Just as a heads up and warning – this article will include some images and mentions of various “satanic” related phrases. While this article is based on a game, some readers may find the content triggering or offensive to their beliefs.
Continuing the Roguelike madness that has been this year, we gained a new game based on a casino roulette game. CloverPit is a new roguelike indie game from the developers Panik Arcade. It’s a new game following the gambling trend, similar to Balatro, and adding a devil’s twist to it as you are forced to play a roulette machine to pay off a debt that keeps increasing. As the game says; Let’s go Gambling!.
CloverPit
Now, CloverPit includes a lot but is mainly straightforward; you are to gamble with a roulette machine and stack the odds against yourself to earn your freedom or die trying. While I say “earn your freedom,” there isn’t anything setting you free besides death or divine intervention. This game starts off with you waking up in a locked box with the Roulette machine. The odds of what you can roll are plastered on both sides of the walls, and you have a machine that displays your current debt.
For the debt, you start off with 75 coins. You earn coins by playing slots and then send portions of what you owe to the debt machine to stave off the murder. You will also earn tickets that you can spend on trinkets to affect your spins and try to get the odds in your favor. You get three rounds per deadline to meet said deadline, and every deadline you meet, the goal will be increased.
If you complete a deadline early, you get a bonus of coins and tickets. You also earn interest as you give coins, increasing the amount taken from you, but also what you get back, albeit only a bit. Now, after the first two deadlines, is where the game takes off. You will be introduced to a new mechanic where the number ‘666’ can appear and try to ruin your run. With a base percentage of 1.5%, it can appear and wipe your coins from the current round. Later on down the line, it can wipe all of your coins from your pockets.
After you complete a deadline in CloverPit, you will get a call from the red phone on the wall. The voice on the other side will offer boons that will both help and harm your run. You can reroll with tickets, but that will increase as you reroll. So be careful with what you choose.
Next up are the trinkets. You will find various trinkets throughout CloverPit that will help you run, some that are obvious and others not so obvious. All will help you increase your odds of meeting the deadline and help you survive. There are ones that will add buffs when you spin the slots to let the next spin have better luck, to let the icons come with buffs to get more money, or to trigger more patterns. Others will try to upgrade the payout, but of course, it’s all RNG in the end.
Conclusion
Despite being a RNG roguelike game, it’s been one of the most fun and addictive. When you get the jackpots, it feels great, and if you can get the buffs and get a million out of one round, it feels better. All the rewards without the risk of actually gambling. For $8.99 on the Steam store, it’s a good game to go and buy and play with you have nothing else to do, or if you need to scratch a gambling itch. All I can say is welcome to Hell, and let’s go gambling!
