Pizza Tower

Pizza Tower is Tour De Pizza's astonishing solo-developed 2D platformer — a game that channels the chaotic energy of Wario Land 4 through a hand-drawn cartoon aesthetic of frenetic, kinetic joy that immediately earned it recognition as one of the finest platformers of its generation. Playing as Peppino Spaghetti, an anxious Italian chef racing through the floors of the Pizza Tower to reach its top and destroy Pizzaface before his pizzeria is obliterated, every level is a masterclass in escalating momentum. You sprint, wall-run, shoulder-charge, and suplex enemies through levels that accelerate from exploration into full-speed chaos during the final Pizza Time countdown sequences, which flip the level into a survival run back to the entrance. The animation — entirely hand-drawn and extraordinarily expressive — is some of the finest 2D character animation in game history. An incredible achievement for a game made primarily by one person.