Pep-Pel

Pep-Pel

SlugGlove · September 15, 2023 · Action, Adventure, Indie

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About Pep-Pel

✦ AI summary

Pep-Pel is a fluid momentum-based platformer where you speed through eight hand-drawn worlds as a cursed goblin magician hunting the treasure chests that did this to you. Each level introduces its own unique mechanic—from candy projectiles to lasers to wind physics—and rewards skilled players who master momentum-building to blast through levels at extreme speeds while hunting collectibles and unlocking costumes.

Play as Pep-Pel, a magician cursed to be a small red goblin, in this fluid and fast paced platformer!

Explore 8 unique worlds in the search of monstrous treasure chests that cursed her. Hundreds of hand drawn assets make up each world the player will travel to.

Try not to be too greedy, with hundreds of collectables in each level, and medals you can win for beating levels quickly!

Key Features


-Momentum Based Platformer: Pep-Pel is a momentum based platformer, where the player runs through large scale levels.

-High Replayability Value: The game is made to encourage the player to replay each level to improve how fast they can finish a level, along with having collectables in each level.

-Unique Level Mechanics: Each of the games 8 main levels have there own unique mechanic, including; candy projectiles, rope, lazers, chase mechanics, wind, water, and poison

-Robust Customization Options: Unlock many different costumes as you progress through the game. Costumes can be unlocked by beating levels or by collecting collectables.


Momentum Based Platformer


-Momentum System: run as fast as you can through each level to beat them as fast as possible. With a focus on building momentum as you play, skilled players will be rewarded by being able to move at extreme speeds through levels.

-Curved Surfaces: Curved and natural surfaces are a main focus of level design. Using a system that allow the player to move across any style of surface geometry, level design is not restricted to blocky pixel surfaces

-Movement Mechanics: Pep-Pel has a large variety of different movement mechanic. All of which can help the player move fluidly through levels.

-Fast and challenging: Players will die often so player deaths are made to be quick and satisfying, allowing the player to retry quickly. Armour can be found hidden around levels, this allows the player to survive one extra hit of damage before they die.


Level mechanics


-Each level has its own unique mechanic: New Mechanics are introduced naturally at the start of a level and get more complex as the level progresses

-Hard Mode: Hard mode levels incorporate mechanics from multiple different levels

Visuals


-Level Worlds: Every level exists in its own unique world, allowing level designs to be creative and involve anything that would be fun as a visual.

-Color Palette: Each level is designed with a unique color palette and style to make them visually distinct.

-Hundreds of unique animations: Pep-Pel is animated with over 150 unique animations. These are blended together in gameplay.

-Animation blending: animations are combined as the character moves to make character animation more dynamic and natural.

-Actually 3D!: Pep-Pel is animated as a unique 3D model using 2D stylization, this allows for more extreme and dynamic animations to be made.

Pep-Pel — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Sep 18, 2026
"Pep-Pel" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This is an unfortunate Itchio reject... an amateur platformer with near-MSPaint tier "art", floaty weird and unsatisfying controls, and despite the friendly looking veneer, frustrating difficulty that's really hard to explain... was that intentional, or did the developer just do a really bad job on level design? And that's somewhat irrelevant, almost nobody played this. It was a huge flop. Let's get into why. In the modern era of high quality bleeding edge PC gaming, these kinds of flat, lazy, lackluster platformers just don't cut it. Platforming is a dead genre for a reason. Even though this is "free", it failed to attract any interest for gamers here on Steam Direct for obvious reasons. This looks a lot like it was designed for consoles, but released on Steam instead by mistake. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier th…
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Not recommended Mar 8, 2026
Originally a $12.99 game that went free. The platforming movement is far too slick and inconsistent. Everything about the game, except the music, feels thrown together with little to no point or purpose.
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Recommended Sep 22, 2026
Fun little game. It’s simple, easy to get into, and has that old-school arcade feel where you can just jump in and start playing.Just some simple fun.
Recommended Aug 16, 2026
Fun platformer, controls are pretty clunky but in the end it felt satisfying to get a handle on them Pretty buggy on occasion but it is what it is, overally was an enjoyable time
Recommended Jul 15, 2025
Haven't played too many momentum based platformers but think Pep-pel has a really beautiful art style and aesthetic for each world and the movement controls are so smooth. A good case of easy to learn hard to master controls. But definitely can dance the fine line of hair pulling frustration trying to collect everything haha. Definitely would recommend ^_^
Recommended May 11, 2025
Tons of fun. Great movement. The game suggests to play with a controller but keyboard works great. 10/10 Laptop game.

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