We haven't lost the plot completely, despite what the title of this feature suggests. You may have noticed a fair bit of ball-focused sport on TV recently, what with the European Championships and Wimbledon. So, instead of doing yet another list of sports games, we've come up with the 10 best balls in video games.

The ball in indie game The Ball

This might be a game you haven't heard of, but given the title of it we felt it had to be included. It arrived on PC when first-person puzzlers were trendy following Portal, and it's a decent little game in its own right.