![]() ![]() Businesses are being bought up or run out of town to make way for new racoon inhabitants. In the conversations with BKs victims, you get a little more context. Why do the racoons want all of the inhabitants of Donut County gone to make room for themselves? As you swallow up your neighbours and friends, the game provokes you into thinking about why BK is so unashamedly cleansing the neighbourhood. For the most part of the game, he isn’t privy to why they’re having him open up the holes. BK might be a racoon, but he just works for them. Any longer may have been stretching the gameplay a little thin, but at two-ish hours it stays fresh and fun. Donut County keeps things simple without them becoming boring. This reaches a crescendo late in the game where your hole becomes big enough to swallow masses and masses of people. It isn’t the hardest puzzle solving in the world but it is effective. Luring wild animals out to then swallow them is another source of puzzle fodder. Some add-ons to your hole become a factor later in the game, giving a little more scope for puzzles. Some novelties are held back until the final levels, which even include a boss fight. The hole gameplay doesn’t outstay its welcome thanks to some clever pacing. As the holes get larger and larger you’ll eventually be able to swallow whole buildings, with the people inside falling into the empty pit as well.ĭonut County is a great example of getting everything out of a simple mechanic. These holes start small, you have to feed them various objects to make them grow each time. ![]() You play this game by deploying holes in the ground on each stage. Well, you’re not quite sure if he believes that but he at least hasn’t considered what his game is doing. Donut County is Full of HolesīK believes his smartphone game to be doing no harm. Gamification of mundane tasks is a sharp reflection of today’s gig economy, but BK isn’t giving much thought to what he is actually doing to the world. Rewards like levelling up and experience points are traded in for small material prizes. It’s an app featuring extensive gamification. BK has been absentmindedly playing with his phone. Maybe it’s garbage, maybe it’s their homes and possessions. Donut County then jumps forward a little to BK and the rest of the town sat in a giant hole, surrounded by garbage. The game opens with a short text conversation between him and his best friend/co-worker Mira. It is a standout title in what has been a crowded year for Indie excellence. The writing is witty and irrelevant but still thought-provoking and occasionally even moving. The puzzles within won’t exactly stump you, but they are satisfying and take the simple mechanic to its most fun extremes. The levels, while simple, are fun and effective. It clocks in at around 2 hours, has simplistic gameplay, but is one of the most enjoyable experiences with a game in a very long time.ĭonut County is made up mainly of stages where you move a small hole around a map, these intercut with scenes taking place after the gameplay to bring you up to speed on the consequences of your puzzle solving. It has recently been ported to Xbox One and Switch, leaving players with no excuse not to play one of the best games of the year. Donut County released on PlayStation, Steam, and iOS earlier this year.
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