History VideoGame / DonutCounty

The game was released on August 28, 2018, for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG]], UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and iOS. Ports to the UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch followed on December 18, 2018.

* PortableHole: The App: The Game.

* ItsAllAboutMe: BK is selfish and reluctant to admit to his faults in almost every situation. At the beginning of the game, he’s more concerned about his quadcopter being destroyed by Mira rather than him destroying his friends’ homes and trapping everyone in a large hole.

* ObliviouslyEvil: At first, [=BK=] doesn't understand why everybody's so upset that he got the entire town underground, as he sees no problem with that situation.

* PlayableEpilogue: The "Aftermath" stage [[spoiler: which shows that all the characters are back above the ground and are rebuilding the area.]]

** [[spoiler: it says something that his first apology is mentioning just doing his job and that it was an evil job is considered "close enough" by Mira. Obviously he should have known better, but in the end Mira knows BK enough to know he's single minded.]]

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: While she didn't know the true nature of the holes or where they led, Mira knew about the holes that BK was making even before the game started and felt guilty about some of BK's deliveries (particularly Coco's).]]
* SkewedPriorities: At the beginning of the game, [=BK=] is more upset about Mira breaking his quadcopter than the entire town being stuck underground because of him.

* TacticalSuicideBoss: [[spoiler:If the King Quadcopter didn’t fire the [[StuffBlowingUp small mines]], it would be impossible to defeat.]]

* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Trash King uses a trail of donuts to lure BK’s hole into a cage. The trap is pretty obvious and there’s no way to avoid it as it’s the only way to advance the story.

* VillainProtagonist: For a majority of the game, you play as BK while he makes deliveries. He initially doesn’t see anything wrong with his job and doesn’t admit that he destroyed Donut County with his deliveries. Not to mention that he’s far more concerned with Mira destroying his quadcopter than ruining his friends’ homes. This changes later when Mira finally gets through to him.

* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Near the end, the Trash King proposes to BK to join him by offering him all sorts of benefits, including a new quadcopter. BK seemingly takes the bait, but it turns out he’s still loyal to Mira and Possum.]]

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's implied though not outright stated that Donut County's some odd suburb of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Having both deserts and beaches within reasonable driving distance is one tip-off (including real-life town and national park Joshua Tree, which is about 2 hours away from the greater Los Angeles area), but the big ones include [[spoiler: Pup's hot air balloon (and a Donut County delivery truck with a flat tire) explicitly causing bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 405 Expressway]], and [[spoiler: the main signs of the raccoons' takeover being them changing the Hollywood sign to read 'Raccoon' and converting Griffith Observatory into their trash-can-styled headquarters.]]

[[TimeSkip Cut to six weeks later]] and the whole County's stuck in a cavern nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine feet underground. Turns out BK's been sucking everyone and everything down [[PortableHole remote-controlled sink-holes]] using a tablet app under the guise of the donut shop's delivery app. Apparently, the raccoons have been staging a covert invasion to acquire non-raccoon-kinds vast quantities of "trash" (read: everything man-made that isn't nailed down... and [[UpToEleven everything that is]]!). Admittedly, [[HeroicComedicSociopath BK didn't really know what he was doing, he just wanted a shiny new quadcopter]]. So now it's up to Mira, BK, and the rest of [[EccentricTownsfolk Donut County's colorful denizens]] to find a way out of the holes, turn the tables on the Raccoons, and get their town back. And maybe [[NeverMyFault get BK to admit that, yes, this is totally his fault]].

* ObliviouslyEvil: At first, [=BK=] doesn't understand why everybody's so upset that he got the entire town underground.

* ItsAllAboutMe: BK is selfish and reluctant to admit to his faults in almost every situation.

* InsistentTerminology: 'Delivering Donuts,' as BK calls creatimg holes around Donut County.

So, it all starts as a normal day in [[TitleDrop Donut County]]. The sun's shining, the neighbor's honking their head off as usual and [[OnlySaneMan Mira's]] texting her best raccoon buddy/co-worker, BK, all about it. BK, wishing she'd come into work at the [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Donut County donut shop of Donut County]] sooner, decides to [[InsistentTerminology deliver the neighbor a donut]].

* CreativeClosingCredits: [[spoiler:The game ends with a sequence from the perspective of BK's quadcopter, which the player can fly around Donut County and see how the cast is rebuilding after the incident. The game's credits are hidden around the area for the player to look for as long as they want -- afterwards, choosing to "power down" the quadcopter will take the player to the traditional credits.]]

* InMediasRes: The majority of the game features most of the townspeople trapped underground recounting their misfortunes after ordering a donut from BK.
* InsistentTerminology: 'Delivering Donuts' as BK put it.

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: While she didn't know the true nature of the holes or where they lead, Mira knew about the holes that BK was making even before the game started and felt guilty about some of BK's deliveries (particularly Coco's).]]
* ShoutOut: When Mira asks BK for his tablet's password, his first guess is "0451," which is the old Looking Glass Studios door code from ''Deus Ex'' and many subsequent games. The actual password is "b0nkeykong," which is the fan name for a particular competitive team format in ''League of Legends''.

* UnusualEuphemism: The mailman constantly honking on his scooter is "honking unbelievable", as BK puts it. Also, "delivering donuts" is used as a euphemism for "swallowing things with holes".

* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Mira works for BK, but since the business consists entirely of him sending holes to people who order donuts it's unclear what she does.

''Donut County'' is an indie puzzle game developed by Ben Esposito and published by Annapurna Interactive, that kind of plays like a reversed ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy''. You start by deploying the hole and moving it around to collect small objects (rocks, cell phones, bugs, etc.) with each object increasing the circumference of the hole until you're horking down whole high-rises. The premise starts simply until you need to manipulate specific types of objects (water, fire, fireworks, etc.) to break things down into manageable pieces.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Mira has dark skin and no other real distinguishing racial characteristics, or even other humans to be compared to.

* OnlySaneMan: Mira in the present underground situation. She’s aware of BK’s actions and is rightfully upset that he destroyed the whole town.

* WreakingHavok: Objects collide with each other and you often encounter stacks of objects.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's implied though not outright stated that Donut County's some odd suburb of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Having both deserts and beaches within reasonable driving distance is one tip-off, but the big ones include [[spoiler: Pup's hot air balloon (and a Donut County delivery truck with a flat tire) explicitly causing bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 405 Expressway]], and [[spoiler: the main signs of the raccoons' takeover being them changing the Hollywood sign to read 'Raccoon' and converting Griffith Observatory into their trash-can-styled headquarters.]]

* JumpScare: A rather tame case, but the cat in the abandoned house will occasionally jump out with a yowl and out your light out.

* EasterEgg: The Trashopedia descriptions hide two hints for special interactions. One gives you a soup recipe that's good enough to make the bird cry, and another gives you a code for the grabber machine in the Raccoon HQ lab that unlocks a treasure vault.

* TacticalSuicideBoss: [[spoiler:If the King Quadcopter didn’t fire the small mines, it would be impossible to defeat.]]

* ExplosiveBreeder: Get a male and female adult bunnies to both fall into a hole, and the game will waste no time in letting you know just ''what'' they end up doing down there, eventually resulting in a literal ''eruption'' of baby bunnies.

* UnusualEuphemism: The mailman constantly honking on his scooter is "honking unbelievable", as BK puts it.

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