Ballionaire

Ballionaire is a sequencing ball-drop simulation where you build a Pachinko board that can trigger huge score combos. Play involves making choices about which items to pick and where to place them, before dropping the ball and hoping the physics fall in your favour. It stands out for how item scoring synergises with each other to create huge combos and massive scores.

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It's a fast-paced pachinko challenge where you aim to find items that work well together to create the most amount of money when hit. When you release the ball, each peg is worth $1. However, the items you place can do things like double your score, spawn balls with particular abilities or earn hundreds of dollars. Some items trigger when hit, or when hit after another item or by a certain type of ball, or maybe if they aren't hit at all.

The challenge is that each run you must meet the monetary demands of the Elders. This not only sets a score for you to meet by limits the way you can achieve it with devious game-changing tribulations. As you progress you learn how these hundreds of items can interact with each other. You develop ways to try and score a huge amount of money. The game invites players to create score-breaking outcomes that encourage all manner of wild scoring theories to be developed.

The result is a game more about planning than the chance of where the ball drops. Crafting theories of the best items to chain together to score the most money becomes a fascinating obsession.

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Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Ballionaire 9 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 7 weeks ago.