Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “CoinPit” demo version. CoinPit is a dark game that blends roguelike strategy with coin pusher thrills. Trapped in a never-closing, dimly lit bar, your escape lies in the coin pusher – stack shiny towers, spin the lucky wheel, and shake the machine until the coins spill out.
There’s a coin pusher machine in a bar that never closes, the lights are dim, a loan shark is knocking at your door after every round, and the machine itself might be alive – welcome to CoinPit, the most unsettling thing to happen to arcade nostalgia since someone left the lights on in a Chuck E. Cheese at 3AM. Trollix Games has taken the hypnotic, clinking satisfaction of a real coin pusher – the kind you’d pump quarters into on a seaside pier as a kid – and wrapped it in a roguelite psychological horror framework where every coin you drop is a calculated gamble between paying off escalating debts and uncovering the dark secrets buried inside the machine itself. The physics-driven coins cascade in waterfalls, stack into improbable towers, and spill over edges with the kind of ASMR-adjacent metallic clinks that burrow directly into your dopamine center, but this isn’t some relaxing idle game – there’s genuine tension in watching your debt snowball between rounds while you frantically strategize which items and buffs to buy from the bar (yes, the alcoholic drinks are gameplay buffs) and which coins to sacrifice to the machine’s hungry maw. The game describes itself as being about quitting gambling, not about gambling, and that self-aware darkness permeates everything from the dimly lit 1990s bar aesthetic to the multiple endings that hinge on whether you fight for freedom or become part of the machine. With roguelite progression, unique item and buff combinations that let you engineer your own coin-pushing strategy, and a mystery narrative threaded through the pusher’s hidden secrets, CoinPit sits in a genre space that shouldn’t exist – somewhere between Buckshot Roulette’s tension, Luck Be A Landlord’s mechanical satisfaction, and Inscryption’s creeping dread – and it’s all the more compelling for how uncomfortable it makes you feel about how good it feels to hear those coins fall.
Developer: Trollix Games
Publisher: Trollix Games
Genre: Simulation, Roguelite, Psychological Horror, Arcade, Indie
Release Date: Q2 2026
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows
Link: Steam
Review copy was demo.
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