Ping Pong Fury: Table Tennis Reviews

I was a big fan of Yakuto’s offline table tennis game. This online version takes those excellent gameplay mechanics to an online setting but has some major issues. First off the paddle routinely stops tracking your finger in the middle of a point, this needs to be improved. You will also notice spin shots routinely being hit without the spin motion being performed which doesn’t really add up. My biggest complaint however is the matchmaking. Since getting this game a few weeks ago my opponents almost always have equipment 2, 3, 4 times better than mine. There’s clearly a “bag score” assigned to every player, why is this not used in matchmaking? The epic equipment from the higher arenas seems impossible to acquire so is this just blatant pay to play or a poorly designed matchmaking algorithm? Either way, a match isn’t fun if your opponent has every stat maxed out and you have basic gear, it all but removes the fun of an even, skill based matchup. Surely there must be other opponents out there who don’t have every epic piece of gear in the game. The upgrades are so ludicrously expensive that you’re just stuck with bad gear all but demanding you spend money to upgrade. I’ve unlocked all arenas but need so much money to even play the higher levels that even if I grinded enough to get there, good luck beating a maxed out player hitting physically impossible shots. FIX THE MATCHMAKING

I have been playing for a few weeks now and have had a lot of fun playing the game, i feel that the rewards mean something unlike in other games of this type, and it is very simple and easy to learn, while still being able to have ways that you can get better at it, it’s great that it has tutorials for more advanced moves and topics, which all help you advance your level of play, I currently play in the Sydney arena, but I do have all arenas unlocked and am approaching the legend league. Overall it’s a very easy game to learn, and a fun game to play when you have free time

EDIT: Patch spin please, I see my opponents doing straight swings and then the ball has more sidespin than a serve. It’s impossible to read when it will happen and usually results in a free point because the player didn’t have to try, they just hit a straight power shot, and it magically does a 90 degree turn. When this happens, it always goes to the right too. I can’t tell if my opponents just have maxed spin rubber, or if there is a glitch allowing players to put way too much spin, and overall, I hope the team patches it because it takes the fun out of playing because it just becomes a guessing game for when it will spin to much

Before playing this game my son was a sweet innocent child. But after downloading this game he began to become more aggressive. He began with tiny fits and murmurs to screams. These scream than became racial slurs. I had to take his phone away and ground him for 2 weeks. But I should have taken his phone earlier, as he cannot think of anything else but ping pong and racial slurs. Now I put my son up for adoption at 17 and half years old. Hopefully he can find help. Anyways, the game has an intuitive menu system. The graphic are good and colorful. The gameplay is easy to learn, but hard too master, making the game becoming more satisfying as you progress. The game can be won without payment, but takes forever to get upgrades, so the temptation to buy in game purchases is very high. All in all, fun addicting game that has a pay to win system just like any app game today, but can be avoided with self-respect and the grind mentality. I give it 7/10 IGN.

This game is very fun to play and got me hooked easily. Easy to learn, hard to master. I only have 3 complaints. It is so hard to get good equipment no matter if you’re in Las Vegas or London. I’ve had this game for 3 months and I haven’t gotten an epic paddle. Either make the higher level pods give epics easier or make the silver pods less common. I also think there should be a way to discard old pods from low arenas. My other complaint is a glitch. Sometimes when you miss a serve the ball will curveball under the table, when this happens the ball doesn’t respawn and you get locked and you can’t do anything. Also sometimes people will do a straight shot and the ball will bounce and do a hard 90 degree turn, always to the right. It is really hard to defend and it doesn’t make any sense. Beside these things the game is very fun and I will definitely stick with this game. 👍🏾

At first the game was pretty fun. Playing against people can be challenging. Occasionally you got prompts to watch an ad for bonuses. This was fine because you could choose not to. There were product placements in matches. Progressive and others on the billboards and backgrounds. No biggie, you gotta pay the bills and I respect that.

What I don’t respect is when you started forcing ads after matches. It didn’t happen until i got further in the game, but when it started it became really intrusive. Sometimes you win or lose really quickly, likely due to poor matchmaking, but immediately after you must watch an ad. Made me uninstall. Sometimes I only have time to play a few rounds, but when you force an ad, it really detracts from the time.

In short, if you don’t mind timers, battlepasses, optional ads, micro transactions, and forced ad breaks, you might like the game underneath. For me, the game is fun, but the time I spend wading through the other crap isn’t worth it to me.

When it comes to pure gameplay, this game is fantastic. It checks all the boxes. I’ve been at the top of Vegas for over a week now, and I’d be surprised if I wasn’t ranked on leaderboards for total money pulled in. My only qualm is that there aren’t any tournaments… and that’s probably because there are so many bots in this game. Seriously, where are all the real people?! It makes the game incredibly repetitive and I don’t feel any sense of competition anymore. The only times I’ve lost over the duration of the last week have been from game freezes (which appears to be a relatively common glitch that occurs when accidentally serving the ball underneath the table).

If they improve their matchmaking and social/friending system, add tournaments, and adjust the game to account for higher levels of competitiveness then I could see PingPongFury being a top mobile game.

I love this game I think it represents many of the key aspects about table tennis well, like the mind games, tactics etc... Although me being a table tennis player in real life is hard to overlook the fact that ball physics isn’t really accurate 😂 maybe there’s a game dev reason for that I understand.

My main issues at the time of this review is that there’s no way to add friends within the game other than facebook, I have found many good opponents that I would like to play again but I just couldn’t friend them.
Other on is that the CHOP is very inconsistent, most people don’t even use chop at all since it’s so hard to pull off, and even when it does work it’s not very effective most times, I would like to see chop spin being more powerful and accessible in the future.

This is the BEST GAME EVER I LOVE IT SO MUCH THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I love this game, there is no problems at all with this game and it’s not a bad game I love it so much and it’s free so I can play it for free and play it as a past-timer. I might play when there is no WiFi but I never done that and I think it might be a problem with world tour but overall I love it so much.

Written with so much happiness from your good friend-nw10
Truly yours, Noah W. Have a great rest of your day/night. Day: let lots of sunshine into your system. Night: always go to sleep on time so you are energized in the morning ready for what is waiting for you today. Good luck and thanks! 👍🏻👍🏻🤝🤝🙂🙂

There are a few reason why I think this game isn’t 5-star in my perspective, starting with, why is there almost no way to get gems as a free to play player, add some sort of daily challenges or logins so free to play players can get a little bit more gems.

Also, whenever I have max pods, the one pod it tries to replace is the only good one I have, not the 2 silver ones from arena 1 and 2, no, the gold one from arena 6, why is that, shouldn’t we be allowed to choose which pod we switch the new one out with, or Atleast not switch it to the worst possible option.

Another thing, why the lag, almost 1/3 of my games goes I hit the ball, the ball freezes then teleports on my side and I loose the point, over and over again the whole game. Idk if servers can fix that or not or if you need to not allow certain connection speeds or what.

And last but absolutely not least, can’t you guys put in some sort of teams aspect to it, like clans up to 50 people or something like that. Have rankings for clans based off of games won or money earned or challenges completed. And along with that, have us able to add random friends, instead of having to just go out and get other people to download PingPongFury to play with us.

Thank you for your time, I hope some of these changes can make it into the game.

This game is a lot of fun once you get the controls down. There is a flow to this game and the way you move your finger for spin control makes this game addicting. The physics and the control of your ball almost feels like real ping pong. Definitely worth a try. You can definitely play this game for free if you learn your spin and cut control. Of course you can buy a battle pass that is 5 bucks every two weeks. I wouldn’t spend a lot on this game, but the devs do deserve to get paid for this one.

Devs, if you could please just add more content with a team or club system. Please make tournaments. Please add more music, better adds or no adds 😆 more customization. This game is great but with a little more it could be fantastic!

Thank you

I love playing this game, but there’s some weird bugs occurring. When playing someone with a lower bag score, the ball seems to move more slowly, and my returns and serves which are very controlled all of a sudden are not controlled, often causing me to lose. Also at times the paddle will not track with my finger, and this occurs in similar “slow-moving” games. Recently this happened when I was just about to beat my previous win streak. I hate to say it, but sometimes I feel there is some rigging and PingPongFury intentionally causes this to make one lose. Please fix this. Also consider adding practice games against the AI, or even against live players, in the training section that don’t count against your record.

I’ve been playing this game for over a month now and really like it. My gripe is that if the game is so popular, why are there so many bots? I have to go through 90% bots before reaching a human opponent. Bots are predictable and consequently boring. You can tell bots simply by paying attention to their bag. I don’t understand why they try to make the bots look like Facebook accounts. They all have the same bag and the same name! Example, One Bot is Juan and you will come across Juan in every city. The other thing I don’t like is that once you get to Miami, the Bots have this very hard to defend spin. The only way I’m able to beat them is playing very docile, and timing returns. Still, you have to go through like 90% bots before reaching a human, and you really have to have the bots figured out past Miami if you have any chance of progressing due to the Bux needed to play. Good luck…

Great fun so far! One small issue I’ve noticed is shots to the back corners of the table. I had a few matches that the opponent ALWAYS hit to either my far back left or right corner, so far sideways I couldn’t get my paddle behind it to counter, and when I did it just hit it straight forward off the table with no directional control. So it felt like 7 cheap shots in a row. Seems like there’s a programming disadvantage somewhere, causing those shots to be non returnable. This opponent ALWAYS made sure to serve it sideways on purpose too, I could tell. So not sure what to make of that, cause I have lots of issues getting behind those shots to counter. Otherwise has been great fun! I even bought the Pass!

This game has so much to offer. Great game mechanics, competitive atmosphere, and plenty of ranks to grind up. On top of that the game isn’t pay to win and with a little grinding you can get top notch gear. However, the BIGGEST and MOST annoying thing about this game is the people with trash wifi. When they have trash wifi the game lags behind and it’s very hard to gauge where the ball is going especially in later stages where you have great gear. For example, if someone has incredible speed and curve on their hits it’s so hard to know where that hit is gonna land when the game lags out. What I mean is you can’t tell how they’re hitting it so you have an inhumanly small amount of time to react. PLEASE FIX THIS.

Fun game to play usually, but… Some opponents— not sure if they’re hacking or what— will serve super fast spins that are almost impossible to return AND they have a mechanism that screws with the timing of the ball. The ball travel will be choppy or slower than normal, which makes fast play almost impossible. Second, some shots don’t register properly. I recently played a game where the opponent tried to return the ball but hit the net, causing the ball to stay on their side, but the game gave the point to the opponent. It was a match point, which made it even more disenfranchising.

Addendum:
After the update, I played a few matches and saw that my paddle would lose tracking, causing it to freeze in place or move to the opposite side of the screen. I had to delete the game because games that don’t work properly are not fun to play.

I downloaded this game because I was bored, and I hade a really fun time playing it. It’s addicting, realistic, and just a really enjoyable game to play. The only problem I have is when you go into the game you start as a guest and have to find the login button once your in the game. I didn’t know about this until it was too late. I pressed log out on accident and I couldn’t log back in because I didn’t have an account that isn’t a guest account. So now all my progress is gone. I think it would be really helpful to have an option to either log in, create an account, or play as a guest when you first play the game. The game is very fun and I had lots of fun playing while it lasted.

Designed to annoy the player in order to get you to spend money on in-game currency and gems. Matchmaking is awful, you’re either getting destroyed by players who can serve the ball faster than you can manage to hit it on a return or the other player will constantly drop the ball when trying to server over and over. Players with high latency seem to have an overwhelming advantage over somebody with a good connection - the ball gets to them, the game freezes while showing a network symbol, and then the ball comes rocketing towards you, giving you no time to react because you can’t see the other player’s paddle movements. Overall the game is a cash grab and has no real way to progress without hours or even days of grinding and waiting for your pods to finlly unlock or forking over cash to get items and equipment.

I am really enthralled by this game, and I love to play it all the time. The one thing that is stopping me from playing it as much as I want is this game breaking bug. While serving, if you mess up your timing and hit the ball under the table, the game doesn’t reset and the ball never returns to serve again. The only thing to do in this situation is to forfeit. This is extremely frustrating when I am trying to gain funds to enter new arenas. Please fix this bug.

Gameplay is pretty fun but it eventually becomes like every other mobile game: either pay a significant amount up front to remain competitive or play for an ungodly amount of time to get the gear you need. The first 20-30 games are easy and you win nearly all of them. As soon as you unlock arena 4, all opponents have significantly better gear than you, even in the lower arenas.

The reason for this is you can’t get any of the good gear for free until arena 5. You realistically can’t unlock area 5 without good gear. They want you to drop a ton of money chasing gear so you can move on.

On my character, I went 28-0 and am 1-10 since then. There is just a sharp cutoff where they start only matching you with players/AI with the best gear.

Look, i love this game and table tennis, yet there are two major problems in the game… First of all, i keep playing these players that can put major spin on ghe ball thats almost impossible to return… I mean literally, the ball’s in coming ag me and randomly takes a 90 degree angle turn to the side, making it almost impossible to return… Second of all, i found a HUGE ISSUE… so if you are losing very badly and you think there is no chance… you can literally turn off your wifi and all your bux are refunded! Meaning its impossible to lose if you know this! Yall need to work on those two problems asap or this game is going to remain medocre…

I enjoyed this game tremendously but noticed that a lot of the players play the same exact way..
I then noticed that some of the players I play against which never talk or agree to a rematch actually play on the lower leagues .. the funny thing is that the skilled player I play against in NY (higher arena), turns into an absolute beginner in Berlin (lower arena) .. given all of that I am led to believe I was playing against bots 90% of the time ..
They should at least be transparent about it and designate them as such instead of using pictures like they used Facebook accounts to sign up..

I thought this would have been a nice relaxing game for my grandpa for his iPad. Soon to figure out he was gettin Vietnam flashbacks and was yelling at the game. Enough to where he was sent into a 2 year comp where he woke up playin this game again. We found him the other day playing it naked in his bed. Once again starting to yell again but worse but we cannot take it away because he has no clothes. We had enough and sent him to the local retirement home.

I downloaded PingPongFury as a fun game to play with my partner. I began playing against other people and performed really well, I kept winning and losing (but mostly winning) until i had about 200k stacked up. Things took a MAJOR turn against me at this point. I was placed against people who were much above my rank… that’s not a huge issue until you lose x amount of money and can’t play in certain arenas. I’m then demoted to playing for less money which is also fine, but the players are still MUCH higher rank than me. Two days in a row i would play somebody in a stage 6 arena (get dominated) and have to play in a stage 4 arena… just to match up against the same “person”. They want us to believe there’s some likelihood that the person who just took my money decided to play for significantly less money and match up against me there as well. Key notes: - when you start to make progression, you get set back by either AI or maybe employees? idk - They target you based on how well you play - they want you to win, lose, win, lose and over invest your time to the point you feel it necessary to PAY for certain items that give you a major advantage. GG ping pong fury. I really enjoyed your game, you have a very smart strategy to get people to spend money on this game but I won’t be one of those people. Cya

OK first of all you get ads every like 10 minutes of playing and it competitively over and over again until you’re just getting ads every single game you play now, including that the match ranking is all off you go against people that spent money compared to you and have advantages over you and your gameplay and then everybody who plays it is really cocky and just spams emotes“” the real players are actually toxic” and then, as soon as you run out of money, there’s really no point of playing because anytime you trying to make it back up you go against paying and get destroyed and lose all your money and restart came from and do it over and over again
This game is a waste your time and that you should not play this at all and then the total scam of your money and that the spam you with ads every 24 seconds

The gameplay itself very good but as I got better, the matchmaking suddenly shifted and now the game feels pay to win. It felt almost too easy until around arena 7. From this point, I have not seen a single player with worse gear than me. Most players I face have all maxed out gear while I have more basic gear from around arena 3. It doesn’t make sense because often times players who are ranked lower than me still have better gear. Even when I play in arena 1 people have better gear than me making the game feel much less skillful. Matchmaking should be based on bag score to make games fair. I think most of the players are real as many of them are toxic. I have also encountered a bug that prevents switching between paddles. This has caused me to enter games with the wrong paddle. Overall the game is very good but does not feel fun anymore due to the flawed matchmaking.

During my play through of this game, i noticed that when you get past NYC you start seeing players that have items that shouldn’t even be possible to have at their rank. Im starting to think that they are just bots because I'm noticing every player plays the exact same. Its extremely unfair especially when all they’re equipment is just maxed out for absolutely no reason. They’re should be other players out there to play the game. So why add an extreme amount of bots with the same equipment? You can just add more equipment, remove the bots, and balance things out more.

(Short version: Bots have equipment that are impossible to have at they’re rank and the game is supposed to be online.)

Can you please try and make the game more fair and with actual players? Rather than just put bots that look like they cane out from the alien 70’s? It really turns me on.

When I started this game I kept getting real players but when I stepped into New York City I saw the same player named Sarah over and over again. She had a real picture in her pfp and she had decals, and probably the ping pong pass, and there is now way that a living person would put a picture of themselves in a video game. I kept losing to Sarah because she had unbelievable spin and agility, and everytime she would ask me for a rematch. Anyway I assumed that it was an AI, and I was correct because when I played in London I saw the same player Sarah with the same picture, but she was a rank down? U can’t derank in this game. So definitely the game has an AI system with unbelievable gear in disguise, that makes u lose ur money, and they wish for you to pay for better equipment, or just to play. Ping Pong fury nice try but I ain’t gonna play even if I’m at 0 dollars don’t worry I’ll find a way.
Edit - I deleted the game because I kept seeing the same players match up against me in lower and higher areas. Man ping pong fury defeated me, but still not paying.

This is top tier stuff. I’ve been playing for a couple of months now and I’m hooked, for real. I wasn’t even in to table tennis and now I’m considering buying a real life table and paddles to play with. The other players you go up against you can just tell are genuine people and not bots, you can make your way up the ranks with a reasonable balance of challenge and fun, it doesn’t spam you with advertisements at all. My only complaint is that getting cash is a little bit of a grind, you definitely earn considerably less than the average cost of upgrades for your gear - but besides that, this is a really good game. It’s high quality and I highly recommend it!