Piccolo vs Dial Drop

• #1 Most Downloaded Game (April, May, June, July 2021) — Japan Mac App Store! • Featured in Apple's "What We're Playing", "Games We Love" and "Best Games Made in France"! • "Beautiful, minimalistic and highly addictive." — TouchArcade • "A simple but captivating game." — Mac4Ever • "From us, this small but fine application therefore receives an absolute recommendation." — Appgefahren • "Whether you're a fan of the game or not, Piccolo will make you love Othello." — MaxiApple Piccolo® is the best Othello app for iPhone®, iPad® and Mac®. It features a strong, fast AI on top of a polished user interface, with beautiful themes, advanced features, online play and more. Piccolo is available in 20 languages and comes with no ads or tracking. It's an Othello app made for Othello players by Othello lovers. • Strong AI: Piccolo features a custom Othello AI engine written in the Rust programming language, designed to be fast, challenging and customizable. The AI's default Level 1 difficulty can be beaten by beginners, while its Level 8 difficulty is likely to challenge even top Othello masters around the world. Designed from scratch, the Piccolo AI engine is sure to give seasoned Othello players a new type of opponent to play against, with often surprising and creative strategies. • User Experience: Piccolo features a native user experience designed for iOS and macOS. A modern design lets you focus on the game, with helpful move indicators, the ability to undo moves, and automatic game saves between every move in case you close the app by mistake or your phone's battery runs out. Multiplayer play is supported both locally and online. • Themes: Piccolo features a variety of beautiful themes to customize and breathe fresh life into your Othello experience. Othello veterans might enjoy sticking to the Classic theme, while others might prefer the handsome Seasoned Wood theme, the adorable Sailor Moon theme or even the Persian Spray theme, inspired by traditional Iranian ceramics. Additional themes designed by guest artist Aline Corrêa are also available, giving you access to an Othello game on top of an alligator lake, inside an ancient castle, next to Egyptian pyramids, and more! • Play Online: Piccolo Online is a free online service that lets you connect with friends via easily exchangeable Game Codes to play friendly Othello games wherever you are around the world. Piccolo Online also supports automatic matchmaking so that you can quickly play games with random opponents worldwide. Piccolo Online features quick, stable connections, and benefits from a strong privacy policy. • Cute iMessage Stickers: Send cute “chibi”-style iMessage stickers to your friends with Piccolo's bundled iMessage Sticker Pack! Featuring 36 custom illustrations drawn by anime artist Erica Li, the stickers feature Piccolo's adorable mascot in different relatable situations. • No Ads, No Tracking: Unlike a majority of games on the App Store today, Piccolo has no terms you need to accept before playing. Piccolo will never show you a single ad, and will never track you. The app is entirely a labor of love for the game of Othello, made by players for players. • Available in 20 Languages: Thanks to contributions from players around the world, Piccolo has been translated from English into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. No matter where you are, Piccolo's interface will be easy to understand. Othello® is a registered trademark of MegaHouse Corporation. Piccolo: Othello is an independent implementation of the underlying game, which is placed in the public domain.

Set the dial. Release. Watch your committed precision survive the chaos. Dial Drop is a one-thumb skill game with a single, honest idea: you get one dial and one ball. Before each drop you commit a single precise value, then lift your thumb to release. The ball falls through a fixed course of bumpers, baskets, and pegs — and tiny differences in your value send it to wildly different places. You can't steer mid-flight. All of your skill is spent ahead of time, in choosing the number. THE HOOK Because the course is fully deterministic, every miss has an exact answer — never a guess. The coach proves it: on the first level of every zone it reveals the exact dial that would have dropped it home, with a ghost trajectory and a clear "you were 3 too hard." Failure is taught, never punished. Once you've learned to read the course, every near-miss pulls you back for one more. WHAT YOU GET • 300 hand-tuned levels across 30 distinct zones • A difficulty curve that starts forgiving and tightens to a needle • Floor cups, wall-mounted baskets, moving targets, gravity wells, wind, and bouncy materials • Swish detection — thread it clean for the satisfying drop • A cosmetic shop: 44 ball skins and 39 trails, all earned by playing (never pay-to-win) • Full offline play — no account, no sign-in, no internet required • One-thumb portrait controls, silent-playable NO TRICKS No timers. No energy. No lives. No gacha. No FOMO. Just a clean skill loop you can put down and pick up. Your progress is saved on your device and goes nowhere else. Dial Drop is a near-miss machine where the near-miss is real — measured to the tick. Set the dial. Trust your read. Drop.