In a world with tons of false advertising and misleading headlines, it’s nice to get exactly what you paid for.
The game mechanics in Unfair Flips is simple, but don’t get it twisted – this is game design in its purest form. Flip the coin. Flip it again. Flip it once more. Keep flipping until you no longer want to flip.
This is the principle behind every game ever. The only difference is that Unfair Flips doesn’t obscure its mechanics in obscene levels of trickery and tomfoolery. That’s not to disparage or look down upon any of the other wonderful games out there. Rather it’s merely an observation on the modern media landscape, where every one and every thing is striving to capture your attention.
While many games force you to engage in endless to-do lists of digital chores, in the forms of daily quests, missions, and battle passes, Unfair Flips tasks you with one singular goal – get 10 Heads in a row. It’s a simple task, but simple doesn’t always mean easy.
You start with a 20% chance of Heads. If you manage to get enough Heads, you can acquire money, which can be used to buy upgrades to increase your odds. But don’t be fooled – reaching 50% takes roughly $1,000, with each subsequent 5% increase costing exponentially more.
In one run, I managed to get to 55% and just narrowly missed out on the $100,000 necessary to reach 60%. That’s because I got 9 Heads in a row and was able to test my luck at a tenth. Of course in this attempt, I flew too close to the sun, or rather my coin flew too close to the sun, because I flipped it and it never came down.
This was one of Unfair Flips multiple endings. After 9 heads in a row, no matter what your upgraded Heads percentage is, your new odds are thrusted back down to 10%. This is only 1 of the 5 unlockable endings. In the 3 full playthroughs I’ve personally done, I managed to send my coin into the atmosphere twice and get eggbugged once. What exactly does it mean to get eggbugged? You’ll have to play the game to find out.
For my experience, increasing your odds to 55%, will likely get you 9 heads in a row within roughly an hour of playtime, though keep in mind that the game uses “true randomness”. As the Steam page says, “it is possible that the first ten times you flip the coin will be all heads. However, it’s exceedingly unlikely; with a 20% chance of flipping heads each time, your odds of getting ten in a row are one in 9,765,625.”
Unfair Flips is a game about probability. It’s a game about patience. And it’s a game about games. Paired with an endearing UI and a minimalist soundscape, flipping a coin has never been more fun.
Purchase Unfair Flips on Steam here (Unsponsored): https://store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/Unfair_Flips/
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