Good thing is, it’s easy to skip all in-app purchases since nothing is gated behind paywalls and it’s impossible to succeed with only a bottomless money purse since skill is also needed for puzzling. This is also how the game makes it revenue: players using money to get more game currency to get more rolls from the gacha machine to increase the chances to get what you wish. During collaborations, the units are from certain sources like the given examples, Marvel and Disney. In this case, the game currency is used to gain random new hero units. Gacha games usually involve some sort of gambling or loot box mechanic. So, we have match-three and team-building mechanics but wait – there’s more! PAD is also a gacha game, collaborating with famous animes and IPs like Disney and Marvel. Heroes represent four different colors, which match the orbs in the playfield, and activating the same color orb as a hero in your team also actives heroes’ attack.Ĭharacter view of Tanjiro, from Demon Slayer collaboration Or you might need to make seven combos or match orbs in cross formations. Every hero has also a leader skill that defines your playstyle: for example, you might need to match rows of certain colors to activate your leader skills, which means getting the maximum damage output and survival bonuses. To get to the puzzling part you need to assemble a team of five heroes, each with their skillset. This is only one part of the game though and here it gets more complicated. This opens up ways to match the orbs in various different ways and make huge combos. A common mechanic in match-three games is, that you can swap only the positions of two tiles or orbs, but in this game you ”pick up” an orb with your finger and drag it all around the playfield within a given time limit. Like in many other same genre games, your playfield is a board of different kinds of tiles and in this case, orbs and your job is to match different kinds of colors or shapes. Icons on opponents give information about their skillset. The top of the screen shows how to active your leader skills.

Puzzle and dragon team builder