Adriatic Pizza

This game delivers on all of its promises, and more. I was sold on just the premise of flying a sea-plane and making pizza, but there was unexpected depth in the form of small quests given to you by the inhabitants of the disparate islands. The flying mechanics feel like a dream. Splashing down to land is great. Being able to navigate with just a compass and paper map is fun and manageable. The visuals and soundtrack complement each other very well. Would definitely recommend.

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Pros - $5 - Chill game - Decent mechanics Neutral - Very little content but very repeatable Cons - The shader makes a few things hard to distinguish, specifically the black color - Music took like 40 minutes to kick in and is very spotty - Game is a little laggy at times - The writing in books in the game is completely unreadable - Frequent bugs that cause hardlocks where you need to restart the game from day 0 (Some examples being all the tomatoes disappearing from the fridge the day after a full harvest or dialogue with mom breaking leaving you without tutorials) The main things I would like to see fixed are the text in books, a little more dialogue and maybe more quests if the dev is feeling up for it, I'd love for the music to be more frequent and maybe have more variety but all in all the game was $5 and it's pretty relaxing, definitely recommend

TLDR: if you care for mechanics, exploration, mini-games and coziness over story and narrative I'd recommend you give this one a shot. Don't wait for a discount since the price is 100% fair for what this game is. A hard recommendation here but still one that I'm willing to make. You can see by my play time that I quickly realized what this game was and where it was going and decided it was not for me. However, I believe in encouraging artists and this recommendation comes in that spirit. Going with the good things first, it's a *very* interesting concept and the aesthetics are beautiful. I love exploration in games but most games make it so hand-holdy that it detracts from the "exploration" feeling, Adriatic Pizza fully commits to it in a very interesting way which I would say is one of it strong suits. The map, traversal and exploration are beautiful and would love to see more done with them. It also has a lot of "mini-games" which mix up gameplay and their execution is good: quick, short and simple mini-games that engage you without overstaying their welcome. That being said, there were three key areas where the game lost me: readability, story and writing. To get the most me…

Ever wanted to make pizza in the universe of the studio Ghibili film "porco rosso"? this is the game for you. delivers on its promise, perfect for relaxing.