Gorse Roll

Marble platforming

Gorse Roll is a PC marble game about rolling through floating obstacle courses. You control the marble with a mouse, gamepad or keyboard, building speed and choosing your line before ramps, springboards and bouncers. There’s no jump button, and once the marble leaves the floor, you can’t steer it. Too little speed can leave you short; too much can send you past the landing.

The courses cross stone, ice, mirrors and belts above places including a rainforest in morning mist, sea ice, clouds and lava. The game uses ray tracing on your PC’s cores rather than requiring a ray-tracing graphics card. Its glass marble bends the checkerboard beneath it, casts a small rainbow on the floor and appears in mirrors.