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Feb 2023
1h 5m

352: Pizza Tower

The Short Game
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Is Pizza Tower a revival of one of platform game design’s most fascinating evolutionary dead ends, or something new?  Is it, as Shane put it, “Celeste for Weirdos?”  Pizza Tower is available on Steam for... 
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