Game: Pizza Slice
Genre: Simulation
System: Steam (Windows)
Developer | Publisher: Quest Craft, Gaming Factory | Gaming Factory, Ultimate Games S.A., Ultimate Publishing, PlayWay S.A.
Controller Support: None
Price: US $14.99 | UK £12.99 | EU € 14,99
Release Date: March 13, 2026
Review code provided, with many thanks to Press Engine.
Pizza Slice is a simulation game all about inheriting and running a pizza place. You begin with very little, and you need to build up your shop and buy new appliances to make pizza-making easier.
A New York Slice
Pizza Slice is all about running everything in a pizza shop. You need to shop for ingredients, make the dough, make the sauce, cut up the ingredients, cook the pizza, take orders from customers, clean up the tables, and serve them as well. To get all this done, you will need to be quick on your feet.
The game begins with our main character inheriting the pizza place his grandfather left him. Your cousin is there to “help,” but he is the most useless person ever to exist, so he doesn’t actually do anything other than watch you work (you can assign him duties, but we’ll discuss that later).
You need to clean up the place in Pizza Slice first, then purchase ingredients, make your first pizza, then you can open up the shop to customers. You then have to do everything while the store remains open for the rest of the day, and you need to move very fast to keep people from getting angry and leaving.
Playing Feels Like Running a Real Pizza Place Alone
Pizza Slice feels pretty realistic, but not in a good way. You have to deal with every single piece of the interaction with little to no help. Your cousin can be assigned to duties, but he does them slowly and will just kind of wander off when he’s bored or done.
Back in the day, I had a retail job at a local card store. We had a 125-person event that evening, and I was running the whole thing alone. I had to check out customers, sign people up for the tournament, collect money, ref, and deal with other customers at the same time, all while dealing with inventory for the new card set that had come out. This feels like what I felt in real life.
Except that the customers are meaner in the game.
I like simulations where you have a lot to do. Plate Up! is probably one of my favorites. However, there is something to be said about how Plate Up! handles its ramp-up in difficulty. Also, all the jobs in it are fun to do.
Pizza Slice feels like it was trying to copy the hectic pace of Plate Up! without any of the fun of it. It looks like a great game, and it has all the pieces to make it something special, but there is just something incredibly unfun about how it is all put together.
There Are A Lot Of Good Things Too
While Pizza Slice is not super fun to play, there are a lot of things that it does very well. I like the little gambling game in it. I like the tutorial, and I like a lot of the aspects of it. But getting your pizza shop off the ground is so stressful that it negates a lot of the interesting pieces.
I played maybe an hour of Pizza Slice before I had to turn it off. It was so stressful. However, I found the graphics to be really appealing, the sound design to be nice, and some of the actions to be fun to do. I think with some tweaking, Pizza Slice could be an amazing simulation game.
Conclusion
As it currently stands, Pizza Slice is not a fun simulation game. It’s a shame, because it looks like a lot of fun. It has Twitch integration, and it has several difficulties (I’m scared to try hard mode, considering how hard Normal mode has been). I hope the developers make some changes going forward.
Final Verdict: I’m Not Sure
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