Donut County Reviews

Donut County is ranked in the 67th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Recommended
Aug 31, 2018

Short and simple, Donut County is absolutely sublime.

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83 / 100
Aug 28, 2018

Donut County is a short, entertaining tale of a trash panda who just wants a sweet quadcopter.

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IGN
Top Critic
7.8 / 10.0
Aug 27, 2018

It may be a very short diversion, but Donut County is a delight. It's absolutely brimming with personality, has a killer soundtrack and visual aesthetic, and is based on an irresistible gameplay hook. I'd have loved more, but I guess I'll just settle for playing through it again.

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Aug 27, 2018

The perfect way to pass a couple of hours, but it will leave you craving more game and a box of Krispy Kremes.

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7.5 / 10.0
Aug 27, 2018

Donut County is as simple as it is charming, and the story conceit pulling you along is light and enjoyable

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Polygon
Top Critic
Unscored
Aug 27, 2018

The world is your playground in Donut County, and yet it's the most wholesome way to see everything come crashing down.

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6 / 10
Aug 27, 2018

Donut County is high on charm but short on substance; a game about holes that doesn't quite feel whole.

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Aug 27, 2018

Katamari-likes are not quite a genre, but Donut County makes a case that it should be. Its inspiration is clear, and it takes the toy-like nature of its vision farther with a resonate message at its center. Moving around a hole and consuming all the low-poly things that lie in your path never really gets old from a mechanical perspective, even if the scripted scenarios do upon a replay from its level select. Donut County may not only make you hungry for donuts, it'll make you hungry for supporting your local family-run shops too.

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8 / 10.0
Aug 31, 2018

Donut County is as charming and funny as it is inventive and beautiful. It excels at what it sets out to do --there's never been a better hole simulator in video game history. But underneath its colorful scenery and intuitive gameplay is an experience that feels like its inches away from true greatness.

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Aug 27, 2018

For a game about garbage, its wholesomeness and "holesomeness" make it the very opposite of trash.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 3, 2018

Donut County is a fun, fresh and original experience that knos how to take advantage of a very simple and limited set of mechanics. Sure it has some flaws but, like a real donut, I don´t care as long as the result is delicious. And it trully is!.

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6.2 / 10.0
Sep 2, 2018

Donut County sports a rich and lovable cast, but its whole gameplay idea is too shallow.

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7 / 10.0
Sep 14, 2018

A nice little game, with emphasis on the little. You'll have a great time in its couple of hours of quirky gameplay, but that might not be enough for some, considering the price.

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83 / 100
Aug 27, 2018

The story was kind of wacky, it made me laugh, and it had a kind of moral to it in the end. It's not heavy moralizing, but it makes you think about whether you really should be tossing out so much trash for a donut hole to collect. I wished the story was longer and the game had more things to do besides capturing things in a hole. But the story was lighthearted and the gameplay was fun. If you don't have high expectations, I think you'll find Donut County is a nice diversion.

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Sep 1, 2018

Donut County has a great art style, hilarious writing, and unique gameplay, but it's too short and its gameplay never evolves far beyond its core concept.

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95 / 100
Sep 3, 2018

Laser-focused and brimming with charm, Donut County is one of the year's best experiences. While brief, its laugh-out-loud sense of humor and laid-back, tactile gameplay combine precisely to create a game like no other. You'll come for its physics based puzzle-solving, but you'll stay for its quirky cast of characters and world. This is not a game to be missed.

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Sep 12, 2018

Donut County is, for the most part, an incredibly fun experience from start to finish.

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Aug 29, 2018

With an odd cast and strange situations, this puzzle game allows you to victimise the users of a donut delivery app by gradually swallowing up all of their possessions

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80 / 100
Sep 13, 2018

Donut County is a wholly enjoyable romp that can be powered through in an afternoon, but it's worth going back to try and find some of it's hidden or not so hidden secrets, even if there are only a few of them to begin with.

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