Pachillinko

its short but fun. love the art style and moody music but after you cap things out, the fun ends there. could of used more uniqueness with varied powerups.

I'm addicted and so fun.

"Mixed" is decidedly the correct review score here. First off, there was an update in 2025 that added a whole new game mode. That was the game that should've been released in the first place (separately). It's good, no complaints. This review is for prior to that update. I bought this game for plinko: I wasn't interested in the pachinko aspect. Unfortunately, you are forced to play pachinko in order to buy balls for the plinko game mode. It took several hours of grinding to start the game I actually wanted to play! The upgrade system is missing some sizzle. The game lags horribly and the load times are atrocious. The achievements are also grindy. I like the music and aesthetic, and since I paid under a dollar I got a good value. I can only recommend it if you're into [i] both [/i] of the pachinko and plinko elements.

I bought this game at $0.59. That is why I can recommend it. I got less than a dollar's worth of fun. There is so much potential that could be had if the prestige had worthwhile stuff, or if there was anything interesting in progression. A skill tree would be cool. It could be difficult to find ways to improve things with the structure you had. Maybe a plinko style with different maps, and mixed with pinball machine mechanics. Maybe special power balls that act differently, like doesn't trigger negative effects of things that could be found on the board. As it is now, it is too shallow and boring. Still worth a buck.

cringe

The graphic style and concept are fun, but the gameplay loop is too simple, so there just isn't much to do. The game appears to have been abandoned with at least one major bug unresolved. As a major fan of the incremental/idle genre, I am content with what I received after buying the game for about 70% off -- but I would recommend that [b]most people can safely skip this game[/b]. For context, I'm a big fan of incremental/idle/clicker games. This one has the potential to have become a solid example of the genre, but falls just a little bit short. The actual gameplay is just a little too simple -- there are very few upgrades, and no real "goals" in the game. Once you get a few upgrades, the only thing to do is aim for achievements, which seem arbitrarily high. For example, the rarest achievement is to drop 1 million balls in Plinko mode. If you manually hold the mouse button down, you can drop about 5 per second, and autospawn drops about 1 per second, for a maximum of about 6 per second. If my math is right, it would take about 46 hours of actively holding down the mouse button in one spot to get the final achievement. Or, maybe you could just run the game for 278 hours on idle in the background...except that there is a major bug that seems to cause the game to crash after a few hours. The bug also seems to crash Steam and potentially other Steam games that are open! This bug is described in the game's discussion board, and has existed and been acknowledged by the developer since early 2022 and remains unresolved. The developer appears to have abandoned the game after June 2022 -- that was the last patch, and the last substantive discussion post/reply (other than one answer to a simple question in October 2022). Overall, it's just kind of frustrating. If there were more upgrades / game mechanics that helped accelerate the late game, this would be a great buy -- that improvement would even be enough to overlook the major crash bug! But when there similar but more fully-featured games (like Pachinkremental) playable for free, [b]this game's music and graphic style just aren't enough to make up for the serious flaws[/b].