

The characters are all delightful, the script is funny and well-written, and the game play - which consists almost entirely of sucking the titular county down a hole, and occasionally launching things back up in the air - never gets old. After all, Donut County is a pretty short game, which means that I didn’t have a chance to get sick of it when I played it on PS4.

This really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Why? Simple: because I had so much fun playing it the first time around on PS4, I wanted to confirm that the fun translated to other systems. But when Donut County came out on the Switch, I jumped at the chance to play it again. For the most part, once I’m done with them, that’s it for me - regardless of whether or not I liked it, I’m on to the next game in my ever-expanding backlog. Software description provided by the publisher.I’m not one to replay games. It is the result of six years of solo development, dozens of donuts (for research), and one fateful encounter with a raccoon. The hole won’t stop until the whole county is all gone.ĭonut County was created by Ben Esposito, designer on What Remains of Edith Finch and The Unfinished Swan. You can use it to solve puzzles.or just destroy stuff. COMBINE objects inside for crazy effects: cook soup, breed bunnies, launch fireworks, and more.MOVE the hole to swallow up their stuff, growing bigger each time.EXPLORE every character’s home, each with their own unique environment.When BK falls into one of his own holes, he’s confronted by his best friend Mira and the residents of Donut County, who are all stuck 999 feet underground… and they demand answers! You play as BK, a hole-driving raccoon who swallows up his friends and their homes to earn idiotic prizes. Raccoons have taken over Donut County with remote-controlled trash-stealing holes. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole. Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground.
