- A new roguelike indie game has been released
- It’s called Raccoon and is based on coin pusher arcade games
- You collect special coins with a variety of powerful effects
A new indie game just launched, and I can already see it’s going to take over my life. Called Raccoonit perfectly captures all the fun of arcade coin pusher games without emptying your wallet.
Available now on PC via Steam, Raccoon is described as a “roguelike deckbuilder”, although instead of cards you collect special coins and super-powerful prizes that can be combined in interesting ways. There are more than 150 different coins to try in the coin pusher game, each with its own unique effects to master.
So far I’ve encountered coins that form massive towers, others that duplicate themselves or suck up surrounding coins into huge vortices, and more. Regardless of the effect, they’re all incredibly fun to use thanks to the physics that give each coin a nice weighty look and some very satisfying sound effects.
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Sending out multiple special coins at the same time also has some surprising results. I hit one bomb coin with another that increases the size of everything it touches, leading to a giant explosion that practically cleared the entire machine. It’s still early days in my coin collecting adventures, but I imagine there will be quite a bit of strategy to wisely using these special coins to maximize my high scores.
There are also 15 power-up items (which have similar effects), six playable characters with their own unique coins, and eight difficulty levels. Although much of the game involves reaching a certain score to progress, there is an endless endless mode for those who just can’t get enough.
Oh, and how could I not mention that you can play as a cute raccoon?
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