Pizza Tower (2023) · Tastebuds

Pizza Tower is a 2D platformer mainly inspired by Wario Land and Earthworm Jim. The game has over-the-top hand-drawn animations and music. You play as Peppino Spaghetti, a manic pizza man with many abilities like charging, super jumping and dashing.

Platform Adventure Indie Action Comedy surrealism fast paced cartoon graphics pizza cartoony ranking system original soundtrack release in-game achievement menu cartoon violence surreal comedyPC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch

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Plot-driven, relentless, unpretentious and warm.

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IGNMitchell SaltzmanMar 20239/10
Pizza Tower is a blisteringly fast 2D platformer with an unmistakable art style and unforgettable soundtrack that transcends its Wario Land inspirations and finds its own identity as one of the most energetic, fun, and creative 2D platformers in recent memory.
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PC GamerScott McCraeJan 202390/100
A brilliantly energetic and creative platformer that doesn't just do right by its inspiration Wario Land, but actually surpasses it.
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Nintendo LifeMitch VogelSep 20249/10
Pizza Tower is the rare sort of game that improves on its inspiration in nearly every way, building upon many of Nintendo’s Wario Land ideas with impressive results. This is an incredibly satisfying, creative, and addictive platformer that’ll keep you busy for a long time if you want to 100% it. We’d highly recommend this to anyone who loved the old Wario Land games, or to anyone who’s looking for a new platformer with a high skill ceiling and lots of technical depth. Pizza Tower has definitely got it where it counts - platformers don’t get much better than this.
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About the game

Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch
Developer: Tour De Pizza
Publisher: Tour De Pizza
Released: January 26, 2023
Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Perspective: Side view
Engine: GameMaker: Studio
Time to beat: 4 h rushed · 12 h main story

IGDB rating 8.7/10 from 76 ratings.

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