RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike

Too much waiting for potential combos wich often never come. You spend like 20% actually playing the game and 80% waiting so your run doesn't end. Can't recommend. It's not made badly, it's just boring. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☑ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☑ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☑ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☑ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

I went to my local arcade, played the coin pusher, had fun, came home, steam recommended this game, I said screw it why not, and I also had fun. I'm not really into gambling games, they never had any amount of appeal to me, and coin pushers in real life are the same way, I just like seeing the coins move around and the audio feedback. Sometimes a tower of coins comes in and you get to see it fall. It's an expensive pass time to do occasionally but from time to time, it does what I want it to do, and it's to watch a bunch of coins fall and roll around. Raccoin is essentially just that but with some funny synergies and point requirements. I just like seeing the different types of ways you can make the coins get to the bottom or ways to make towers spawn infinitely or get a weird chain reaction. It's just satisfying to play. This isn't a game thats supposed to be difficult or frankly all that engaging, it's practically just a time waster, and honestly, it's very fun as a time waster. You watch the coins do things. They made nice noises. Maybe the run is now just inifinitely repeating itself, you end the run, turn the game off, and come back when you want to. Hope the game gets some more interesting content or maybe some cheap DLCs or something, cause it's just basic fun with a very cute artstyle. For like 5-10 hours on sale you really can't go wrong if it looks mildly interesting to you.

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Very cute and crazy game, 1 of my new favs

[h1]Rating:[/h1] 6.5/10 [h1]Buy/Sale/Skip[/h1] This game is definitely not the worst purchase for around $12 USD, but picking it up on sale definitely makes me feel better about it in the end. [h1]TL;DR:[/h1] Raccoin is a fun game for what it's worth. I think there are some glaring issues that keep it from standing next to the rougelike greats such as Balatro or Vampire Survivors/Crawlers, but it's still very fun and satisfying until you start to rub up against those issues. [hr][/hr] [h1]Pros:[/h1] + Visuals: The game looks great. The art style and retro feel of the game make it a pleasure to look at for long runs. The visual clarity is as good as they could possibly make it. There are plenty of times where you can cause enough crazy stuff to happen that it's kinda impossible to tell what is where, but I don't blame them for that. That's just a fun part of creating a wacky combo and enjoying the chaos. + Sound Design: I just want to take a second here and say the sound design of the coins falling into the collector is so satisfying. Once I had played and unlocked enough I did end up turning it down since runs would go on for over an hour and I wanted to listen to something else to pass the time. + Creativity: There are some really fun and creative ideas here in terms of the special coins. There are numerous wacky combos you can clearly see the game point you towards, but also discover on your own. Some of the combos like cooking can get a little obtuse, but I'm definitely glad they were willing to include something like that and just have you choose how much to engage with it. + Customization: By doing runs and achieving more and more total score you unlock more wheel points and skins for the cabinet. The skins are pretty cool and there's even some that are references to other games. As for the wheel, it's another level of strategy for the game. As you score coins and your combo increases you will get wheel spins. This wheel is RNG and you can get more coins/prizes to drop, coin towers, bad coins, tickets, etc. etc. Allowing you to customize the wheel means you can strategize and maybe take more chances to drop prizes and synergize that with an upgrade in the game that transforms coins when a prize lands nearby. An added layer of depth like that is cool, even if it doesn't really change the game too significantly. [hr][/hr] [h1]Mixed:[/h1] +/- Gameplay: The gameplay is simple. You click to insert coins, click special coins to use them, click prizes to use those, and browse the shop for more coins and upgrades. It's very much somewhere between an idle game and a normal roguelike since combos and prizes can require specific timing. Which is why longer run times make this a problem. If I could just walk away and let it run like an idle game, this wouldn't be as noticeable. But because my input is required to insert coins/use prizes/etc you still have to kinda pay attention. It really lives in a weird gray area where you can mostly not pay full attention and multi-task, but you can't just leave it alone. If I'm going to be here for an hour+, I want to either be locked in or watching a video essay. +/- Build Variety: While there are tons of different combos to pull off, some are demonstrably better than others. Almost any combo can clear a run to round 15, but going endless sort of railroads you into a strategy. Getting exponentially more and more score in a realistic timeframe makes you aim in a certain direction unless you want to be in a run for hours and hours. This is not a solved issue for other roguelikes either. That's why I would consider it mixed and not a con. +/- Shop: The shop in this game kinda sucks. The archetype you pick to play as will have bonuses that appeal to using specific types of coins. But there is nothing you can do to prevent other coins from appearing in the shop. So on Endless runs I found myself just re-rolling the shop literally as many times as I could afford to just sifting through coin after coin until I found one that was actually good or I needed for a combo. I think I re-rolled the shop in this game more than any other roguelike I've ever played. You'll have so much money (tickets) by the time you reach an Endless run that it would be more fun to just pay a larger amount for a coin you want than having to sift through the entire collection each time you beat a level. +/- Classic Mode: There is another mode in the game where it's more simple and you're just inserting coins Plinko style and not using specials or prizes. You get more coins to use in this mode by doing runs in the normal mode. This is a cool addition for people that might like it, but boy was it not for me. It was just kinda boring and added little to no value for myself specifically. [hr][/hr] [h1]Cons:[/h1] - Game Speed: This is maybe my biggest qualm with the game. In a game like Balatro, you can turn the game speed up pretty fast and it will even accelerate on it's own to resolve longer turns. This game does not have that. It has multiple settings: Slow, Pause, Normal, Fast. That's it. It doesn't get any faster than fast. So when you're working on a run that requires over Xe101 things can DRAG. I've quit multiple runs, not because I was going to lose, but because my combo would purely take too long to hit the required score. To me, roguelike runs shouldn't really last more than an hour, especially if there isn't a way to save and come back. The gameplay loop starts to sour when I'm locked in for longer than a game of DOTA2. [hr][/hr] [h1]Overall:[/h1] Raccoin is an interesting take on the roguelike genre. It invokes the feelings of using the old coin push machines in the arcade, while adding a level of variety and chaos that a real machine could never emulate. This makes it a worthwhile experience as a video game, but it's lacking in areas that make it worthwhile as a roguelike. Lengthy run times + no ability to save and quit + lack of speed levels + combo strength really hurts the late game experience. Going endless is fun at first, until you realize that you might be here for over an hour. And if you want to get more score quicker, you just have to play the obvious combo that does that instead of the new one you found that gets good score, but much slower. That, combined with the fact that it lands somewhere between idle game and normal roguelike in terms of engagement means it's overall just a little awkward. I completed all of the milestones with some insane exponential score runs, but I just don't really feel like going back for 100% completion or just to do runs for fun. Getting 100% completion really just means picking up upgrades you really don't like or need and then selling them later for better things just so the collection screen recognizes it. I think marketing this game as a roguelike so much to even have it in the title might have been too much. When I think of roguelikes I think of the ability to just pop back in and do a run or two when I have time. I just don't have that urge with this game. I unlocked all the characters, hit all the milestones and will just leave it there. Solid 23 hours of gameplay though!

Shiny coin pushing Balatro. Yes.

I'm obsessed with this game. It's the perfect game to play while watching a tv show/movie. Everytime I think I have the perfect strategy I find a new/fun/insane way to win. Highly recommend.

Quite simple at it's core but a lot of coins and modifiers make it really fun to play and play again! Honestly I'm not usually one for roguelikes but I 100%ed this game and really enjoyed it