Donut Wrangler

If you are currently on a diet, you should, in all seriousness, close this tab right now. Unless you have a bakery nearby, you may be about to embark on a long quest for some sweet doughy goodness.

Donut Wrangler is a fairly simple physics game that lets you control a small fork, which has the power to create the largest stack of donuts known to man. Like any powerful object, however, it is not easy to handle, so make sure you are prepared.

If you are not distracted by the absolutely perfect donut models, you may notice a tiny fork in the middle of your screen. You can control this tool with the WASD or arrow keys, press the spacebar to make it “jump”, and hit “E” to have it grab or release an object.

Your goal is to create the most imposing Mount Donut you can possibly imagine. While it may sound simple right now, you will find that the controls are quite a bit more challenging than you might expect.

It will take a little while to get used to the controls, but I never found the game to be frustrating, even when I managed to knock down a pretty impressive stack of baked goods. The sheer silliness of what you are doing simply prevents you from taking the game too seriously.

The height of your donut mountain is measured at all times, and the highest value is displayed at the top of your screen. Essentially, the only thing you can do is attempt to best your previous high score, as there are no other gameplay mechanics to mention.

While, given the nature of the game, I can understand the developer’s wish to keep things simple, I feel that some basic sound effects would have been a great addition.

This game is more likely to make you go on a food run than any donut commercial ever made. The models are just too tasty for their own good, and a few minutes of donut stacking will probably be enough to get you to head to the nearest bakery.

In the end, Donut Wrangler is not exactly a complex game, but it is worth trying out, even it just to appreciate the sheer perfection of the donut models.