Raccoin, the 'Coin Pusher Roguelite,' is a lot deeper than it seems

In our most recent Nextfest bonanza, I highlighted a pretty neat game called Raccoin. On the surface, it's a "Balatro-like" (which basically just means it has multipliers with Big Number goals stuck on each round) that shifts the focus from poker hands to ... a coin pusher machine. You know, those things that look mesmerizing when going to visit Charles "Entertainment" Cheese in his "pizza"-infested rat palace, but really just exist to steal your coins and stack them onto the pile of hubris created by fools of the past and, now, you.

Well this coin pusher is a little different. And Raccoin takes what I initially thought would be a fun "number get big when I click" game, and turns it into a real thinker. And with one win under my belt: I'm way into it.

Raccoin starts pretty simple, but it very quickly starts to ramp up the intensity of just what exactly is happening on the board. The cabinet consists of a few moving pieces, the most important of which are the coin injector slots on the side, the specialty coin injector in the middle, and, the star of the show: the pusher in the back.