CloverPit Review Overview
What is CloverPit?
CloverPit is a round-based strategy rogue-lite built entirely around the basic concept of a casino slot machine. Hitting the same vein as Balatro, only this time evoking a different section of the gambling scene, CloverPit challenges players to earn higher and higher thresholds of money by tipping fortune in their favor using different Lucky Charms, else they will be sent to an early grave.
CloverPit features:
⚫︎ 150+ charms to unlock, play, and build strategies with
⚫︎ High-stakes slot machine gameplay
⚫︎ 2 unique endings to experience
⚫︎ Countless run permutations
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 Steam |
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| $9.99 |
CloverPit Pros & Cons
| Pros | Cons |
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 Simple Premise, Great Execution Addicting, But With No Drawbacks |
Hit or Miss Fun Unskippable Cutscenes |
CloverPit Story - 6/10
CloverPit has no story. CloverPit needs no story. It’s about as straightforward and financially brutal as a drunken bender in Vegas that ends with your wallet empty and your mind fuzzy. It technically has endings, so some narrative exists, it’s all just set dressing for the gameplay, though, not the main attraction itself, and the quality reflects that much.
CloverPit Gameplay - 8/10
One could argue that CloverPit’s gameplay benefited more from the inherent addiction-inducing design of casino slots than the other way around, but its implementation of round-based strategy and rogue-lite elements deserves some commendation. It’s just a difficult but repetitive numbers game in the end, nothing special, but one you’d get absorbed in easily anyway.
CloverPit Visuals - 7/10
CloverPit’s visuals borrow the same Klubnika-esque low-poly, grungy look that indie horrors have all been partaking in lately, and it isn’t particularly unique in that regard. It doesn’t offend the eyes, and the colors and claustrophobia they invoke are praiseworthy enough despite the lack of variety or originality.
CloverPit Audio - 7/10
CloverPit’s audio is metallic, disturbing, and hauntingly engaging, albeit a bit limited due to the game’s intentionally narrow scope. What we got was good enough; I just wish we had gotten more of it.
CloverPit Value for Money - 8/10
This game is available for just $10! Not only is that cheap for an overall above-average game that you’d likely lose a few good hours to, if not tens, it’s cheaper than the real-life alternative to playing slots. That last bit doesn’t get it any points, but this is a perfectly acceptable price for this game.
CloverPit Overall Score - 72/100
True to the soul of the slots, this is a game that’s either a lucky spin or a total bust, it all depends on what kind of payout you’re hoping for. If you’re here for some light rogue-lite fun and flashy reels, you’ll hit a winner. But if you’re chasing a story jackpot, don’t be surprised when you walk away empty-handed.
CloverPit Review: Didn't Hit The Jackpot
In all my years, I’ve always been thankful that I was never lured by something as potentially life-destroying as gambling. Now, that’s not to say I haven’t fallen prey to similar mechanics like gacha, lootboxes, or whatever monetization Blizzard’s been doing to Hearthstone, but at least you won’t find me betting away my life savings at potentially nothing at the slots.
Enter CloverPit, the nightmarish amalgamation of what I’ve avoided and what I’ve willingly subjected myself to: gamified gambling. I narrowly escaped the clutches of "make number go up" syndrome when Balatro came out; I feared I’d fall for it again this time. Yet try it, I did, and fall to its clutches, I didn’t. It’s simply nowhere near as addicting, but overall decent.
Let’s pull that lever down and see where Lady Luck takes us for this review, why don’t we?
Casino in A Closet
So, slot machine roguleike, eh? What setting awaits us for such a unique combination of genres? A massive Casino, perhaps? Maybe an island-sized game room with prizes awaiting the high rollers! No…it’s a broom closet. Well, not literally, it’s actually some weird, closet-sized steam room with a small slot machine on one side, a rigged floor, a telephone, and an ATM.
Despite how dismayed I sound, it actually isn’t any less novel an idea, and I actually find it quite charming if not outright horrific (also a good thing). Here, you’re forced to play a messed-up death game of sorts, not too dissimilar from Mike Klubnika’s Buckshot Roulette, except you’re taking your game from a different part of the Casino entirely. Fail to win, and the floor opens to drop you into the abyss. But how do we play this death game? Easy. Spin to win.
You Better Hope Lady Luck’s On Your Side in This Game
The core of CloverPit truly is just a slot machine like any other you’d find in Vegas, or weirdly advertised with AI on the internet. You pull the lever and see what fortune awaits you (or lack thereof). What truly sets this game apart is everything else in that room with you. Firstly, the ATM, through which a mysterious voice teaches you the game.
This ATM also dispenses your money and displays your debt goal, which is the amount you need to achieve by the end of a few rounds. You earn money by playing the slot machines and being rewarded based on what symbols you get and what patterns they form.
Moving on to the rogue-lite elements of the game, you’re also afforded the luxury of a shop that sells you charms. These charms can grant you chance-based bonuses to your payout from the machine. These could be anything from bumping up your luck, which in turn guarantees matching symbols for your spins, to modifying the effects of each symbol, the effectiveness of each pattern when hit, or just straight up giving you money in some cases.
Charms are bought using Clover Tickets, a unique currency earned by completing rounds of spinning on the machine, or by other means usually facilitated by other charms. You can also earn these by finishing your debt goal earlier than the number of rounds you’re given.
Speaking of rounds, let’s talk about those before we gather together everything this game has for you in one pull. Gameplay is separated into a series of deadlines, which, in turn, are separated into different rounds, usually three per deadline. A round is comprised of a series of spins on the slot machine, followed by a payout of Clover Tickets and money, then a chance for you to buy new charms, deposit money for increased interest payouts, or just straight up meet your deadline requirements if you were lucky enough.
Obviously, the stakes rise every time you meet a deadline, and after 5 rounds, you get to unlock a key, which then unlocks new things to interact with in the room. Between each deadline, you get a call from the nearby phone, which grants you powerful buffs for the rest of the run, like doubling the value of certain symbols and such.
It’s pretty much an engine-building game where your goal is to tip the scales in your favor, similar to Luck Be A Landlord. Unlike Luck Be A Landlord, though, you die if you fail, and the symbols aren’t yours to change, only influence.
Insofar, this gameplay seems like a rather tight system. You spin, you spend, you hope for the best, you try not to die. But is that all there is? Well…yeah. Pretty much.
Self-contained Gameplay with a Story Stuck in Containment
Although the risk-based rogue-lite elements are top-notch and executed well, CloverPit evokes a certain emptiness in its design. Like there’s something supposed to be here that just isn’t. The slot machine is likely to distract you from it, but this game does have a story—or at least, it tries to.
Winning enough runs unlocks enough new interactables and charms to eventually receive one of two endings. To avoid spoilers, neither will be discussed in this review; just know that it’s pretty much inconsequential to the game as a whole. It’s a gambling simulator with a bit of razzle-dazzle thrown in, and that’s perfectly fine, because that’s what Balatro was, and people loved that game to bits, which makes it funnier that that had no gambling in it, while this one does.
So what’s the issue? Commitment to the bit. I think this game would’ve been great if it didn’t try to be a horror-suspense game on top of being what it already was. If it just did the slots thing and did it well, it would’ve accomplished what it should’ve been to its full capacity.
Enjoyable Slots, If Nothing Else
Well, enough bellyaching about what the game didn’t do well; what did it manage to get right? Well, for one thing, the core gameplay. This game’s core is splendid. Tight and repetitive, yes. Downright unforgiving at times, even. But boring? Absolutely not. You could lose hours just watching those slots spin without spending more than this game’s very cheap asking price.
It’s basically Vegas without the downsides. Without the winnings, either, true, but hey, at least you’re having fun. The randomness doesn’t feel unfair most of the time, and it feels like you have real agency on how your builds come out, even if you are literally locked in a closet.
There’s a healthy amount of unlocks too, and not to mention the fun of unlocking the endings themselves, even if they are a bit lackluster.
Rolled High, Rolled Low
And so we reach the last deadline for CloverPit. I’m aware it never tried to be Balatro, but perhaps it could’ve learned a thing or two from it. I believe it tried too hard to be many things at once, and this spread its quality thin between facets that really didn’t need to exist for it to be a good game.
And it is still a good game, just not the best it could’ve been. Maybe it could still have its cake and eat it too, so to speak, by doing what Inscyption did with Kaycee’s Mod. You can enjoy the story OR just the game, or both. Sadly, it doesn’t have that option yet, and honestly, all that the game builds in horror atmosphere is simply just that: atmosphere.
A solid core loop with patently addicting gameplay is a winning combo, but I guess they just struck out on the Jackpot.
Is CloverPit Worth It?
It Ain’t Perfect, But It Ain’t Asking For Much Either—So, Yes
I’ve had much to say about this game, not all of which is good, but its price isn’t something I’m complaining about. Coming in at a very affordable $10, with very frequent sales to boot, you’re pretty much paying for a sandwich, except it gives you the satisfaction of being a high roller.
This game has insane replayability and much thrill to give for such a meager price. It’s not the next best addiction, but it ain’t gonna cost you.
| Digital Storefronts | |||||||
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| Steam |
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| $9.99 |
CloverPit FAQ
Is CloverPit A Horror Game?
Yes. According to the game’s description, CloverPit is a horror rogue-lite based on slot machines.
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CloverPit Product Information
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| Title | CLOVERPIT |
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| Release Date | September 26, 2025 (Steam) |
| Developer | Panik Arcade |
| Publisher | Future Friends Games |
| Supported Platforms | Steam |
| Genre | Horror, Indie,Simulation, Strategy, Roguelite |
| Number of Players | 1 |
| ESRB Rating | RP |
| Official Website | CloverPit Website |
