CloverPit Review: Let's Go To Hell Together, It's So Charming

 By Jonathan Bilski

Gotta pay the debt, gotta boost the bells, why are these drawers all bloody! Wait, how long have I been playing? CloverPit is a new rogue-lite from Future Friends Games, which omniosuly appears on screen with a musical tinge as you start the game to warn you, "Uh-oh." Totally addictive, just like real gambling with graphics from a PS2 game, you'll want to keep playing even after falling to your death multiple times.

 

A slot machine with so much more going for it. CloverPit's game/story has you trapped in a cell with a floor that can open up at the bottom and send you straight down. To get out of this weird dire you've go to play a slot machine and get matching patterns of different symbols.You know... like a regular slot machine. It sounds kind of boring until you get the look of the game. And...how creepy it is your trapped in this room.

 

Like out of a horror movie, or the coolest horror-themed one room apartment in NYC, you're in a "stylish" place you shouldn't be. You've got an ATM built into the wall to pay back your debt that goes up every round and give you some interest back. Posters explaining in real time how your odds have changed and a mini market of strangeness behind you. 

 

Someone cracked open a glossary from Katamari Damacy up in here as you get a huge collection of charms to boost and change your score. It really reminded me of the collection section from Kamari game where you can see each an every item with a footnote. This game has that too, see below. You earn tickets to buy the charms and you'll need to figure out the best way to use the charms together to get out. Love all their designs and different abilties. These disgusting and cool looking doodads sit upon your shelf next to your slot machine and I kind of want them all like Labubus. Little dolls, chili peppers, weird demonic statues and many, many others charms are there to help you. And, would look great on your desk.

  
Visually the game has a retro early computer game vibe that easily could have been made to have looked as realistic as possible, but in no way would have been as appealing as it is right now.

 

Some of them can only be used so much before they expire and when they expire from use or are thrown out to make room, the game makes you feel it. Not sure if there meant to be alive, but everything bleeds when it's gotten rid of and makes a nice little reminder squelching sound as it goes.

 

Trying to figure out the best combo with them and unlocking more make the game a treat for the rogue-liter in you.

 

Game-play may vary based on what you unlock or choose to do, but basically you have three rounds
before having to reach a deadly deadline. Not enough coins, go in the hole! You'll have three rounds of spins of three to seven (your choice) and you'll try and reach the amount needed to live.

 

Now you can earn more money and pay right away for an award bonus like more tickets for the charm shop or bide your time and earn more for later deadlines.

 

Each deadline gives also gives you a phone call that gives you some kind of bonus or can help your
game and a restock of the charm store.

When you finally hit a Jackpot and the variations on it, that dopamine hits high. You'll just want to earn more. 

 

For this review I was totally addicted to this game once I started playing. After getting back home from a party and having a free day I totally got lost in it for hours over the weekend. After each death and a new mechanic being added I wanted a little more to finally unlock that door! More unlocks are just around the corner, you just gotta keep playing and I guess sacrificing charms. Those charms are just so charming and so is CloverPit, grab it now!

*Hopefully the game is success and Fangamer or some other company makes a CloverPit charm bracelet and keychain. 

 

CloverPit is out now on Steam.

10% discount until October 10

 

Game provided by publisher for review purposes