Glad we have it.
One of the greatest games ever! It's unique UI along with the best music takes us away to dream-like fantasieskeep coming mr.benfro.
Elegant, groovy and approachable. If you dig design that magically surrounds playability, this is your space.
No points, hacked leader boards, over-priced micro-transactions, compulsory achievements, or mindless social integration. In place of all that? A simple, fun, creative, expressive journey that allows us to step in and call it a game. Bravo.
One the most artistic and fun games we have played in years.
A hidden gem of an game, the best art and music of any app we've seen yet. We'd recommend this game to any iPad user.
We love this game it's adorable and fun. No ads to interrupt the game. It's a bit challenging but in a good way:) good way to pass time.
It's definitely different in a good way. It is easy to play with just the right amount of difficulty. We can't explain why but its quite entertaining. We would recommend you download it and try it.
No nonsense, straightforward exploration.
This game has a fantastic artistic expression deeply whimsical and super fun! It's major good times.
So clever, and somehow both simple and challenging. The soundtrack is great, too.
This is a very beautiful and superb game.we have never been so impressed by exploring games.Gameplay is fantastic but actually what impressed the most is its music.we really liked the music.So therefore 5 stars.Excellent work.
Very simple game and stunning graphics. Very few levels but each level is difficult enough it makes up for it. Great game.
Nice work. Creative. Great art, design and music.
Probably one of the most easy yet different games we've ever played! The gameplay is fun and the art is really neat- it reminds us of The Beatles Yellow Submarine!! It's so cool please keep updating this or making more levels we can't stop playing.
It is a awesome, adorable, cute, and very funny game. We love it.
Great for a short train commute.
Adorable whimsical imaginative with and awesome soundtrack playing it makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Soooo fun, and a treat to look at. Not too many levels :( Waiting for an upgrade.
Very simple gameplay. The main attraction is the gorgeous artistic graphics. Good job.
Short. No replay value. Worth a buck? Yeah we'd say so..but you don't know us so why listen to us. But seriously, get it….or not.
Interesting style, love no IAP, but a little tedious after a couple levels.
Awsome game but this game is not endless game.. Too short.
Don't really understand the rave reviews. The artistry is great, but the game is just … Meh. Levels are all the same, just look a little different. If we could, we would ask for our money back.
We guess we just don't get it. It is nothing but an obstacle course. The graphics aren't that great and neither is the music. The game play is repetitious and simple and the game is short. The description misleads you to believe that you will actually do some exploring but that is not the case. Barely worth what we paid for it. Seeing all five star ratings and rave reviews makes us wonder just who is writing them,the programmers perhaps?update. Why is our review gone.
The game shuts down every time we start to play!!! This shouldn't be a problem as we have an iPhone 6plus 128g, so maybe needs to be updated? Please fix.
There here's your comment, now stop askin us to rete this gay game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.12
- Size: 159.87 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Explore and Create Limited]()
Last updated: 1st November 2015 | Genre: Action, Adventure | Developer: Explore and Create Limited