#DONUT COUNTY GAME PC#

And while the cast very much plays second fiddle to Donut County's main character - BK's gaping chasm - it's surprising how distinct and well-formed each of the supporting characters are. BK starts getting a little defensive, particularly when his friend and employee, Mira, leads the charge against him. It becomes apparent that everyone affected by the hole had recently ordered donuts online. The dialogue is perfectly, wonderfully crafted, and each character stuffed with personality and charm. Sprinkled between each puzzle are small narrative sections in which BK's friends and neighbours - all trapped 'Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Ft below' courtesy of the rogue holes popping up around town - huddle around a fire, surrounded by the detritus of their belongings as they each take their turn to blast BK for his selfishness. Instead, it depicts BK's score, not yours, and how close he is to securing his much coveted quadcopter. There is a score at the end of each level but - as you'll soon realise - it doesn't necessarily pertain to you or your actions at all. You're also rewarded for a 'great delivery' - despite the fact all you've done is take things away - and wished a 'garbage' day. The Trashopedia - the raccoon's personal record of what's been sucked down - is as cute and clever as everything else, but it's almost supplementary, hidden away on a menu screen the way a bestiary may be. There's no HUD, nor on-screen instructions because you are, in fact, playing via an app on BK's phone. Yes, this means you'll occasionally have to think about how best to progress, but the puzzles are typically tacit rather than taxing, and few - if any - will stump you for long. Fireworks may help dislodge an item on higher ground, for instance, and a catapult lets you throw whatever you last ate up into the air again - a handy tool should you need to grab items hanging off the top of trees. And once you realise that, you'll slip into a gentle, zen-like pattern of zooming around the scene, silently inhaling whatever you can.Įventually, you'll get a few additional puzzle elements to factor into BK's activities. BK's definition of trash is alarmingly loose he just wants everything on the screen. It cares not that you don't want to vacuum up the poor unsuspecting poultry. This is not a hole of discerning tastes, my friend. Then I thought that perhaps the goal would be to remove everything except the animals and reptiles. Initially, I thought I needed to swallow the props without alerting the characters on screen, but alas, this is not the case. He wants it all, quite honestly, regardless of whether or not it is legitimately garbage, because the more rubbish BK banks, the closer he gets to levelling up and securing his dream: a quadcopter. This seems doubly true when the man happens to be a raccoon as in BK's case, everything qualifies as trash.

We all know the old adage: what is one man's trash is another man's treasure. It's curiously satisfying, watching those items - big and small - tumble and fall. Occasionally things need a little wiggle to coax them down, and you might have to dislodge and gobble up the items on top of a table before the hole is big enough to swallow the table itself.Įventually, you'll be able to suck down a car tyre, garden chairs, ceramic planters, loungers, boulders - you get the idea - until your hole's the biggest thing on screen, dominating everything, and you're able to make whole highways disappear. The more you eat, though, the bigger the hole becomes, so you must carefully select what items to chomp and the order in which you do so. Initially, it'll be small fodder clumps of grass, small rocks, crumpled up balls of paper, books, a teacup or two. Donut County is a curiously relaxing physics-based puzzle game in which you manipulate a hole, moving it around the screen to quietly - almost surreptitiously - eat everything in its path. Yes, it sounds kind of bizarre, and it is, at least to begin with. I suspect that may be the first - and last - time I'll ever write that sentence. But beyond a handful of vignettes in which you hit a button to send text messages and vigorously defend yourself from the angry retorts of the townsfolk, you'll spend most of the playing as a hole. Ostensibly you're BK, a trash-loving raccoon who's found himself in a little hot water with his neighbours.

#DONUT COUNTY GAME PC#

Availability: Out now on PS4, PC and iOS.Short and simple, Donut County is absolutely sublime.ĭonut County has a colourful cast of characters - and it doesn't let you play as any of them.

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