The Coin Game

We Need Chinese!!!!!!

I bought this game right before it left early access. Im glad I did because now I understand how GARBAGE the 1.0 release is. Firstly, the performance, in EA, I was getting upwards of 250 FPS, that has gone down to 200, and the game looks the same. The main offender was the Steam Deck, it is "Unsupported", but it did run well, 60+ FPS, native controller support, it was good. But now, 20 FPS on a good day, broken UI menus. Secondly, the physics. The EA physics were great, now they feel like the unity default, with coins that vibrate and meld into one mass. For a physics based game, it sucks. Thirdly, no content in the 1.0! No new machines, just some survival mode updates, and ruining the UI and physics. If you want to play the good version of the game, Right click on the game in the side menu, press Properties > Game Versions and Betas > legacy. Game: 9/10 1.0 Update: -1/10

The game is fun but it is a glitchy mess. Your bike can hurt you when you dismount. You can get stuck on the smart watch screen and lose progress. Items fall through the ground. The babysitting job can glitch and have uncleanable dirt. This game was not ready for full release.

ok i really want to respect the dev(s?) because this game is pretty great. i love life sims so being able to just exist in a world like this is goofy and fun. but jesus christ the audio system is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. your bike, the main method of transportation, isnt tied to any of the audio sliders in-game. i had to turn the entire games audio to 5 percent just for the bike to not drown out everything else. its insane that after 6 years of development (?), the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bike isnt even tied to master volume? what the hell? while im complaining, no borderless option either? and you press esc to open the menu, then you can open options. you can leave the options menu with esc, but you cant leave the other menu with it? its little things like this that add to the jank, and i cant understand how its still like this after all this time

Something seems, off? The Physics don't seem right at all. The coins for the coin pusher games just seem to melt into each other and not push things. Even the ones that have bills dropped in, just melt into the other coins and bills, instead of pushing. The UI seems unresponsive, lack of unique games (each 'different' type of claw machine game is still just a claw machine! Same with the coin pushers!) The collecting card mechanism for the pushers seems odd. Why can't I keep em til I get a whole set? Lots of, weird oddities that isn't what I expected for a 1.0 release. I was expecting more polish, not a downgrade from a lot of the things I saw from pre-release.

The usual tale of an early access title: years of slow progress, developer burns out and opts to get help from a publisher, and then shortly after the game suddenly releases 1.0 for the sake of being 1.0, despite the game still being in a very rough state. Next up will be DLCs galore to milk those who stick around. As for the game itself: it's a solid "meh." It's fun for an hour or two, definately not worth the full price, maybe worth it on a sale. The other games in this niche do the virtual arcade thing much better and are much more... stable. EDIT: With recent communication from the developer, the publisher did indeed rush this to 1.0 far too early. I hate being proven correct; I love weird little indie games and it sucks that the gaming industry is so determined to put short term gains over healthy projects that pay out over a longer period.

Feels awful leaving a negative review for such a labour of love from what I assume is a solo dev but man, the 1.0 release just absolutely broke everything. It was always a bit janky but now it is straight up broken, and there's a lot of questionable new design decisions that neuter any fun you could have here (All of the arcades are locked in Survival mode by default, meaning you have to do days of literal chores to get access to the GAMES, in this COIN GAME). I'm sure it'll get fixed eventually, but it's disappointing at the moment

At its heart, this game is pretty fun and decent. It's a jank kinda immersive sim around playing arcade classics that is mostly pretty fun. However, with this survival mode, this game shouldn't have been released as 1.0. It needs a little more time to cook. One of the basics I'd like to see is the ability to actually retain your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ inventory when you quit the game. I spent some time last session grinding tickets out and filling my inventory with prizes to save and sell for next session, including a 1st place trophy for the kart racing. I open the game today and this is all gone. I've still got the golf cart I just bought and a bag of cheesy poofs, but just losing everything else I had has really taken my motivation to keep playing. All the other bugs I could deal with, like the fuel meter on the golf kart just straight up lying and leaving you stranded, or getting on your bike to get sucked underground and then you reset and it warps your bike miles away but leaves you stranded where you are, or all the other racers on the kart race getting into a line so that they're impossible to pass without throwing your time and wasting the last few minutes, or the claw in the claw machine somehow finding its way into a different claw machine, causing it to constantly spit out prizes, or random robots warping into you and around you at light speed for seemingly no reason, quickly draining your health. All this ♥♥♥♥ I can deal with and add to the charm of this game, but losing all my progress? That's not to mention the performance. It doesn't matter what quality the game is running at, I will get a consistent 70fps on my 9070XT max and this will make my computer sound like it's taking off into space. I'm not sure why, most the game looks simple and I don't remember early access being anything like this, not even when I was running this game on a 960. And you know what would be nice to a game in full 1.0 release? A frame rate limit option would be nice so that the main menu doesn't try to run at 500fps, or the ability to change your screen resolution. All things I would expect on a full release. Put this game back in, it ain't done yet.