Hole.io may have the core gameplay feature of Donut County and was released first, Donut County’s story, characters and wonderful comedy will have you hooked just as it did me. READ MORE: The Medium Review (Xbox Series X) While the games may sound different, hole.io stole the core concept of the highly original Donut County and turned into an inexpensive ripoff, played by millions. The difference between the two is small and large simultaneously: as Donut County is strictly a story-driven game and hole.io is simply players eating things with holes, trying to become large enough to eat each other first. I decided to review Donut County recently since it came to Xbox Game Pass and think players should have the right to a chance to become fans of this crafty title while it’s available.ĭonut County is the incredibly cute and literal original hole game created by Ben Esposito and published by Annapurna Interactive.Īs weird as that may sound, Donut County literally invented the game Donut County before mobile games such as hole.io were released, mocking this game’s built-from-scratch design and core features.

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In between each of the puzzles, you’ll see a brief dialogue scene, which is fully subtitled, complete with speaker labels and color coded speaker indication, a black background for all text, easily legible text, and you have to press a button to advance the text.Īnd that’s all there is to it! See? Not much in the way of a review because this simple, delightful little game is very accessible without changing any settings. No need for Deaf accessibilty settings which is not something we ever imagined we’d be saying in a game review.

The game uses pure logic to solve the object eating puzzles. As the hole grows, you can eat up bigger and bigger things until nothing is left and everyone and everything is with you, far below the town, sitting around a campfire. Your goal? To grow the hole by swallowing everything. Or rather, a raccoon using an app to control a hole. So much so that there’s really not much to review.

Donut County is a remarkably simple (but very very fun) game to play.

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