Coin Treasures is a free-to-play coin pusher game available on Steam. This game is essentially like the machines commonly seen at arcades. In this game, you get a machine with a stack of coins/items at the bottom, and your task is to free them.
The game starts with you gathering coins on the bottom floor, which act as currency once freed from the machine. You place coins at the top to knock down the pins and land on the upper floor, then move to the bottom floor. You do this until you free enough coins to earn treasure and unlock artefacts to drop into the machine. Basic artefacts should unlock automatically to incentivise players from the start to put coins into the machine. In the real world, you wouldn’t put your money into one of these machines to get your money back; usually, they offer prizes, even if it is something as small as a keyring.
From there, your objective is to collect all the objects in the game. At first, I liked the fantasy-themed setting, as it feels right for artefact drops like maps and tiaras. But you can unlock artefacts such as “cute figure” animals, which are large and look like dog toys. Most of the artefacts you can unlock do not fit the game.
I also think some aspects of the game could have been improved, since the in-game effects for the bouncing pins and the end-of-floor display use neon-like lighting. I wouldn’t have used neon-light effects for the display. If I had to redesign th would have had 2 dragons breathing fire that destroy all items that leave the table. I wouldn’t have had bouncy pins in the game, as it is silly; the pink neon lighting used for the pins in particular looks like something from the 1980s.
Gameplay aside, this is a free-to-play game, though in most cases that isn’t entirely true. Most free-to-play games only give you so much content before you pay or grind to unlock more. This game is entirely free to play, with no microtransactions. You still have to unlock abilities and artefacts in-game by getting items out of the machine.
Compared to other like-minded games, I think it is better in some aspects. I also expected some similarities because of the nature of the game. The first similarity is the need to grind for items to complete quests, which isn’t too bad. You also have to gather quest items (map/scroll) to complete a quest. The quests are endless, but you can only have one of each quest at a time. I like this because most Facebook/free-to-play games only give you x amount of quests rather than one of each to do whenever you want.
The last similarity is waiting for coins if you run out. But you can click a button on the right-hand side of coins, if you unlock the regenerator, to gather more coins. I never needed to do this much. Also, coins don’t regenerate when you are not playing. To regenerate coins you have to leave it running in the background. This handy if done while you are doing other things on the computer to farm coins and drops.
Overall, it is a good free-to-play game to spend time on or run in the background. This game is best played for a few minutes, then left until you get more lives or items to gather.
