Cascadium

Idle & Incremental Lovers recommends Cascadium : [i] Cascadium is a slow-paced game for patient math lovers who like to optimize their cost-benefit ratio. If you're looking for "high luck - high reward" plinko dopamine, this probably isn't for you. [/i] + Exponent, multi, discount, probabilities, prestige timing... If you're into math, you will have a blast carefully choosing and planning your upgrades! + Pretty interesting feature and multiple levels of prestige. + Challenges, which come lately in the game and each provide interesting rewards, are enjoyable to tackle. +/- Keep in mind that this is really slow-paced : you better play it as a desktop game, otherwise you'll quickly get bored watching your screen while nothing exciting happens. - It often takes dozens of hours to unlock the next gameplay mechanic (it took me more than 100 hours to unlock mutations, for example). - Some math and mechanics would benefit from more explanations. - Be careful what you're doing: with all those prestige systems, you might easily loose many hours of grind by clicking without carefully reading (and as explanations aren't great, you might get caught the first times you use a new prestige-like…

Would it be possible to include bouncing sound effects for the balls? The current lack of sound makes the experience somewhat dull.

The balls fall down. You get some points. You can upgrade to get more points. There is a prestige. This is very bare-bones within that design. There is no story. There isn't much to this game and I can't recommend it.

Good one, just hit 100 hours and an about a quarter of the way through the achievements which seem like a decent progression gauge here. I got sick of incrementals that require a guide, or discord, which I actually despise, to accomplish meaningful gains. This is not like those games. It's fun without being brainless but doesn't require a degree in rocket surgery to figure out. Nice, steady progress so far that seems to only slow down a little bit until figuring out the next step. Plus it's kinda mesmerizing to watch.

Not a bad price, but one of the more boring incrementals I've played recently. After 18 hours there's really no interesting mechanics, strategies, interesting unlocks, etc.

Broken on steamdeck, can select some ui but cant buy upgrades.