PegIdle Steam Charts & Stats

Novel concept for an idler. Early game, you want to just throw as many balls directly in the bucket while sitting on a single board to get enough gold to buy new balls with slightly different effects. Offline progression is ok at this stage. Soon enough, you get to a point where you are just grinding for prestige by insta-clearing stages from sheer carpet bombing. Then endgame, is just more grinding but the higher tier balls don't work for the bucket coins spam from their special effects. Also Offline progression here is really lacking as 8 hours offline would give me 50k prestige while having it open in the background would give me 3M if not more for the same time. Despite 100% it, I do have a few irks to share #21 Rainbow ball : all balls Bonus when hitting pegs, but at that point, it's better to have carpet bomb instant-clear of boards #20 Star ball : spawns more star balls like the auto drop when hitting pegs, makes making a clear board to farm the bucket difficult, then doesn't seem to do much when carpet bombing #19 Ghost ball : goes through obstacles and pegs and gives a bonus to all balls, so it's a great ball for the bucket grinding, but it comes up so late that it doesn't matter much and the bonus for having ghosts on screens only really works when manually throwing balls as the auto-drop cap feels quite low for those And those are the higher tier ones, there's a lot of "act just like a regular ball" ones that don't have any effects other than maybe a different bounce strength Endgame is really where it falls off. As the final scaling makes Ball #12 the highest gold reward right after the final ball, while the rest of the game up to ball #20, every ball is better than the previous one when upgraded to the same price. The grind was really noticeable at that point and the only solution was to keep the game open in the background for a long time. The prestige upgrades can be nice and even add new gameplay features like special pegs, but everything is hidden, so you don't know that those features are at the end of that perk chain until you bought the one just before and then for that final run, all the prestige bonuses are useless since you bought everything already. The UI is a bit lacking, obviously a mobile game first. Functions are hidden in menus, the only hotkeys are to select a different ball with the number row. There's an all on/off button for auto drop but that's hidden in the first page of the settings with no hotkey. There's a separate side menu to switch between 1 or max purchases. Ball descriptions are hidden within a info icon that you need to hover (which took me a while to notice to know what each different ball did). The purchase/info menu can be locked to stay visible on the selected ball but it's either covering the side of the board or the other balls, stopping you from switching selection in some situations. Having some way to buy the cheapest upgrade of current autodropped balls or all of 'em would fix a lot of the late game tedium of upgrading everything as the costs and gold rewards converge. And more hotkeys for everything, purchase gold upgrade, drop upgrade, amount upgrade on the current open purchase menu, one to toggle all auto drop instead of having to open the settings and clicking "off", etc. Overall, it's an alright idler with some different gameplay to just spam clicking. Has its flaws but it can be entertaining for a bit before the endgame issues and tedium show up but the end isn't that far either.

100% completion - 60 hours - True idle Game - Progress does slow down eventually, but still a good game.

This is a game begging you not to play it. As far as I can tell, the best way to play is to open the game, play for like 10 minutes until you hate it, and then close the game for four days, then repeat. Its like the gacha autobattler mobile games without either the anime art, nor the gameplay/clicking menus for incremental growth. The game never tells you how to upgrade balls, how to get into the prestige menu, and it certainly never tells you that you earn gold and prestige while NOT in the game. Most importantly, the game is missing the best parts of Peggle. It doesn't have any whimsy, no interesting maps of pegs, and the art doesn't seem to ever change. I should have played the Demo, because that's the entire experience.

I realise that I have only played the game for just over an hour but wanted to say that I am glad to have taken the plunge in deciding to buy this game. Although at present, I only have small balls, I dream that sometime in the future my balls will be massive and I will earn lots of gold with them, I also dream to be able to see lots of balls all over my screen in the future too! Good balls!

An overall flat experience of an idle game. Interest in unlocking ball types falls off after you realize how little that actually matters, I finished the prestige tree before getting to the final 2 ball types because they aren't worth grinding the gold for when you can just let 6-9 or so ball types autodrop and clear boards afk for prestige grinding and especially when getting the prestige points and filling the tree feel necessary for getting enough gold to even unlock them. Prestige tree wasn't exciting to go through really. And the final grind for the last 2 achievements take so long despite essentially already hitting the end and just needing to wait for your money to go up high enough to check off the last 2 things. Like you finish off the prestige tree and have multiple more hours of just waiting for gold to build up to max the last balls autodrop and hit 1qd gold. You may be able to slightly speed it up if you feel like turning all autodrops off and manually doing a shoot sweep on the board every 3-4 seconds for hours on end, which yeah screw that. And there's nothing else in the game currently, no interesting payoff for maxing the tree since that just sets off your hour long final grind, the last ball is the best one but at the point you reach it who cares. Like I probably wouldn't have bothered writing a review but with better or more interesting idle/incremental games being available online for free I kind of want the ones I pay money for to have more going for them then basic/flat incremental game progression that finish off in an unfun multihour grind for the basic currency to finish off a couple achieves. (Currently still in that final grind btw)

Progress becomes obnoxiously slow in the late game. In the mid-game, progress is extremely fast due to the sheer power of some prestige upgrades; however, the pool of prestige upgrades is quite small, and — because they are mostly additive boosts rather than multiplicative — their power becomes diluted as you buy more and more. Progression becomes slower and slower, and inevitably grinds to a halt when you run out of prestige upgrades.

As an active incremental game, it's decent. Good concept and good enough progression. It would be nice if more of the balls you unlock had abilities - especially once you get past the first few, it's disappointing to unlock a new ball and have it do nothing. Unfortunately, as an idler it falls absolutely flat. The balance is skewed far too in favor of active play, with an entire skill tree devoted to it and balls that increase rewards the more are in play at once. At end game active play is ~250x faster than offline progress. An auto shot upgrade would help mitigate this if you're willing to leave the game open, but to make offline progression more competitive would require fixing the progress formula.

Gameplay loop never evolves and gets more and more stale after only 2 hours or so

could be improved with more qol changes and more content/remakes. felt like a project made and dumped and nothing more. no updates or changes and it makes me sad tbh since the game low key sucks and gets so boring with its stupid grind. you end up from 20 upgrades to like 2 or 1 a day and nothing else. like not fun bro.

Progression feels slow. I prefer the more modern 5-10 hour to complete incremental game experience over the older set it and forget it for a couple days style. I think this game might find more popularity if the progression system was redesigned to be finished in a day or two. Will keep waiting to see if it clicks.