

Pinball FX
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01About Pinball FX
Pinball FX brings digital pinball to tables inspired by major entertainment brands alongside original creations from Zen. Chase high scores on each machine, hone your pinball skills on the free tables, and unlock collectibles to customize a 3D playroom. The Steam PC version supports single-player and multiplayer. Its interface is available in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. The player rating is 72% from 2,864 reviews.
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$0.002023-08-12 · Epic Game StoreBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| English | Yes | — | Yes |
| French | Yes | — | — |
| Italian | Yes | — | — |
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-11-12
02Before you buy
Free tables
Three tables—Wild West Rampage, Fish Tales, and Sorcerer's Lair—are free for unlimited play. A complimentary one-day Play Pass provides access to most tables.
Modes and controls
The Steam PC version supports single-player, multiplayer, and full controller support.
Language
Interface languages are English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. English has full audio.
03Frequently asked questions
Which tables can I play for free?
Wild West Rampage, Fish Tales, and Sorcerer's Lair are available for unlimited free play.
What kinds of tables are included?
The description includes more than 100 tables from Zen's digital library, including recreations of Williams machines and original creations.
Can I customize a playroom?
Yes. Collectibles unlocked through play can be used to customize a 3D playroom.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
Preface: I have over 2000 hours on Pinball FX2 and FX3, combined, and I have another 1600 on Pinball Arcade. Safe to say, I've a fair bit of experience on my belt not just by playing these games, but in bug-hunting as well. I can also say that I've received codes from Zen in the past, and I've purchased their products since the beginning of FX2 here on Steam, so I've played a lot more for my money's worth. This review is not a flat, outright, "Yes" or "No" recommendation. There are obvious flaws in this game, and unfortunately so given the state of some tables. I want to write with as much of a genuine take on this as possible. Right now, I give this a solid 7/10. Not as great as FX3, still needs work, but has a lot of potential with the new engine. Is Pinball FX better now than what it was last year? A definite yes. My build is borderline minimum, running a GTX 970 and an i7-6700k processor. Pinball FX runs very well on my system, much more so than how it was during Early Access. Tables like World War Z and E.T. were absolutely horrendous. I've seen many improvements, and it'll get better as they optimize for Steam Deck, Cabinet Mode, and the eventual Switch release. Is FX better graphically? Personally, yes, but the first several Williams Volumes are up for debate. FX3's graphics already look great as they are, and a step up from FX2. Repurchasing on looks alone is already a tough sell. You'll really need a keen eye to tell the differences. Is FX better physics-wise? Yes and no. No, because Williams already uses the new physics found in Classic Single Player, so that's already the baseline. Yes, because in originals like Infinity Gauntlet, I can feel the difference in the interactions. What I can do in Williams tables with specific flipper tricks, I couldn't do in FX3's originals, but can now do in FX. Both FX2 and FX3 use the same engine, and some of the physics changes between the two intertwine using the same model. Pinball FX's new physics model is a complete revamp; the older originals need retuned, and we have a different ball game. Know that there are some issues that need ironed out in recent remasters like Sorcerer's Lair and Fish Tales, and the list of remasters yet to be done from FX3 isn't as large as before. Who knows; we might end up seeing some returning from FX2. Is it worth repurchasing all tables immediately? Not necessarily. People have different budgets, and I did not start out with a complete collection of FX2 tables right away. That said, how much a table is worth is entirely up to you. The "no backwards compatibility" take is quite the sting to the wallet, especially with new tables coming out at $5-10 per table, and Indy being $15. Discount details below. I feel for the people outside of the US who suffered from the pricing increase. As a US player, I'm not personally affected, but for people in other areas like Europe and Brazil, definitely. I highly encourage those seeking repurchases, and likewise, those not wanting to pay as much for new tables like Twilight Zone, to wait for discounts. I've observed the FX3/FX bundles Zen put out to lessen the pain of repurchases, and 50% is the base discount for FX3 owners of any given pack. Oddly enough, this includes Indy. This discount STACKS multiplicatively with those that take place during any given sale -- take the traditional Summer or Winter Sale, as an example. Time will tell what will happen when the first discounts roll around on Steam; therefore, watch. Bug fixes: I checked back in SteamDB regarding FX2 and FX3. We never got many patches or fixes between the two games, and I wonder if their previous engine had something to do with that. For those who are not aware, I maintain an unofficial Master List of issues, with the vast majority of them reported towards the Williams tables. A good majority of issues on the Williams tables in FX3 are now resolved in FX, but there are still plenty of bugs, especially game-breakers, that desperately need fixed. I've seen a faster rate of fixes here compared to the previous engine. With the Switch release coming up in July, I imagine more fixes are headed our way between now and then, now that most of the remastered titles are out there. There will be plenty more fixes even after that, and I want Zen to communicate as much about this topic as possible. Censorship on Williams: Completely GONE. Zen got in trouble with the ESRB for Infinite Minigolf on Switch, and they can't afford to make that mistake twice putting things in that might bump up FX3 age ratings. This even includes a censorship toggle, which we got here on Steam. We wouldn't see games like Dracula, Jack*Bot, or anything else that might have warranted a bump in the ratings. Purely on consoles, and much rather make the leap now than have repurchases sting more later on in FX3's life. FX3, to me, felt a lot more like what we've seen previously in FX2. Overall, the same game, but with additional challenges, powers, "matchup", custom tournaments, and new physics on Williams. Zen Pinball 2 on Mac is further proof from what I've seen on some videos. While FX seems a lot like a rehash of what FX3 has to offer, this is only the beginning. Is Pinball FX a terrible game? No. Is it top of the charts, year 1? No, given the state of the game as of writing. I remember how FX3 was during the first few months of launch, and reviews weren't as pretty there, either. Will it get better over time? Absolutely. Again, I tell you: Watch. Zen is in this for the long haul.Show moreShow less
Step 1: Abandon your product, grab a bag of Epic money and make your existing playerbase wait 12 months for the privilege to pay for the same tables again. Step 2: Release on Steam, with everything costing MORE than it cost on Epic, for the same products. Step 3: Advertise all your reused assets as "remastered tables", even though they look the exact same and use the exact same assets, and the same dull lighting and the same camera angles. Step 4: Profit, because you don't care what fools buy on Steam anyway, you already have a bag full of Epic games millions. Bonus footage of the marvelous, polished and very very bug-free experience of playing Fish Tales on the new PinballFX engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1UlKDhNFlMShow moreShow less
Paying a hundred quid for the tables I already own? 내가 이미 가지고 있는 테이블에 100파운드를 써야되? No. Stick it up yer bollix. 안 돼. 볼릭스를 붙여줘.Show moreShow less
TL;DR: DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! They've given the fan base the middle finger with their greed. I've been playing Pinball FX since the very first game, and I have to say I'm utterly disgusted by this entry. Zen Studios has long allowed your tables to migrate to the new version of the game, but they didn't do that with this one. Even worse, they've apparently jumped on the same subscription-service bandwagon that's ruining everything else on the planet. This is entry in the series is just a giant middle-finger to the fan base. In short - DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME, DO NOT REWARD THE DEVS FOR A GREEDY CASH GRAB!Show moreShow less
Expect a lot of reviews related to the pricing model, some justified. If you can get past that, you have a really solid, state-of-the-art pinball game that's a meaningful upgrade from FX3. After 100+ hours in FX on Epic and 100+ hours in FX3 on a lot of the same tables, the new FX is my go-to platform and the one I see myself playing long into the future. The difference is all in the physics. There's some visual upgrades for sure - which are actually a mixed bag at the moment, because while the game looks great, it's wildly unoptimized - but what's important in pinball is how it /feels/, and FX feels fantastic. To compare the two, FX3 is fun and springy, easy and arcadey, while FX, to me, feels like far more like playing real pinball. It's more challenging and realistic, more unpredictable, faster and less forgiving. The default competitive mode is "Classic", which allows you to play for scores and excludes the powerups that were a necessity in the default mode of FX3 if you wanted to top the leaderboards. If you're still after the powerups, you can find them in "Arcade" mode, but "Classic" feels great in my hands, and if you want a challenge even above that, there's "Pro" mode on each of the Williams tables with a steeper playfield and tougher rules. This game is imperfect, and a work in progress (please add proper Ultrawide support!), but it doesn't deserve to be drowned out in negative reviews. I'll update this with some more detailed thoughts, but if you're any sort of a pinball fan at all, ignore the hubbub and give FX a look. You'll be glad you did.Show moreShow less
This could have been an easy win. A new version with a ton of new tables, The fans of PInball FX 3 would have ushered in a new era of pinball and everyone would be happy to play PInball. Zen Studios are usually on the top of their game when it comes to pinball, while a little more arcade like physics that only enhances the experience, and produces a better game. But this has been mishandled. First this was released first on Epic. That wouldn't be so bad, Epic helped make this, sure it gets first dibs on it. But for a year, PInball FX 3 has languished with almost no content outside of a few tables, while this got updated. Well eventually it would come to steam, great. Now it arrives and people who have supported Zen since Pinball FX2, over ten years get.... a day of free pinball, and the ability to buy ALL the tables again. Literally every table you owned on Pinball FX3 is not honored here, and they want you to buy them again. The SAME table that you already owned need to be repurchased at the same price if you want to move it here. But let's give Zen a chance to respond here. "But don't worry we'll give you those games for half price if you own them already*" Ehh not great, but... sounds ok. WAit what's the asterisk there mean? "Well we can't just give you a deal on the tables, that's not fair." Sounds fair to me, but ok how does this work." "You get them at half price if there's a bundle offered, but not every game will have a bundle" Wait what? "And the bundles aren't on the main page but hey, it's half price." But that's still half as much as I already spent... and buying those tables at full price the first time was hefty, you have 380 dollars of DLC even at half price that's 190 dollars. "I know isn't it great!!!! You can pay us even more." Yeah, I don't know about that. "Well don't worry we have a new pinball pass"... Ok, what's that? "It's a way to play all the tables for free*" ... what's that little asterisk there... "Oh well it's not all the tables... just some of the tables. But that's great".... Uhhhh ok, this doesn't sound great, but it says in game currency, so you can earn your way to play the tables? "Nope!" Well ok, how much is it? "15 bucks a month!" Wait what? that's a price of a brand new set of tables.. "Maybe you want to do a year long subscription." Maybe..... " 100 dollars..." That's too much "You're right! 99.99 dollars" Seriously you guys.... "Yup but this way you don't get to keep it..." That's not a good deal then . "What do you mean? OH and better news you can purchase in game currency in different amounts to help confuse you so you might spend more or feel the need to keep buying them." Wait that's ALSO not a good thing. "Of course it is.. it means you spend more money and own nothing. It's a great thing for us." Ugh well tell me what else you have. "What do you think about... Events that don't feel like they have a strong purpose.." Well what's the point of them. "You can earn Collectibles from our season mode. You get progressive items over time." Uhhh that's just a battle pass. "YEah but you don't have to pay for it." Well that's good. "You just have to pay for the tables to earn the tokens." Ugh.. . "And since it's timed content, we get FOMO to keep you playing." Seriously... what.... "And FOMOmeans you pay more and play more, but not the modes you like the modes we select." Please stop talking. "Don't worry the collectables are cosmetic, they don't affect anything, they're just so you can decorate the starting room, you know the place you never really look." You're not helping yourself. "Wait we got one more thing I'm sure you're going to love." I don't know why I'm doing this to myself, but sure, let's give it one more shot... "PREMIUM COLLECTIBLES ONLY PURCHASABLE BY IN-GAME CURRENCY!" .... "You there... you there buddy?" Let's summarize this... You need to repurchase the tables you already own, the discount is only 50 percent off and that's ONLY if they choose to offer it, There's FOMO mechanics to keep you playing, if you don't own a table, you're just grinding the three free tables if they offer it. Same problem with tournaments if you don't own the table. A Pinball pass which is just pure greed, a premium collectibles, in game currency made to be confusing, and this game was released on Epic first for a year And yet this STILL might have worked, but here's the sad truth, the tables feel almost exactly the same as they did on Pinball FX3, so there's no way I can recommend this game in good conscious. Even if you don't own Pinball FX 3, you might think you can just start collecting tables here... But what happens when they decide to make another sequel and all your purchases go away yet again. The bad news is the studio I respected and felt dealt with their fans honorably is now gone. But the good news is I don't have to sit here and be reminded of how far they've fallen every time I boot up their game. I'm sorry Zen Studios there's too much here that makes me distrust you. Pinball pass, Season mode... I'm off to get my pinball fix elsewhere.Show moreShow less
Yes, I understand Zen Studios did you dirty for not transferring your old tables to PFX and you're voting with your wallet to not support PFX. I myself was on the same boat as you and I'm not telling you how to spend your hard earned money. I bought Williams vol 1 to 6 legacy bundle for a 83% discount during Autumn Sale, why? I played the free tables and daily Events (2 new tables cycle every week) to check out new tables and making comparison from PFX3. From Early Access at EGS, the physics was terrible and even after 12 months of timed exclusive, the Steam release game play was still poor but after the recent updates I thought it was worth to repurchase Williams tables (only). I'm skipping all original tables, from my experience with PFX3 most tables obscured my view of play from the cluttered animations I can't turn off and there are times I have no idea where ball trajectory is going and always hitting the stopgap. After playing for almost 10 hours mostly with Events tables I can say the ball physics is real good. I can perform most basic to advance flipper techniques with PFX that PFX3 can't do. There are still bugs/glitches but I'm sure it will be ironed out in the near future. You can't make a final judgement playing a 2 minutes Free Trials tables and say "I can't tell the difference with PFX3'. It may look the same but game play wise is the most important aspect. And one final note; don't buy single table, buy bundle instead for deeper discount. I bought Williams vol 7 but its not listed on the page, you have to click on one of the newer Williams table to see the bundle. Vol 8 isn't listed at all but I'll buy that when its a bundle for the next Steam Sale.Show moreShow less
Whoever has managed to ruin Pinball FX should be held accountable. FX2 was great, FX3 was even better, and now Pinball FX(4)ruins it all. Because of a new physics engine we need to rebuy all the tables we've already bought? That's bad, but what's worse is the monetization of the game, how do you even begin to justify it? They want to basically put a subscription model or have you pay with quarters again instead of just owning the tables flat out. I wish this dev team and esp whoever came up with the monetization nothing but failure. Only 100 dollars for 1200 coins, what a DEAL! 0/10Show moreShow less
Most of my review for FX3 still applies to this new version, I like how zen does pinball https://steamcommunity.com/id/Breeze42/recommended/442120/ At the time of writing there are already 26 tables that are not available in fx3, I absolutely recommend buying at least those 26, & any subsequent new releases, this is currently the best, active pinball sim available, no pinball collection is complete without it. Many of the negative reviews are part of a trolling campaign, rather than honest assessment of the game itself. The performance of the new engine badly needs further optimisation, it is currently very taxing on the system, for what is a significant, but not huge, improvement in visual fidelity (43" 4k screen in portrait/pinball mode), if you're using a smaller screen in landscape, you may struggle to notice much visual improvement over pfx3. For most people, I don't think that improvement on its own is enough to warrant buying tables that you already own, but I like to support the few pinball sims that are available, so for that reason, I will, over time, be buying them all. If you are looking at buying some tables that you already own in fx3, just be sure to choose the "legacy bundle" option, for a 50% discount, & keep an eye out for the regular sales for a bigger discount. Edit: I have completed my collection using that strategy & paid on average $1 (USD) per table, a fair & reasonable deal. As for my experience with graphics settings, after a year of tweaking here & there to arrive at what works best for my system, I have maxed my settings out as I normally would, which results in some flipper lag, then adjusted the "Render scale" setting down until lag is eliminated. For most of the beta I didn't achieve better than 70%, currently my default is 90%, most tables most of the time are fine at 100%, but sometimes, during busy multiballs, I have detected a little lag, making 90% a safe default, hopefully they will continue to improve it further. No matter what I try, I cannot use ray tracing without also having flipper lag, even lowering other graphics settings way down does not eliminate that lag, the only option is to leave it turned off. Currently I only play bought tables in classic mode, so this review does not cover the various game modes, pinball pass, etc. CYA on the leaderboards :) EDIT July '23: A recent update seems to have solved "most" of my performance issues, I'm now on max settings + ray tracing, working great, looking great, & without noticeable lag. still very taxing on the system though, even just idling in the menu will have the fans busy, that's annoying :| EDIT Nov '23: Having just upgraded to current gen hardware (i5-13400F, rtx 4070) I no longer have any performance issues, even running a 43" 4k 120hz screen in portrait/pinball mode. It's performing beautifully at max settings inc. ray tracing, temps are staying low, fans remain quiet, very cool 8)Show moreShow less
Horrible cash grab. Years spent and $pent buying licenses for many dozens (dang near 100) tables. Marvel, William, Alien, Jurasic park, and on and on....now they want me to PAY AGAIN for licensed tables I've already paid hundreds of dollars for. - Feels like a real scummy move $400.00 to play mostly tables I've already paid THIS COMPANY for...no thank you.Show moreShow less
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