Stealing trash is all enjoyable and video games till somebody loses a city, as Donut County will display when it in the end launches on August 28th. Greedy racoons with remote-controlled holes are sucking up trash, see, however we get a bit carried away with it and… seems, trash pandas could be a actual pressure of nature once they’re bored on the bathroom fidgeting with their iPad. The curious object-swallowing puzzler is coming from Ben Esposito, of Arcane Kids fame, and a brand new trailer beneath introduces us to the results of this mischief.
While I’ve not performed Donut County but myself, what I’ve seen jogs my memory a little bit of the playful puzzling of Vectorpark video games like Windosill, poking and feeling our solution to options. And if you’d like trash-stealing city mammals, Jazztronauts for Garry’s Mod is coming tonight to ship us ram-raiding by means of player-made ranges.
Donut County has modified a good bit since we first heard of it as Kachina in 2013, switching its subject as well as its name. But why raccoons? Esposito defined in a PlayStation Blog post accompanying as we speak’s announcement:
“My first condo in Los Angeles was principally run by raccoons. They had been sleeping within the laundry machines, stealing pool floats, and howling from rooftops. The raccoons stored to themselves normally, so I wasn’t fearful of them till one evening once I heard a chittering sound from proper above my head. I froze. Four ft away on the rooftop a raccoon stared at me, lifeless eyed, chewing on a battery. He was consuming the battery. That was once I knew – raccoons can’t be stopped.
“Until then, Donut County didn’t really feel proper – it was sort of merciless since you had been taking part in as an evil pressure of nature: a creepy, harmful gap. Since you performed because the villain I knew I wanted a personality who was dumb and wished to steal individuals’s trash. It was staring me proper within the face. Chewing on a D battery.”
Donut County is coming to Windows and Mac by way of Steam and GOG on August 28th, priced at $13. It’s revealed by Annapurna Interactive, the oldsters who additionally helped convey us What Remains Of Edith Finch and Gorogoa.
Disclosure: Arcane Kids as soon as DJed a set at a Wild Rumpus occasion I helped run.
