Introspection will be fairly tough. Trying inward, selecting your self aside, analyzing your previous by an goal lens, actually acknowledging your faults… title a tougher activity for a person within the 12 months 2025. But, the characters in Eric Osuna’s A Pizza Supply do it with ease. As they study themselves, maybe you’ll study one thing about your self on the best way.
A Pizza Supply is a surreal, narrative-focused indie with gentle puzzle components. You put on the purple visor of B, a deliveryperson making an attempt to ship her final pizza of the day. Her moped scoots her from place to position, and people landscapes shift from places like a darkish, creepy metropolis to an orange-lit cemetery in a forest. They’re all very atmospheric, invoking particular moods. As the children would say, A Pizza Supply is a really vibes-based recreation, and the synth rating and piano melodies from composer LaFrancessa go a great distance in making these vibes chill.
Whereas out on deliveries, there’s some gentle puzzle fixing to sort out alongside the best way, however they don’t intervene with the move of the narrative. Whereas in most different video games rain simply makes characters moist and glossy, it’s an actual problem to beat in A Pizza Supply. Individuals may like chilly pizza (weirdos), however nobody likes a soggy pie, and some challenges contain navigating a pizza by a stage whereas rain pours down.
In some methods, A Pizza Supply is a bit just like the Demise Stranding titles (minus the gunky monsters and eerie infants) and their give attention to constructing human connection. B has a second pizza on her, and shares it with the parents she comes throughout. Identical to in actual life, there’s no extra human method to bond with somebody than over meals.
Noby, residing in a darkish and uninviting metropolis, feels caught prior to now, unable to progress additional. He’s misplaced some colour, components of him turning gray like a statue, and the identical can occur to B if she lingers for too lengthy on a bench, exhibiting us that transferring ahead is the one method to progress — even after we don’t know what we’re progressing towards, like B.
Backpack Man opens as much as B maybe greater than anybody she comes throughout. He’s alone, struggling to know how his near-perfect relationship in the end felt hole ultimately. “Don’t you are feeling like all the things is going on very quick?” he asks, and, oh boy, do I.
B doesn’t all the time know learn how to reply the questions of Backpack Man and the others. Hell, she doesn’t all the time know learn how to provide up a slice of pie, at one level extending an open field towards somebody and simply saying, “Um…” She’s slightly nervous, slightly awkward, slightly confused, and wholly relatable. I’m unsure if by the tip of her brief, two-hour journey she’s discovered change, however I definitely felt modified by the point credit rolled.
A Pizza Supply is the kind of recreation that’s greatest once you sit again and let it come to you, once you let your self ponder the identical questions its introspective characters are struggling to reply. It may be greatest performed on a darkish, wet day, when the world outdoors your window is just too uninviting to journey by, and also you’d quite keep at residence with some pizza. Even when it’s chilly.
A Pizza Supply is out now on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X. The sport was reviewed on PS5 utilizing a prerelease obtain code offered by Dolores Leisure. Yow will discover extra details about Polygon’s ethics coverage right here.
