
One favorite of mine is using the catapult to launch a frog to eat the bees in the air and making soup before disgusting bugs fall in and ruin it! Some may not like its basic structure and lack of “variety”, but that’s where personal taste comes to play. After you master the first few levels, you encounter basic puzzle mechanics. For the Switch, you can use either the Joy-Con or touchscreen. “Dude!! I’m not gonna kiss your dirty chicken!!” “I hate wiping my butt” While you cannot chose the response, you can add duck emojis! BK is a cheeky wise-guy, and I found myself cracking up at his responses. In between levels, you also have text conversations between characters, and the dialogue is charming and realistic. A few personal favorites are brothers Salt and Pepper as well as the fireworks salesman and enthusiast, Morsel. Of course, after he gets swallowed up too, he needs to face his friend Mira and the other residents. He swallows up Donut County as he strives to earn points for this game. You play as a raccoon named BK that works in a donut shop, playing a remote-controlled “hole”.

The Katamari franchise has a bigger world and has a little room for customization when you create your own planet or stars based off what you collected.ĭonut County‘s strengths lie in its story and the humor you see all along the way. Don’t get me wrong, Donut County is a lovely game, but making comparisons may set your expectations to an unfair level. growing the ball that you roll by also consuming more items), but I feel that if you launch Donut County thinking it will be just like Katamari Damacy, you may be left feeling a bit disappointed. Many have made comparisons to the Katamari franchise with its cutesy graphics, charming music, and “eat-em-up” game-play (expanding a hole by consuming more items vs. I want to address the elephant in the room.

To clarify, I purchased and played this game on my Switch. It’s a delightful physics-based indie game where you move a hole in the ground and grow larger as your consume more of your surroundings. Donut County was developed by Ben Esposito and published by AnnaPurna Interactive in August 2018, now available on the PS4, PC, and Nintendo Switch.
