Cupiclaw blends roguelike, deck-building gameplay with a claw machine for a chaotic good time

You ever lose your engagement ring in a claw machine? No? Me both. However in Cupiclaw, a “roguelike deck-building claw machine recreation” from French developer Julien Tran, you’ll play as a person named Morris who misplaced his engagement ring and must furiously play a very costly claw machine to win it again.

Cupiclaw will not be out simply but, however Tran has a demo accessible on Steam, the place you’ll have the ability to play by 5 ranges. Principally, the gist of Cupiclaw is that you simply’ve bought to play the claw machine and win prizes to afford to maneuver on to the following claw machine — then hold doing that till you’re capable of finding Morris’ ring. Easy, proper? Effectively, Cupiclaw is definitely fairly laborious: The roguelike, deck-building features of the sport imply there’s technique each in what prizes you go after and within the new prizes you’ll be able to select in between every spherical, that are then added to the claw machine. Every prize has its personal attribute that adjustments the way you’ll play. For example, there’s a gem you’ll be able to add to the machine that reinforces the prize payout for all teddy bears you accumulate. However if you happen to don’t accumulate any teddy bears, you’re successfully shedding out on tons of cash.

There are additionally unhealthy prizes to keep away from, like a heck of loads of soda cans that made it into the machine. You’ll lose an growing quantity of cash as you alter claw machines. There are different objects that take away factors, too — so it’s worthwhile to steadiness the technique of amassing good objects with avoiding the unhealthy ones, however generally you’ve bought to sacrifice some factors due to the velocity of all of it.

On the finish of a spherical, which takes mere minutes, you’ll transfer on if you happen to’ve amassed sufficient cash to pay for the following button push. In any other case, Morris drops to the bottom in misery, and also you’ve bought to start out over. Due to the roguelike nature of all of it, Cupiclaw may be performed endlessly — and it’s at all times totally different. I’ve had a blast making an attempt totally different combos to amass essentially the most quantity of cash. And, to date, I’ve not but reached Morris’ engagement ring — or the tip of the 5 ranges.

Tran hasn’t mentioned when Cupiclaw might be launched, however the demo itself is sufficient enjoyable for some time.