Donut County is a wacky physics game.
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Donut County review — It’s fun to swallow the world with a donut hole

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Donut County is a crazy video game where you position a donut hole under objects and they fall into it. The more items you collect, the bigger the donut hole becomes until you can suck whole buildings into it.

It reminds me of the Keita Takahashi’s zany 2004 video game Katamari Damacy, where you roll a giant ball over a bunch of objects and collect them as they stuck to it. When I first saw Ben Esposito’s Donut County at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2017, it made me laugh. Now it debuts tomorrow on the PlayStation 4, Steam, GOG, Mac App store, and the iOS App Store.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.