615-890-3129 - Enjoy tasty donuts, lunch, and breakfast freshly prepared at Donut Country. Visit 1311 Memorial Blvd, Murfreesboro, TN 37129. Donut County is a new game about a mysterious hole in the ground developed by Ben Esposito. Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.
A game that has the same basic premise as Hole.io (move a hole, eat a thing, get bigger, eventually eat buildings,) but with racoons, donuts, a story, and challenges? You had my attention.
I just finished the game today.
TL;DR – extreme casual, meh story, felt like a short game for $4.99, fun puzzles
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Each round of play is punctuated by story. Some rounds involve solving puzzles by doing things like gathering water and vomiting it out with your powers of being a spitting hole. Some things involve growing large enough to knock racoons off of tricycles and then swallowing and spitting them onto a hot air balloon to bring it down under the sheer weight of the trash bandits.
There are a couple of puzzles to solve which might take you a time or two to figure out but most things are fairly straightforward.
Donut County story
Most of the story could have been summed up in a little text and maybe an animation or two, but you have to tap as each thing writes out and some of the story between rounds can take 40+ taps to get through. I found myself not particularly enthralled and just wanting to get to the actual game more often than not, so basically by round 4 or so I was just ignoring the story.
I didn’t really care about where it was going, and if you can lose me in 4 story breaks to a game that’s a slightly modified Hole.io with fairly easy to solve levels… uh, dunno, just was not my thing and I started feeling the story completely got in the way of what was shaping up to be an amusing game.
Glazed hole action
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Most levels in Donut County can be played without skill. I mean this is not timed, you can walk away, use a stylus, have a 5yo do the level, etc. They’re rounds in which you move the hole around, swallow up stuff and become a larger hole.
However, there are several levels in which you have to do things such as fill up with water, start a machine, move the hole around an object, spit the water out at a certain time, light a fuse on a rocket, swallow the rocket, move the hole somewhere and release the rocket. This is with, at least on my Note 8, an entirely different level of difficulty from the fairly casual world-consuming that you’ve been doing earlier in the game.
This is a bit more of a challenge because suddenly you realize that you’re dealing with some hole-lag when you’re attempting to move around obstacles. I mean, it’s doable, but you’ll feel like you’re playing an emulator of an emulator from over someone’s shoulder remotely on a dial up connection. It’s extremely doable mind you, you’re not going to get stuck, it’s just … eh.
There’s a boss battle in there that feels like it was shoehorned in – trying to play an action level with the engine they’ve got felt like… not fun. Anticlimactic ending. Cakewalk.
Overall
I’ll put it out there this isn’t a game that caught me but I hold nothing against it. I played through, beat it, and am now looking for something similar to the actual gameplay because the levels it had were fun, but unfortunately few. I’d like more levels, less story, and something at under the $4.99 price they’re asking. The graphics are great, the gameplay is mostly fun, but the story is in the way and it’s not particularly innovative.
Grab it if it’s a buck or two as it does have some genuinely fun levels.
You can grab it at the Play Store (the one I reviewed,) and the App Store (where it evidently was chosen the game of the year by the Apple App Store team)
Download Donut County for free on PC this page will show you how to download and install the full version of Donut County on PC.
About Donut County
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Donut County is an indie video game developed by American indie designer Ben Esposito and published by Annapurna Interactive. In Donut County, the players control a hole across several different levels. As players move the hole to swallow objects, the hole increases in size. There are some puzzle aspects to this; to swallow objects floating on top of water, the player may need to maneuver the hole to drain part of the water, and then have that water consumed by a bird, repeating this until the water is drained. Later in the game, the player gains access to a catapult that fits in the top of the hole. This can be used to fling certain items swallowed by it to hit outcroppings to dislodge objects or to trigger switches.
How to Download and Install Donut County
- Click on the download button below. You will be redirected to a download page for Donut County. If you;re asked for a password, use: www.gametrex.com
- Choose a mirror to complete your download. If using a torrent download, you will first need to download uTorrent.
- Once Donut County has finished downloading, extract the file using a software such as WinRAR.
- Run the game setup inside the extracted folder and install the game.
- Once the installation is complete, you can now launch the game using the game;s shortcut on your desktop.
- Enjoy the game!
Donut County Walkthrough
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Donut County PC Download
The download is for Donut County file size is 147.0MB
Donut County System Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E8400
- RAM: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon HD 3870
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-4170 or better
- RAM: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 640 or better
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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