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 just isn’t out simply but, however Tran has a demo obtainable on Steam, the place you’ll be capable to play by way of 5 ranges. Principally, the gist of Cupiclaw is that you just’ve received to play the claw machine and win prizes to afford to maneuver on to the subsequent claw machine — then preserve doing that till you’re capable of finding Morris’ ring. Easy, proper? Effectively, Cupiclaw is definitely fairly laborious: The roguelike, deck-building elements of the sport imply there’s technique each in what prizes you go after and within the new prizes you possibly can 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. For example, there’s a gem you possibly can add to the machine that enhances the prize payout for all teddy bears you acquire. However in the event you don’t acquire 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 plenty of soda cans that made it into the machine. You’ll lose an rising quantity of cash as you modify claw machines. There are different objects that take away factors, too — so it’s essential to stability the technique of accumulating good objects with avoiding the unhealthy ones, however typically you’ve received to sacrifice some factors due to the pace of all of it.

On the finish of a spherical, which takes mere minutes, you’ll transfer on in the event 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 received to start out over. Due to the roguelike nature of all of it, Cupiclaw could be performed endlessly — and it’s at all times completely different. I’ve had a blast attempting completely different mixtures to amass essentially 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 might be launched, however the demo itself is sufficient enjoyable for some time.