A taste of Italy. Key provided for coverage.
I’ve put some hours into Pizza Slice on Steam and I’m ready to give my impressions as a game where you make pizza and not a whole lot else. You might be thinking “no sides or other dishes?” Correct, no sides or other dishes. A little disappointing but I’m not going to dock the game for what it isn’t.
Pizza Slice has you operating a pizzeria with your brother in Italy, dealing with all the things Italians have to deal with. Going to market to get ingredients, fighting the rival pizzeria, dealing with the mafia, etc.
You go to market for your ingredients, bring them back, and prepare your pizzas. Make the dough, cut up the ingredients, put everything together, throw it in the oven, and serve your hungry customers. Over time you’ll expand the menu, expand the restaurant, hire employees, and really rake in the dough (wakka wakka).
You’ll notice that Pizza Slice has relatively poor reviews on Steam, and that’s because the game came out in a really bad spot with a lot of bugs and a broken co-op mode. While most of those issues have been fixed, the game still remains in a very buggy state with things like tasks not progressing, the clock just acting weird, and more.
This leads me to one of my big frustrations with the game; it doesn’t communicate certain things that well. Specifically I’m talking about the pizza rating system when you serve a customer. Your pizzas are graded up to five stars and most of them make sense.
Shape, sauce, ingredients, baking. All make complete sense. But then there’s a rating for “dough” that I can’t find an explanation for but occasionally get dinged on by customers and I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong nor do I know what I do right when I have days that I get completely five stars.
I tried searching the forums and couldn’t find anyone else with the same problem, so maybe I’m just an idiot.
Despite those complaints I am actually enjoying myself on Pizza Slice so far. I did turn the difficulty down to easy because I already work enough hours and I don’t come to games like this for the stress. Just don’t play with a controller. Making the pizzas is rather enjoyable and relaxing and the ongoing story is set dressing for the pizza.
I also like that you can buy better tools to make the game even more manageable, like a ladle that tells you how much sauce is on the pizza without having to double-check. I’ll have more to say on this as the game gets more fixes and content, but for now Pizza Slice is a pretty fun game.
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