I’m going to look all of you right in the eye and just tell you this piece of bishamon took 3 fucking years to finish and I can’t understand why either
The goal of the game 10,000,000 is right there in the title: get 10,000,000 points. You play the role of a pixelated prisoner (pictured above) who must quest through a dungeon in order to escape. Each run of the dungeon is scored; if you can reach a score of 10,000,000 points, then you can escape.
Each run functions like a dungeon crawler mixed with a tile matching game. You will encounter monsters; to fight those monsters, you must match either sword or staff tiles in order to cast an attack. You will also encounter locked chests and doors; in order to conquer these, you must match key tiles together in order to break locks. You want to make the appropriate matches quickly as well. Every monster or lock that you encounter pushes you towards the left side of the screen, while every victory pushes you a little further to the right. If you hit the left side of the screen, then it’s game over. You can also gain items that will help you open chests, fight off monsters, or just push you further to the right so that you have more time to think.
There is also an upgrade system in place. During your dungeon adventures, you can collect gold, experience, wood, and stone. The wood and stone can be used to build and level up the rooms in which you can get upgrades, while gold and experience can be used to actually purchase those upgrades.
What happens you you finally reach the highly vaunted 10,000,000 points? I won’t say exactly, but it is a little underwhelming. Then again, the game gives you no reason to expect anything dramatic, and it doesn’t take long enough to reach that ending that you will feel cheated. Just don’t go in expecting to have earned something grand.
This game was originally released for mobile platforms, and it shows. It is designed to have short runs that only last a couple of minutes; 10,000,000 is not the kind of game that is supposed to be sat down and enjoyed for multiple hours. That means it is not the best fit for the PC platform, because it was never meant to be.
Still, the game is fun, even on PC. I often found myself plugging in a couple of runs in while I listened to a podcast or listened to music. After six hours of play and reaching the goal of 10,000,000 points, I can’t say that I see myself opening this one up again, but I definitely don’t feel as though I wasted my time or my money.
