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Thorn And Balloons

Bounce and pop balloons

Ratings

Age

13+

Category

Casual

Languages

English

Thorn and Balloons is an engaging casual game that combines physics and strategy. Players control the strength and angle of a launch to fire a thorn ball into a field of balloons. The ball bounces off walls and falls under the influence of gravity, requiring you to plan your shots to pop all targets to win. Featuring 'big brain hole' levels that challenge your spatial awareness and an abstract graphic style, it offers a relaxed yet mentally stimulating experience that is completely free to play.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

72/100

Thorn and Balloons is a physics-based puzzle game that feels like a modern take on 'Peggle' mixed with 'Angry Birds.' The gameplay revolves around launching a spiked ball at just the right angle and power to pop all the balloons on the screen. The 'rebound' mechanic is where the strategy lies; you often have to bounce the ball off multiple walls or around obstacles to reach tucked-away balloons. It’s highly satisfying to see a single launch trigger a chain reaction that clears the board.

The game features what it calls 'big brain hole' levels, which essentially means the solutions are often abstract and require a bit of creative thinking. The physics feel consistent, and the abstract graphics give it a clean, uncluttered look. It’s completely free to play, and while it starts simple, the later challenge levels introduce gravity-defying layouts that will definitely test your spatial reasoning. It’s a great, low-stress game for killing time and keeping your brain active.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

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Creative physics-based puzzle levels

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Intuitive swipe-to-launch controls

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Abstract and clean graphic design

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Challenging 'big brain hole' layouts

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Completely free to play physics experience

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

Press and hold the screen, then swipe back to control power and diagonally to control the angle before letting go to launch.

Ratings & Reviews

Hint and memory don’t help beating levels
Fri Aug 11 2023 fnxhkf kghriyahk

As the levels go on they get hard, and I like a challenge but when a level is to hard I just can’t play on. Using the hint doesn’t help since the line never even line up with the balls path. And memory doesn’t help since you only get to see where the ball was launched from not the path it took. You should really make it so they are swapped. Memory should show the line that the ball took, and hint should show where the ball should be launched to be the level. Besides that really fun game!

Too many ads. Powerups not useful.
Fri Apr 11 2025 Dekks11347

To start, there are WAY too many ads. I lost on one of the levels like 10 times, and watched FOUR ADS because of it. The powerups aren’t useful in this game AT ALL. The magnet basically only attracts the balloons through walls, which won’t pop them. The memory one is just not useful. Just use your brain, plus, if you lost your old throw wouldn’t be too helpful. The hint DOESN’T EVEN WORK. You could line it up perfectly with the hint and you STILL LOSE. Waste of time. Theres also none of the “the further you get, the harder in gets” type gameplay. Level 30 is easier than level one. Not to mention it shoving pop ups in my face EVERY SINGLE TIME I BEAT A LEVEL trying to get me to spend money for- woah! 5,000 cash! Just let me play the game. Would not recommend, just play something else instead

Just no
Sat Jun 01 2024 L1qqy

First off, the hint pulls up some line but it doesn't match up so when you do the EXACT point of the line, it never works out. Second of all the hint to the position of the ball just shows where it was last time and doesn't really do anything in your favor. Also every time you click on the power up to get another one, it pulls up a 30 or 60 second ad!!! One more thing to fix this game, would to get rid of most of the ads. Every time you die, or restart like 5-8 times, it shows a FRICKEN AD!!! This is with all levels too. Last thing, as you progress in the game it gets harder right? Ya, but it this case it gets hard REALLY quick. Then at some point in time they will just throw in a really easy level or a really hard level. That's it, please creators of this game, fix. Your. Stupid. Game.

Game Is Really Good And Would Be Amazing If You Removed Ads 🚡
Wed May 28 2025 Frenchfrymillion

I really enjoy the gameplay and concept of Thorn and Balloons — it’s a fun and challenging puzzle game. However, the number of ads is overwhelming and really interrupts the experience. It feels like there’s an ad after almost every level, which gets annoying fast. Many players have mentioned this in reviews, but it seems the developers haven’t addressed the issue. I’d love to keep playing, but the ad frequency is pushing me away. Please consider reducing ads or offering an affordable ad-free option. Otherwise, the game has great potential!

TO MUCH ADS
Thu Apr 11 2024 I_dunno?.

The game is fun and all but there is way to many ads, like when you create you have to watch an ad and then 20 secs later your acc another one. And for phone users be careful when you use creator because if you accident scroll up like you about to leave then go back, you watch another ad. And creative is hard for phone because you either pull down to pull down you Home Screen, pull up to exit the game, and it’s super hard to to rotate and resize bc of the size of things

Horrible, gameplay, horrible monetization
Fri Nov 24 2023 Dissatisfied:/

If I could give this 0, I would. The gameplay is mid at best, the memory and hint not doing much whatsoever, as the memory is supposed to show you the path the ball took, but it only shows the position of shooting. The hint shows some line, but it never works out, as it doesn’t match with the path that the ball that you shoot will take. When you wanted one of those powerups, you had to watch a 30 second ad. Every 5 tries or so, and mind you, this is with other levels as well, including very difficult ones, you would have to watch an ad. It gets frustrating very quickly.

So. Many. Ads.
Tue Mar 26 2024 Xmanclauss

The problem with mobile games nowadays is they load them with ads, I swear more than half the time I’m playing I’m watching ads. Every round or 2 you watch an ad, not to mention the ads you have to watch every couple of times you die or lose. In the span of only a couple minutes I watch about 5-6 non-skippable 30 second ads and it ads up to be more time spent watching ads then actually playing the game. 2 stars because the game itself is genuinely fun, just don’t get to spend much time actually playing it because of the ads.

i do NOT recommend
Fri Jun 27 2025 do NOT waste your storage

so first the amount of ads are just diabolical😭second i think the game has a virus because when i downloaded my wifi stopped working and no matter what i tried my phone wouldn’t work like my phone was working but as SOON as i downloaded the game my phone was laggy and it didn’t work so like what the frick bruh😭and ok top of the that after every single fricken level there’s an ad and some of the ads are just plain weird bro like you can have ads but at least lower the ads down and PLEASE check the ads like i got a fricken ad about and ai app that had s#x like bro what the heck so yeah i do NOT recommend!

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App Store Description. Thorn And Balloons is a very interesting casual game. In the game, you need to control the strength and angle to launch the thorn ball,...

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