Gambler’s Table keeps a player endlessly flipping coins on Steam

Kotaku ran a first-person blog about Gambler’s Table, a new idle coin-flipping game out now on Steam that the writer says he can’t stop playing.

The game centers on clicking a coin to flip it: landing the money symbol yields a dollar, while landing a skull grants a skull point used to buy hats. Players can buy additional coins and hire little minion men to flip coins automatically, and purchase upgrades that speed up flips and raise profit per flip. The game later introduces silver and gold coins, an upgrade that removes the need for clicking, and a system where earning enough money grants a skill point for a permanent upgrade; wiping the table restarts a run to earn more money and another skill point.

The writer describes repeatedly flipping coins, buying hats for minions with skull points, poking idle minions to get them back to work, and putting off describing the game’s smooth animations, coin sounds and sillier late upgrades because he has "coins to flip."

Editor’s note: In the hours since receiving this blog from Zack, we’ve not heard from him. Emails and texts have been ignored. His wife called and said the door to his basement office is locked, but she can hear a clicking noise and what sounds like someone humming “Flip…flip…flip…flip.” We are hopeful Zack will return soon.

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Culture, Gambler's Table, Steam, Idle Game, Coin Flipping, Minion