Rollers of the Realm

Rollers of the Realm is a new RPG by way of pinball game from Phantom Compass, and published by Atlus Games. Each party member (you collect them as you go through the storyline) has its own unique abilities (rogue, healer, knight, dog, etc.) and you can buy upgrades for them (armor, weapons, spells, etc.) as you gain gold. The layouts of the tables have optional quests, should you choose to do them) and you absolutely need to pay attention to some of the flipper setups in order to get your characters into some hard to reach places. So far it's really fun, and the trades off between keyboard and controller on the fly - which brings me to the next part: You'll want to play this with a keyboard. Things like finessing the ball (the K and S keys) and swapping characters (the space bar) are not automatically mapped to a controller (in this case, a basic X360 controller). But that little thing shouldn't deter you from picking it up. Yeah, a lot of people are probably going to nitpick on the voice acting (it's not Oscar material by any means, but it's also not venturing into Baten Kaitos or Arc Rise Fantasia territory, either), but for the concept of of an RPG played out via pinball, it's definitely worth picking up.

Rollers of the Realm is available on Steam.