The Coin Game

Do not buy this game! Creator sold out to some shady company that is harvesting your data. Now he's looking for pity after screwing over thousands of people.... It was a great game before he sold but now it's a scam from the company that bought him out. He pulled the mental health card for pity as to why he sold. Really lame.

This recent update now [b]requires[/b] me to agree to my data being collected and sold? Tricking the players who already bought your game into giving you permission to sell their private information and data is absolutely insane. The future is so dystopian.

- Got excited for 1.0 'official' release - Reinstalled game and read update log - Game had to be rebuilt from the ground up after 7+ years of development - Launch into game expecting some minor bugs, but an overall functional game - Start new 'Survival Mode' file - Physics are even worse than before; newspapers I take out of my inventory to deliver clip through the ground, making me have to double-back to the newspaper stand to get more - Encounter more problems the more I play - problems that were never prevalent during the Early Access builds - Uninstall game; come back a month later - Bug fixes were pushed a few days after 1.0 release; receive false sense of hope - Reinstall game again, give it another chance - Play one day of Survival Mode - 'Dunko' Plush listed as 'daily hot item' at pawn shop - Spend all in-game day and most of my money on Dunko game to win prizes to sell - Go to pawn shop to sell; hit 'Inventory' button - Game responds with some message about "Closing the leaderboards before I can open my inventory" - Leaderboards absolutely NOWHERE on the screen, nor am I even around any arcade games - Try (and fail) to get the inventory to work by playing more games - Decide that it's not worth it and cut my losses (with the Dunko plush and the game) I HATE making negative reviews, but I'm hoping me laying out my past couple of experiences with this game will deter people from purchasing (at least for right now). This game somehow got more broken in its official release than the Early Access builds. From what I understand, the publisher rushed the release (typical) and pushed out a game that had to be rebuilt from the ground up before properly playtesting and fixing bugs. Too many small problems in the game that add to your growing frustrations with it. I was willing to try and give it another shot, but after the game locked me out of my inventory, that was the last straw for me. I won't sit here and say "The game's been abandoned! The dev doesn't care anymore!", but I'm not sugar-coating it, either. Straight-up: this game DOES NOT have any business being a '1.0 official release', nor does it deserve your money. With that said, I can't say whether or not it will get fixed in the future. The dev does seem to care, and they do seem to communicate with the community (albeit, sporadically and inconsistantly), but that doesn't guarantee anything. My recommendation? Skip it. Wishlist it if you really want to, but as it stands now, the '1.0 release' is far worse than any of the Early Access builds.

Not gonna lie, this game was always a bit... rough. I bought this years ago, and I never really paid attention to the news and played this when i needed a sit and relax game. One time I joined the discord, every single message was disabled from being sent, and I can't even recall why cause i left same day. I liked the charm when i bought it, it was also at a lower price. I haven't even played the 1.0 version because there are some reviews warning people not to buy. But you know what? I wanted to confirm this for myself. The EULA is new, and when I bought this it didn't exist. I decided to take a look, a full, look. Reading the EULA agreement for anything particularly unsettling. I'll list quotes here that are taken directly from the agreement at the last part of the review. As someone who bought the game in the past, I would've maybe recommended it as it had potential. But now i advise against it. The latest dev blog explains everything with the lack of professionalism and asking for forgiveness. I'm an outsider, and this sorta thing usually doesn't bother me as it's drama related. But I've observed this game for years, the only product you'll get is your own disappointment and hopefully a refund. Here are the rather concerning quotes from the EULA agreement: [h1] And please understand that i am by no means an expert. I'm hardly qualified to dissect this sorta thing. I'm just a dude who took a few minutes to read the eula agreement. [/h1] "The Game may include functionality that enables you to receive additional services, artifacts, content, rights, or licenses for use within or in connection with the Game ("In Game Purchases"). In Game Purchases" "Kwalee collects analytics data including technical information about the use of the Game to help us improve the Game and other Kwalee products. " "You agree that you are responsible for all data charges you incur through the access or use of the Game." "Kwalee reserves the right to change, suspend, remove or disable access to the Game and Your Content for any reason, including but not limited to complaints or allegations of infringement or other unlawful conduct, without liability to you, and at any time without notice." "There may be links from the Game, or from communications you receive from Kwalee, to third-party web sites or services. There may also be links to third-party web sites, applications, content or services within the text or images in the Game. The Game may also include third-party materials that we do not control, maintain or endorse." "if you use an Application to share information, you are consenting to personal data about your profile on the Application being shared; (ii) your use of an Application may cause personal data to be publicly disclosed and/or associated with you, even if Kwalee has not itself provided such information;" "You acknowledge that Kwalee has no obligation to furnish any maintenance and support, except where required by law."

I have spent over 180 hours in this game over the years. It is dead. It's a dead game now. The transfer to the new version of Unity killed it. There will never be multiplayer. The "team" that was "hired" to make improvements have done less than Kevin did in the first two years of pre-release. It's actually incredibly sad how bad and broken it's become. If they can fix the game and actually add the functions promised, increase the number of machines, add new arcades and finally a functional multiplayer I'll come back. Otherwise it's done.

[h1]For the love of god, play this on the pre-1.0 version[/h1] You can switch to pre-1.0 "legacy" version by right clicking the game -> properties -> game versions and betas. [h1]What the hell happened?[/h1] This game's survival mode used to be one of the most fun time-burners out there, but whatever the developers did in the updates in the last year or so completely broke the game with 1.0 - I'm talking about very basic things - walking is broken, at times it's like I'm walking against an invisible wall/force field, lighting is broken, doing anything that involves physics like grabbing a shopping cart teleports me to narnia, everything stutters and basically every single aspect of the game/engine is broken in one way or another. This is the most utterly downgraded experience going from Early Access to 1.0 that I've ever seen. How can such a labor of love game be released in such a broken, degraded state? Did you accidentally push a pre-alpha build? Did you sell out to some brain-dead corpo publisher that made you do this to your beloved game? Either way, I cannot overstate how much this game has been utterly demolished in the 1.0 update. Pre-1.0 is still an amazing game.

[h1]《The Coin Game》：我有一座电玩城！[/h1] 　　相信大部分人对街机厅会有两种回忆：一种是古早的SNK街机时代，一群人挤在一台机器后面围观大神们拳皇PK又或者是三国战纪；另一种则是现代电玩城，在引入娃娃机、推币机、跳舞机等日韩美街机要素以后，逐渐发展起来的带妹圣地。当然，前一种意味着「Cheap」，最古早的一元10币时代甚至可以几块钱爽玩一下午，足够你硬堆硬币通关三国战纪；后一种则代表着大出血，可以说身上没带个百把块别轻易踏入电玩城——因为你永远不知道自己的抓娃娃技术会有多菜，以及妹妹期待的眼神撞上男人的面子是多么僵硬。 [h1][quote=] [table] [tr] [th] 欢迎关注 [b][u][i]U_U鉴赏家培养计划[/i][/u][/b][/th] [/tr] [tr] [th] 关注U_U鉴赏家，开启精彩游戏之旅。 [/th] [/tr] [/table] [/quote][/h1] 　　不过在《The coin game》里，你能够把在电玩城失去的通通补回来——都特喵的制作了一座「掌上电玩城」，那体验能不刺激嘛！从最基础的娃娃机、扭蛋机，到颇具赌博性质的推币机，以及一大堆我在现实里甚至连名字都叫不出来的新奇机型，都被容纳在了这部不到5GB的游戏之中，而它的售价仅仅不到50块钱！正经在电玩城里都不一定能让你抓上一个娃娃！（虽然不如直接买，但男人的面子更重要） 　　总之，作为一款「电玩城模拟器」，《The coin game》的游戏机容量应该是我见过同类型最丰富的，囊括了欧美霓虹的各种玩具，不仅是能让你过过手瘾，同时也在一定程度上起到了对电玩城的科普作用，可以说这就是Steam上最棒的电玩城模拟器。 　　当然，相比较其他模拟器游戏来说，《The coin game》还有些特殊之处：你以为除了在电玩城里嗨皮就无所事事了？那你就大错特错了！正如现实中一样，在电玩城是要花钱的，所以咱们需要通过打工赚钱来买票券，并且还需要关注自己的身体状况！可不能空着肚子去电玩城，必备的饮食少不了——而更让我惊讶的是，制作组真心想要就「资源管理」玩出点花样，这些饮食环节并不只是空架子、在电玩城里随便摆两个食品完事，而是真的在游戏里制作了一个超市让玩家自由购物！更离谱的是，其他模拟游戏在「地点切换」以及「日程结束」这两部分可能都随便丢个黑幕过场完事，而本作你不仅能驾驶各种交通工具从家里驶往电玩城，回家以后还可以在家里肆意造作、同时跟亲戚进行交流，正儿八经的生活模拟游戏！ 　　但显然，制作组并不打算为难玩家，制作了这么多额外内容只是为了炫耀技术力，如果你只想要体验街机模拟部分的话，也可以选择休闲模式来获取无限多的资金，不用再为生存而发愁。总之，无论从游戏性还是街机库存（50+款之多），《The coin game》都是你尝试「街机模拟」的不二之选。

been playing on and off for 5 years. never uninstalled the game or re downloaded. game is incredibly unique and i keep coming back from time to time. the devs really care and have been keeping up to date for years and still implement large updates to the game. truly a gem.