This is a soft Not Recommended. I think the game is fine, but I don't enjoy it very much. Forgive me if these thoughts are scattered.
Played this game when it was new to early access and recently. I will say the game has improved.
The game is called Peglin which might be to evoke images of Peggle, but these two games play quite differently. If you're looking for something just like Peggle, this may not be what you want.
I find this game to fall into the unfortunate yet common rogue-lite pitfall of heavy RNG reliance. While user input and skill is somewhat important, most of a run's success hinges on luck.
Beyond maybe a few planned bounces, your orb's trajectory is essentially luck based. Most boards aren't designed like boards in Peggle: there are much more pegs and seemingly much less places for intended combos. While some boards work better with certain orb and relic combinations... this comes down to RNG again. The design of the board designs seem to be catered to making certain builds feel powerful or less useful rather than player skill. Again, the point isn't to clear boards, but simply to increase damage numbers with multiple peg hits.
It's fairly common to go for a certain build only to be completely denied access to the orbs or relics necessary to make a build work. While this can be an interesting challenge to pivot to a different build, I feel that there is not enough flexibility in options to do this reliably. There are also many random event spaces on the maps, some of which feel necessary to get builds going and others which feel like they can hamstring the chances of a run's success, as you can't choose to ignore them.
While I recognize it is inevitable with design, some orbs and relics are leagues above others in usefulness.
I feel like sometimes there is a little bit of an issue where builds don't exactly mesh together in a fun way. It feels like there are set builds to go for rather than a lot of fun elements interacting with each other. There's not a satisfying amount of interactions between orbs and relics that make each run feel unique or interesting. I don't think this can be changed by simply adding more items, as that will likely make RNG much worse.
The only thing that feels set are enemy attack patterns.
Overall, user interaction doesn't feel particularly impactful in gameplay. Most of the game is just building up a powerful inventory. I don't find that style of gameplay very exciting or fun.
The challenge run options seem very minimal in changes other than standard number reduction difficulty.
There are four characters to choose from, but you must unlock them with some rather strict and sometimes frustrating requirements. Again, you're at the whims of RNG as to whether or not you will be able to unlock these characters. You have to start with arguably the least viable character.
I really wanted to enjoy this game a lot!

8.5/10

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