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

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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 just isn’t out simply but, however Tran has a demo out there on Steam, the place you’ll be capable of play by 5 ranges. Mainly, the gist of Cupiclaw is that you simply’ve obtained to play the claw machine and win prizes to afford to maneuver on to the subsequent claw machine — then hold doing that till you’re capable of finding Morris’ ring. Easy, proper? Properly, Cupiclaw is definitely fairly arduous: The roguelike, deck-building facets of the sport imply there’s technique each in what prizes you go after and within the new prizes you may select in between every spherical, that are then added to the claw machine. Every prize has its personal attribute that modifications the way you’ll play. As an illustration, there’s a gem you may add to the machine that reinforces the prize payout for all teddy bears you acquire. However should you don’t acquire any teddy bears, you’re successfully shedding out on tons of cash.

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

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On the finish of a spherical, which takes mere minutes, you’ll transfer on should you’ve amassed sufficient cash to pay for the subsequent button push. In any other case, Morris drops to the bottom in misery, and also you’ve obtained to begin over. Due to the roguelike nature of all of it, Cupiclaw could be performed endlessly — and it’s all the time totally different. I’ve had a blast attempting totally different mixtures to amass probably the most quantity of cash. And, to this point, I’ve not but reached Morris’ engagement ring — or the top of the 5 ranges.

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

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