#Donut county game review full

This is the exact same, except that you’re a hole eating trash and with all the danger removed.

The mechanics are curiously similar to those old Flash games where you played as a fish, eating slightly smaller fish, growing in size while avoiding the bigger ones. At the beginning of each scene you’ll only be able to swallow small rocks and objects but your hole soon grows into a gaping void that can consume buildings, cars and even the very landscape itself.

#Donut county game review full

What that trash is composed of varies from location to location, be it a pottery studio, a desert full of snakes or even a restaurant complete with roving cockroaches and a bird that will only drink a perfectly seasoned soup. ‍Donut County’s vibe is the muted tones of the desert remixed with LA’s sunset neon aesthetic.Įach flashback, or ‘level’ if you will, sees you starting as a small hole, controlled by BK on his phone, which you move around the scene consuming trash as you go. If you’ve paid more than a passing glance to Reddit or Twitter or identify as a ‘millennial’ you’ll no doubt be laughing out loud or at least smiling to yourself along the way (who actually laughs out loud anyway?).

And you will hear “lol” a lot, the characters throw them around with abandon and ‘internet speak’ is de rigueur. It’s all very charming, very amusing and ‘much lols’. Oh and they all just so happened to have ordered a doughnut from BK right before, but that’s just a coincidence, right? The game then plays out in little vignettes, the story told through a series of campfire tales from underground and flashbacks to show how each person arrived there, with the occasional interjection between BK and Mira. BK is also trying to get enough points on his new app to buy a quadcopter, and in a totally unrelated sequence of events, giant holes have appeared all over Donut County dropping its residents into a giant chasm and trapping them 999 feet below the surface. You play as BK, a trash panda (or racoon, to those not brought up on the internet) who works in a doughnut shop with his friend Mira. Sleep while you can, for trash panda comes for you.‍