If ever the bugs contaminated the soup, I’d have to start the process all over again. While it might have seemed straightforward, there were bugs I needed to avoid and a simple recipe I needed to follow. At one point, I needed to fill my hole with soup and feed it to a bird to progress through the stage.

Thankfully, Donut County has a bit more to offer than simply eating objects, as the game injects different lighthearted puzzles as you progress through the stages. These stages start off pretty simplistic, requiring you to start off small by collecting whatever’s on-screen until you become big enough to consume buildings. Their quips and puns had me giggling from time to time, although I did find myself skipping some of their conversations to get straight into the action. Donut County is packed with some hilarious dialogue, and while you might just be controlling a giant hole, the game more than makes up for it with its cast of quirky characters. The stragglers have formed some sort of underground camp, and most of the story comes from their witty exchanges. BK’s joined by a cast of other quirky characters –all of which are his unwilling victims– who share their stories on how their homes or establishments were swallowed up by the ground. Donut County plays out in a flashback sequence, with most of the town already ravaged by the donut destruction these holes have caused. While his job should be sending out sweet treats, he ends up deploying these holes to his customers that end up causing a whole lot of trouble in the long run.

What might sound like a tedious and even boring experience is instead handled in such a way that it makesfor an interesting and puzzling adventure.ĭonut County centers around a raccoon named BK who works as a donut delivery guy. Instead of managing a cast of crazy characters, players are tasked with moving around from area to area, swallowing everything as an ever-expanding chasm. Out of all of the many whimsical and fantastical creatures and characters you could create in a video game, developer Ben Esposito did a complete 180 and made a playable hole in Donut County.

Donut county game playthrough