There’s something incredibly satisfying about destroying things, so playing as a hole in the ground that grows larger and larger as it swallows up an entire town is particularly gratifying. Donut County is a unique puzzle game that stars BK, a raccoon messing around on his tablet playing a game where he moves a hole around to swallow things up. Except that hole isn’t just in his game. It has begun to swallow the town around him while BK remains seemingly clueless, continuing to play on his tablet as the citizens of Donut County recount their tales of alling into the hole. The trailer above gives a great snippet of the art style and overall attitude, but the satisfaction of dropping things into a hole has to come from playing the game itself. It’s truly addicting. In what is the sheer opposite of something like Katamari Damacy, where the goal is to make the mass bigger, Donut County is all about making the nothing, the void, the hole, bigger. It’s about the town that falls into that hold and lives 999 feet below the surface. The hold begins small, gobbling up pebbles and plants, before progressively getting bigger and eating the environment around it. Buildings, vehicles, trees, and residents of the town become nothing more than food for the hole, and you, the player, continue in the addictive nature of finding a way to fit everything on screen inside.
BK the raccoon can’t get off his mobile device and it’s sure to cause the destruction o...