Platinum Trophy #8: Donut County

Date Earned: 26th August 2018

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Donut County is a game I reviewed here on Push Square, and I was happy to do it.

It’s perfectly in my wheelhouse; it’s a short indie game with a novel premise and a decidedly unserious tone. You can keep your big blockbusters and samey annual shooters — give me unique, silly little games any day of the week.

How could I not love a game about a selfish raccoon sending his entire town and its people into oblivion just to get his mitts on a drone?

Admittedly, it’s got a very internet humour vibe, and that’s not going to work for everyone, but I really liked this daft distraction.

There’s definitely some Katamari Damacy in the core idea, which is that you control a hole in the ground that expands the more objects fall into it. While Donut County doesn’t have the same scope as Bandai Namco’s series, it definitely shares a sense of silliness that’s all too rare in games nowadays.

It’s a short experience, but it’s one full of cute puzzles, funny writing, and a simple but satisfying idea at its centre. Sending stuff down a perfect cartoon hole in the ground is sort of senseless, but it’s oddly compelling.

Trophies-wise, this is probably one of the easier platinums I’ve earned. You’ll get most (if not all) the Trophies just playing through the story.

If I remember rightly, I didn’t think about the platinum until after I’d completed the game and the review was done, hopping back in to scoop up the few remaining tasks, because why not?

Listen, I don’t have a huge amount to say about this one. Donut County is a great little game, it’s an easy plat, and sometimes that’s all we need, isn’t it? Something easy breezy. If games were dinner, this would be a frozen pizza, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

I nearly deleted that bit about the pizza, but then I thought, Going Platinum isn’t exactly premium stuff, you know? If regular features were dinner, it’d be a frozen pizza.

Cheers, Donut County.

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