Coin Treasures

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Coin Treasures is an active-clicking coin-slots game with slow initial gameplay that turns into more of a idler after you spend some time with it. It's fairly slow paced in the beginning and so you do have to give it some active clicking time before seeing where the game will take you. While the type of game is something that likely fascinated a lot of us as children or even as adults, the digital version here is not too exciting and loses its luster after a short while. Overall, the game is rather shallow and there is not a lot of meta game that one would expect to find from the multitude of clicker/idlers where there is a mathematical progression and working through a system where the numbers go up and keep going up.

Gameplay

Click to drop a coin down the machine and you can see where it is going to get pushed. Wait out the required time and click to drop another coin down. Rinse and repeat as you get more coins back you can keep using them to feed into the system. You also have an automatic coin generator that you can click on to speed up its progress. Occassionally you will see quests or artifacts drop, or perhaps you will have other bonus items or power ups, and pushing those items down the collection chute and you will earn some extras as well.

The game is very click heavy to begin with. There's no way around it. You have to work your way until you unlock the automatic coin drop, and even then, it's slow, very slow. The upgrades that gradually increase the speed at which you can earn free coins or that the coin drop can happen at faster paces get costly quickly, and so you will have to rely on your own mouse click for a long time yet. Fortunately the quests help you gain more coin/treasure to be able to make those upgrade purchases.

Then ultimately your goal is to watch your own score go up and up. It starts off at a pretty slow pace, but will eventually speed up. Your score includes the treasures, extras for quests, and also incluides the amount of coins you push down the chute overall.

Controls

Move a mouse and click on the top of the machine where you can expect a coin to be placed in this machine.

Graphics

The artwork looks neat, but the optimization isn't the best. When you have a lot of artifacts on screen and in the background, along with plenty of coin action, the game stutters slightly. The UI could also use some improvements.

Music & Sounds

The music wasn't all that exciting. The sound effects were okay but can also be a bit confusing at times. I did turn it off for most of the time I stayed engaged with this game.

Audience

Here's the problem. People who don't like clickers/idlers probably won't like this game, unless they had a history of being fascinated by the coin pushing machines out there in reality. In addition, people who enjoy the particular genres of games might find this game rather a bit too shallow and there's not too much additional meta game to be played. Plus the genres have plenty of free games that have the right mathematical formulations to give players senses of accomplishment with the progression, and this game is rather lacking in that front. I find it difficult to push this toward any audience at the moment, even those who like clickers/idlers, because something feels fundamentally missing from this game. The game didn't really give me the satisfaction I usually enjoy from playing idlers/clickers. It didn't give me the drive to go back and play more.

Pricing

The price is fine. Six dollars isn't trying to break your wallet or bank account but at the same time, there are parts missing from the clicker/idler games that I am used to. Plus there are so many free or cheaper games that have better mechanics and give more satisfaction.

Conclusion

Coin Treasures is fine for what it is, but it is too shallow and will have a difficult time competing for audience from other clicker/idlers out there because it's fundamentally too shallow. I find it hard to give a positive recommendation to any particular group of players at this time.

I received the product for free. I did not receive any compensation to write this review. The opinions represented here are entirely my own and were not influenced in any way.

its fun at start.
then you realize the amount of ressources needed to run that game wich is crazy hungry for what it does...
i even wonder if that game is not using computer ressources for something else seeing how crazy it is
Then... you have to keep the game launched, nothing happens when the game is closed wich make this even more suspicious.

I wouldnt recommend at all installing and playing that game.
maybe im wrong but. its the taste this game left me.

This game is fun for a few hours, but if you're an achievement hunter like me the game gets boring really soon. The achievement for Collecting 10,000,000 Coins will take days of idling and I have tried to speed up that progress but I have had the game crash so many times that it is now just a background idler for I think 3 weeks before I will have that last achievement.