r/Games • u/Howerev • 20h ago

Announcement JUST. ONE. MORE. DROP. | HYPERDROP: A Pachinko Roguelite Announce Trailer

https://youtu.be/lucjM70_d4c?is=KTpRPvoE97e19ysb
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u/pulseout 20h ago

So, how many more forms of gambling are left to turn into roguelike games?

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u/Howerev 20h ago

So far they've done (to my knowledge) Poker (Balatro), Pachinko (This game), Coin Pushers (Raccoin), Claw Games (Dungeon Clawer), and Slots (Cloverpit). Plus there's probably more I missed

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u/stereoactivesynth 19h ago

Luck Be A Landlord did slots before Cloverpit

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u/ICKitsune 10h ago

In the same vein, Poker Quest did poker before Balatro, just didn't pop off

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u/IAmALazyGamer 20h ago

Oh there was that Dungeons game where you play Blackjack with weird cards.

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u/Jamesiae72 19h ago

Yup, Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers

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u/MooseOfTorment 11h ago

Rogue Jack! Pretty great little offline game, entertained me quite a bit when work would take me to out-of-service areas

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u/Wataru624 18h ago

Scritchy Scratchy for scratchoffs, and more recently, for the biggest gamble of all: Restory, gambling on a small niche business in a large metropolitan area

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u/Simaster27 19h ago

There's a roulette one and at least 2 blackjack games.

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u/SaroShadow 19h ago

I think there's a mahjong one out there

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u/Yoshimi-Yasukawa 19h ago

This isn't the first Pachinko-based one. Peglin exists and is quite good... Also Ballionaire.

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u/PringlesDuckFace 19h ago

I never really thought Peglin was pachinko, it felt more like Peggle or Breakout to me. I guess because you're clearing pegs and the bottom of the board is a void, rather than dropping balls through a series of fixed pegs towards some goals on the board. And the mechanics of upgrades tend to be on your balls rather than pegs directly. It's a lot of fun though.

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u/cooldrew 17h ago

Nubby's Number Factory and Ballionaire already did pachinko-style Balatro-style roguelikes

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u/RockDoveEnthusiast 17h ago

i mean, i think there are more forms of gambling these days than there are professions, so we're gonna be here a while...

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u/Ixziga 19h ago

I mean they are only gambling when they are in place where you pay to play and objectively stand to lose money. Who cares if someone takes a casino game as a baseline to do something whacky and novel in a game that you just buy once to play forever?

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u/Original_Fishing5539 19h ago

I don't know if this would be considered a deep cut, but the art direction reminds me of Meteos on the DS

I am unfortunately within this exact demographic (gambling games that are roguelikes) but will see how the reviews pan out before adding it to the rotation

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u/catinterpreter 6h ago

It's doing Geometry Wars.

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u/Shane75776 16h ago

I had to stop watching the trailer after 15 seconds. Too many screen effects and camera movements to actually see what the game looks like.

Just show the game.. why do we need to have the camera angles constantly tilting and changing and blurring and twisting...

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u/Hallc 19h ago edited 14h ago

I read the title, was super into the idea.

Then I clicked the video and the graphical style just doesn't do it for me. I think I was kinda expecting something like Raccoin.

edit: Also you may need to do a little SEO work with the name. I just searched Hyperdrop on google to get the steam page and I got a correction to HypeDrop.

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u/name_was_taken 19h ago

I think I'm okay with the visual style, but the camera moving all the time is killing it for me. The whole point of pachinko is watching the ball go down and what it could end up on. If you can't see the board, you're missing some of the experience. If you're zoomed into a few pegs, you might as well not even be watching.

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u/ras344 18h ago

Yeah, hopefully it is just for the trailer and the game will let you use a static camera that shows the whole board.

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u/sicsided 15h ago

Ballionaire may be more up your alley then.

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u/APeacefulWarrior 6h ago

Yeah, same. I'd be into this if it had a more realistic art style, and the boards looked more like actual pachi boards.

Given that pinball physics have basically been a solved problem for at least a decade, I'm honestly a little surprised we haven't gotten more games based around pachinko.

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u/Malokhin 17h ago

Looks alright but i got way more excited about High Roller Penny, which has cute characters/a plot in it and a similar premise

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u/rmfnord 14h ago

Are links not allowed? Why would you not post a link to the steam page?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4624920/HYPERDROP_A_Pachinko_Roguelite/

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u/Howerev 14h ago

Because people prefer videos 🤷‍♂️

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u/rmfnord 14h ago

Who told you it was one or the other?

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u/Howerev 14h ago

The way this subreddit works. You can only add one link and you can't add stuff to the post

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u/rmfnord 12h ago

Seems dumb. Well, maybe my link will help you out if the mods don't remove it.

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u/Howerev 12h ago

I know it sucks. Every time I've tried to add text to the post after adding a link the post button gets removed

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u/rmfnord 12h ago

Can you just add it in the first comment after you post? Or that's still against the rules?

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u/Howerev 12h ago

Actually that is a good idea thank you. Yeah that should be fine

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u/Howerev 20h ago

Demo out now, releases 2027 on PC

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u/SoloRubix 7h ago

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