Order a Pizza

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Name: Order a Pizza
Status: Complete
Site: rocketadrift.itch.io/order-a-pizza
Pairing: M/F
Description: Groundhog day but the Pizza is fatal.


 

A linear psychological game in which you are a divorced father trying to order pizza for dinner. With your annoyed daughter on one side of you and your concerned girlfriend on the other, you must order the perfect pizza to create the perfect circumstances for them to get to know each other.

The game sets you up for failure immediately, and after your first fuck up you find yourself in a groundhog's day scenario where it is time to try again, and again, and again, until things start getting surreal. There are minor jump scares in this game, which makes it more of a horror game than most ostensibly horror games in the BLM bundle, but the ending is a hopeful one.

Gameplay involves chatting with the npcs, then poking around the room a little to find clues as to what should make the best pizza, or later what the fuck the problem is. There is no choice "choice" in the game. The correct pizza order is always obvious, and you need to either not be paying any attention or actively sabotaging the game to see what happens to get it wrong. There is also no skip feature and no option to save, so even though each round has a pass or fail scenario, looking for all the fail scenarios was tedious and I didn't bother after doing just one of them. There's also a single round where the ordering system changed from having you choose which ingredients you want, to having you choose which ones you don't want. This led to a fail state I intended to avoid. But other than that the game was straightforward and simple, with a similarly straightforward message. Show the people in your life a little real attention, communicate, and appreciate them. And don't use pizza as a way to dodge actual emotional maturity.

This was an short game, but it was well done and was heartfelt, so if you if you want to see a minor fuckup of a guy figuring things out by having a psychotic break over pizza this is your game.