The Coin Game

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• Not recommended Posted March 19, 2026 on Steam This is the worst 1.0 release I've ever seen. I don't know what happened here. The publisher locked their Discord before release, too, which makes it look even worse. There is literally nothing in this game that works correctly now. Including stuff that was fine in Early Access. Just a few of the problems: The physics are busted which has broken almost all of the ticket games. The coinpushers, for instance, don't have physics at all so the coins just kind of melt into each other. This is the worst problem by far. These games worked before today. There's terrible screentearing issues unless you force vsync at the driver level The survival mode is nearly unplayable and even if you manage to push through it, you can complete it in a couple of hours. Some of the jobs you need to do to make money just flat-out don't work, like babysitting where you can't interact with the "babies." The movement is screwed up to the point where it's impossible to walk up stairs or slight inclines. You can't use the vehicles because the physics make them uncontrollable and objects pop up in the environment directly in front of you, regardless of graphics settings You randomly get stuck inside the games with no way to quit them except to shut the whole game down. Your inventory in survival mode will randomly get wiped. On and on. Most of this stuff was totally fine before today. I can only assume that anybody leaving a positive review at this point hasn't actually played it post 1.0 launch. Do not buy this game in its present state.
• Not recommended Posted April 5, 2026 on Steam This recent update now [b]requires[/b] me to agree to my data being collected and sold? Tricking the players who already bought your game into giving you permission to sell their private information and data is absolutely insane. The future is so dystopian.
• Not recommended Posted April 12, 2026 on Steam [h1]For the love of god, play this on the pre-1.0 version[/h1] You can switch to pre-1.0 "legacy" version by right clicking the game -> properties -> game versions and betas. [h1]What the hell happened?[/h1] This game's survival mode used to be one of the most fun time-burners out there, but whatever the developers did in the updates in the last year or so completely broke the game with 1.0 - I'm talking about very basic things - walking is broken, at times it's like I'm walking against an invisible wall/force field, lighting is broken, doing anything that involves physics like grabbing a shopping cart teleports me to narnia, everything stutters and basically every single aspect of the game/engine is broken in one way or another. This is the most utterly downgraded experience going from Early Access to 1.0 that I've ever seen. How can such a labor of love game be released in such a broken, degraded state? Did you accidentally push a pre-alpha build? Did you sell out to some brain-dead corpo publisher that made you do this to your beloved game? Either way, I cannot overstate how much this game has been utterly demolished in the 1.0 update. Pre-1.0 is still an amazing game.
• Not recommended Posted May 14, 2026 on Steam - Got excited for 1.0 'official' release - Reinstalled game and read update log - Game had to be rebuilt from the ground up after 7+ years of development - Launch into game expecting some minor bugs, but an overall functional game - Start new 'Survival Mode' file - Physics are even worse than before; newspapers I take out of my inventory to deliver clip through the ground, making me have to double-back to the newspaper stand to get more - Encounter more problems the more I play - problems that were never prevalent during the Early Access builds - Uninstall game; come back a month later - Bug fixes were pushed a few days after 1.0 release; receive false sense of hope - Reinstall game again, give it another chance - Play one day of Survival Mode - 'Dunko' Plush listed as 'daily hot item' at pawn shop - Spend all in-game day and most of my money on Dunko game to win prizes to sell - Go to pawn shop to sell; hit 'Inventory' button - Game responds with some message about "Closing the leaderboards before I can open my inventory" - Leaderboards absolutely NOWHERE on the screen, nor am I even around any arcade games - Try (and fail) to get the inventory to work by playing more games - Decide that it's not worth it and cut my losses (with the Dunko plush and the game) I HATE making negative reviews, but I'm hoping me laying out my past couple of experiences with this game will deter people from purchasing (at least for right now). This game somehow got more broken in its official release than the Early Access builds. From what I understand, the publisher rushed the release (typical) and pushed out a game that had to be rebuilt from the ground up before properly playtesting and fixing bugs. Too many small problems in the game that add to your growing frustrations with it. I was willing to try and give it another shot, but after the game locked me out of my inventory, that was the last straw for me. I won't sit here and say "The game's been abandoned! The dev doesn't care anymore!", but I'm not sugar-coating it, either. Straight-up: this game DOES NOT have any business being a '1.0 official release', nor does it deserve your money. With that said, I can't say whether or not it will get fixed in the future. The dev does seem to care, and they do seem to communicate with the community (albeit, sporadically and inconsistantly), but that doesn't guarantee anything. My recommendation? Skip it. Wishlist it if you really want to, but as it stands now, the '1.0 release' is far worse than any of the Early Access builds.
• Not recommended Posted March 20, 2026 on Steam What are this new terms and service? "Kwalee does not have to provide maintenance or support." and class action waivers?! Data collection? Can't even launch the game without accepting the terms and service! There's been no updates or communication from the dev or team since the 1.0 launch. They locked all discussions for bug reports and are removing posts regarding broken physics, missing content, and more. Don't get the game. Pre-1.0 This was THE game I recommended. The games were as accurate as you could get them to a real arcade. Now they've removed "Birthday mode" (freeplay) and completely changed everything. Not even the coin pushers work. I'm heartbroken. I hope it gets fixed. If not, well... I guess my favorite game is gone.
• Recommended Posted December 29, 2025 on Steam So this game starts out very underwhelming. You're in a little two-room arcade, one room has a random-interval animatronic band show, the other has a few common "whatever" arcade games you see a lot of in real life. The game is a bit of a Unity flip, you think you wasted your money, and you step outside, supposing you'll check out the island before moving on. Then, you find out this game is massive. There's an entire island you're free to explore. Multiple arcades of varying scales and qualities, go-karts, minigolf, a water park, a carnival, all kinds of fun stuff. So what this game is, in secret, is a survival game with a unique premise, at least if you choose to play on Survival Mode. You can go to the Pawn Shop to sell your prizes for money, and you must use said money to stay alive. You can go to all sorts of places, from a dollar store to a mall, to buy food and equipment, but you're stuck with the restrictions of being a 12 year old let loose: no actual job, no stable income. You can babysit, you can mow lawns, and they're incredibly-boring jobs, so you tend to prefer just getting good at arcade games, winning prizes, and keeping the cashflow coming. Moreover, this isn't JUST an Arcade/Carnival sim. You can do all KINDS of stuff. You can ride the bus and enjoy the island, you can go gambling with scratch off cards, you can even try to save money on food by playing that stupid Taco Bell coin drop game. The coin game really is just a survival game where you need to survive on literal scraps of money using fun, quirky methods. Overall? Fantastic little game. Maybe not for everyone, but the perfect "I don't know what to play today" kind of game.