Pachincro

This game crashes with many AOE visual effects.

I highly agree with the review that said "Decent fun, although scaling level requirements with the number of upgrades you have unlocked so it's actually harder to level up when you're highly upgraded is an absolutely baffling choice."

[h1]Incremental Plinko Fun[/h1] [i]Pachincro[/i] is one of the games that imagines Pachinko/Plinko as an idle game. Pachinko meets incremental. There's three modes. Plinko mode has you meeting various money milestones to earn prestige points toward a prestige tech tree, but is set to a timer. Attack mode is a tower defense variant with bosses to defeat. Idle mode is a more chill version of Plinko mode. In the base game, you have a shooter firing balls at a few dozen pins. Each bounce of a ball on a pin will earn money, and chip away at the pin's health. Pins will eventually be "killed" and disappear, sometimes with just one hit. Balls also have health points. All modes have upgrades you can buy with money earned. These include peg health, ball health, damage, and area of effect damage. There are also lasers and drones and extra ball shooters that help take care of the pegs. All modes also have a prestige system. Restart for prestige tokens that can be invested for permanent bonuses. In Plinko mode, if a ball reaches the bottom, it will earn a multiplier toward that run's earnings. Plinko mode is set up as levels. Passing a level requires earning a certain money amount within a short time in a run. You keep any money you earn, though, allowing you to plow it into some tech trees for upgrades. However, the initial time limit is only a few seconds. Fail a level, and the level will restart after a small countdown. This, of course, can be expanded, and some upgrades provide ways to earn a bit more time on the timer. The tech tree is purchased with the money you accumulate during a run. The prestige tree's tokens are earned one per level passed, but has a hard cap. Just one early prestige restart or two will gain enough bonuses to be able to easily fill out the regular tech tree, which is more than enough to reach the hard cap prestige level. Attack mode has pegs slowly rising toward the ball shooter. Balls here will bounce on the bottom line instead of falling away. There's a danger line shield that kills pegs, but at the expense of some shooter health. Lose all health, lose the run. Once again, passing waves/levels requires earning so much money. There are, of course upgrades. One bunch is within the run, purchased with money earned along the way. The post-run tech tree uses the total money you've won during a run, even if you spent it all on the upgrades within the run. And a prestige tree is here, with the same hard cap on prestige levels you can earn in one run. There's supposed to be boss fights, but, after reaching the end of 50 levels' worth of waves, I haven't reached it, and the achievement has yet to be triggered. Idle mode runs continuously. It uses the Attack mode upgrades you earn within a run, instead of using Plinko mode's post-run tech tree. It also has a system where you can buy prestige crystals within a run and use them to buy prestige upgrades that persist. You restart after you purchase crystals, but don't lose the money you've earned. However, it seems that you can buy only one prestige crystal at a time. As you keep money, this is merely a minor annoyance. Credit to the dev for trying to mix it up a bit with three modes and added attacks, but the basis of the game is just pachinko, a ball bouncing amid pegs. You might get bored of it after exhausting the normal tech trees of Plinko and Attack modes a couple times. Still, while not great, and I'm wondering where the Attack mode tower defense bosses are, it's not a bad game, either. Worth a little mild encouragement.