RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike Review (PC)

Ever since Balatro released a few years ago, many indie games have tried to implement the roguelike formula in a creative way, and RACCOIN is definitely one of the latest titles attempting to do such a thing. Yet the thing that sets it apart is its unique focus on simulating a coin pusher arcade machine.

It also offers a very seamless gameplay. The idea is that you want to shoot out coins onto the top of the moving platform. As it slides back, it pushes against the rear wall of the machine, thus sliding some coins forward which will drop and fill the space in front. You will score points when new coins push the other coins into the pit.

What this means is that RACCOIN is basically all about flicking coins from the right or left side of the machine and then seeing if the other coins are falling or not. At first, this doesn’t sound very exciting, mainly because it appears like a very boring thing to do. But there is an upside here, and that’s the fact that you have a...