Pinly: A Plinko Roguelike

About this game

Pinly is a Plinko roguelike that combines physics-based combat with loot management and wave-based castle defense.


A horde of monsters has decided that the peaceful kingdom of Hohg has had it too good for far too long... and now it’s time for an invasion.
Slot your weapons into the castle’s Plinko board, drop the ball, and deal damage as it bounces through your loadout. The path the ball takes is never guaranteed, but the builds you create determine just how much you can get out of every drop.










Each run, you defend your castle against increasingly powerful enemy waves. Between fights, visit the shop to buy, sell, upgrade, and manage your gear: weapons, armor, rings, and more. The right combination of items can turn a challenging wave into a clean sweep. The wrong one leaves you scrambling.




Weapons slot directly into the board, so your layout matters as much as what you've collected. Merge duplicate items into stronger versions to build toward a loadout that can handle whatever comes next. Every decision shapes the run.

• Plinko board combat: weapons placed on the board deal damage as the ball passes through them
  
• Loot management: build, upgrade, and refine your loadout between every wave
  
• Wave-based castle defense: enemies grow stronger each day; survival depends on your build
  
• Item merging and upgrading: combine weapons and armor to unlock more powerful versions
  
• Roguelike runs: permanent death, fresh loot pools, and endless build variety

Latest news

• Patch Notes·1 Sept 2026Official

  Pinly Demo — 0.5.0 Update

  Pinly Demo — 0.5.0 UpdateThanks to everyone playing the demo and sending feedback! Here's what's new:Auto fast-forward once a wave is won, so you're not watching an empty board. Your manual speed setting stays put.Launches in fullscreen now (fixes the taskbar clipping the UI). Still switchable in Settings.Confirmation prompts before quitting or leaving to the menu, so you won't lose a run to a stray click.New dust puff when equipping gear."DODGE" now shows over your character, not the enemy.Waves no longer repeat back-to-back, and the opening fights escalate more cleanly.Fixed the equip hint arrow pointing at every slot instead of the right one.Fixed a status effect icon flicker on enemies.Keep the feedback coming, it's shaping the game directly. If you're enjoying it, a wishlist helps a ton!— ANIGRAM
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• Patch Notes·21 Aug 2026Official

  Thank you for 100+ demo players! (+ a small update)

  100+ of you have played the Pinly demo, thank you!When we put the demo up, we had no idea if anyone would drop a single ball. Seeing over 100 players give it a run, with a lot of you sticking around for a full siege, means a lot to us as a tiny team. Thank you for playing, wishlisting, and telling us what you think.If you haven't tried it yet, the demo is free and out now. And if you'd like to follow where Pinly goes next, adding it to your wishlist is the best way to hear about the full release.Small update out nowWe also pushed a quick quality-of-life update based on early feedback:Added a settings screen, now accessible from the main menuAdded a V-Sync toggleAdded a fullscreen toggleMore to come. If something feels off or you hit a bug, let us know in the discussions, we read everything.See you on the board!
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• Community & Events·17 Aug 2026Official

  Pinly Demo Is Live for Steam Pins & Pegs Fest!

  The Pinly demo is live, and we're part of Steam Pins & Pegs Fest!From August 17 to 20, Steam is celebrating games built around ricochets, bounces, and physics, and Pinly is in the lineup. There's no better time to try it.What is Pinly?Pinly is a roguelike castle defense game built on a Plinko board, where the weapons and armor you equip physically become the pegs and goal zones the ball bounces through. Drag a weapon onto the board and it fires when the ball hits it. Your armor decides what the five goal zones at the bottom do. So building a loadout and building the level are the same action.A horde arrives every day across a five-day siege. Between waves you buy, upgrade, and sell gear, merging duplicates up through rarity tiers. Then you drop the ball and find out whether what you built holds.The demo includes:The first five days of the siege, ending on a boss40 weapons that unlock as the days progressSix status effects to build around, from Bleed to Chill and FreezeThe full shop, gear merging, and goal zone systemsPlay the free demo now, and if you like it, add Pinly to your wishlist so you don't miss the full release.See you on the board!
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