Update Two Hundred and Fifty-Five: 27 November 2018

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That was a fun one! Stylish, interesting, with a satisfying mechanic and beautiful soundtrack, Donut County isn’t one to miss. Everything runs as smooth as butter and is bursting with personality. This game steals like an artist—it takes heavy inspiration from Katamari and Animal Crossing but changes and remixes it into something fully on its own.

The gameplay is wonderful—you control a hole in the ground (okay, well, you control a raccoon that’s controlling a hole in the ground) and you move it under objects to swallow them up. The more objects you swallow, the bigger the hole, meaning the bigger objects you can swallow. As you progress, some more mechanics get laid in, not the least of which is a catapult you can use to launch some objects back up into the air. There’s some very light puzzling, but a lot of the game is the zen of just swallowing everything up.

That’s also the game’s biggest downfall—the gameplay is TOO fun, but you don’t do enough of it in a prolonged fashion. (YES, I recognize how strange it is for me to say this) The levels are all pretty small, each one able to be finished in probably seven minutes or less. While I know it’s a very, very small team, I would have LOVED for there to have been bigger, longer levels.

Otherwise, it’s one to pick up! I, myself, have gotta get the soundtrack. It’s worth it.

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