Olympegs

Olympegs is a peg game. You aim, fire a ball down the board, and try to light every gold Sacred peg before you run out of balls. We set it in Greek myth because the gods are good company for a game that's mostly about bad bounces.

The main run is 20 boards, heading down from Olympus past the sea and the Underworld to Tartarus. Each board has its own landmark painted behind it. The deeper ones add moving parts: Poseidon's currents bend the ball, Hephaestus' gears turn, and the Titans' chains swing through the board.

The gods

Before each board you pick one of nine gods. Each one has a power you charge by hitting pegs, plus a passive that's always on. Zeus sends lightning between pegs. Poseidon washes away the pegs you've already lit. Athena pushes the ball sideways, Hermes makes it fly, and Hades can bring back a ball you've lost. The same board plays quite differently depending on who you take.

Your god also stands next to the board and talks while you play. Mostly about each other.

Elements and the finale

Some pegs carry an element. Hit three of the same element in a row and they go off: fire hits the pegs around it, lightning jumps to its neighbors, water splashes across the board, air lets the ball float for a moment, and earth charges your god's power.

When you light the last Sacred peg, the ball stops falling and climbs back up the board, breaking pegs on the way. The higher it gets, the bigger the multiplier, up to x5, and your god catches it at the top.

What's in it

• 20 boards on the main descent
• 27 more in Gods' Days Off: three per god, about what they get up to when nobody's praying. Each one has a myth hidden in it.
• An adventure mode with lives and blessings
• 39 challenges
• Trials of Tartarus, an endless mode, plus a new Today's Trial board every day
• Couch co-op (one player aims, the other steers Charon's ferry) and versus with curses and prophecies. Both work online through Remote Play Together.

A few notes from us

There are no microtransactions and no energy timers. You buy it once.

The aim guide always shows your first bounce, and every peg type has its own shape, not just its own color. If a board gets tough, Easy Breezy is in the settings. Gentle mode turns off screen shake and flashes, and Large Text bumps up the type.

It plays with a mouse, a keyboard or a controller, and the layout fits the Steam Deck screen.