PEPPERED: Existential Platformer Releasing April 7th – Save the World or Fail Miserably

Mostly Games and Black Soup are excited to announce the release date of PEPPERED, an existential platformer in which Doomsday is just around the corner. Save the world or become an eternal corporate slave for the God of Death. Choices matter – or do they? Goof around and find out! Dive into chaos when PEPPERED launches on Steam this April 7th.

Watch the (unpublished) release date trailer here.
Find the press kit here.
Try the demo on Steam.

Note that the trailer will go live on PEPPERED’s social channels on March 3rd as we make our release date public.

ABOUT PEPPERED

PEPPERED is an existential platformer where you have ONE SHOT at everything. Every choice, every boss battle, and every failure impacts the story and determines how it unravels as well as the ending you get. Will you save the world – or fail miserably?

Seeing apathy in the face of doomsday, you play as an office intern who decides to save the world by themselves. The world responds by calling the police, riling up angry mobs, and having the media brand you as a terrorist.

KEY FEATURES

Branching narrative — Multiple endings. Multiple story routes. Your choices and failures affect the story in every way.
Platforming action — Run. Jump. Die. Scream at the screen. Repeat
Memorable characters — From a fish on fire to a cyclops lady, meet a colorful cast of characters along the way that can impact your story.
Single-try boss fights — Lost a boss fight? The game will not reset or give you a second chance. It will go on, incorporating your loss and changing the story accordingly.
Completely random crap — Maybe you’ll have to use a shopping cart to outrace bullish thugs? Perhaps you’ll have to write a company presentation or gamble with a street corner lunatic? Who knows?
An office chair – You can spin in it. Or mod it to feature rocket boosters.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

Even in early stages, creators and the community loved PEPPERED! Here’s what they had to say already during old demo playthroughs:

ManlyBadassHero: “I liked the office quite a bit… being chained to a ball and chain.” (570k views)
Weest: “it’s a hidden gem” (29k views)
AlphaBetaGamer: “an absurd adventure” (29k views)

People on Kickstarter thought we were cool enough to support us with their money.
More recently, Asmongold said “This Indie Game Is A Hidden Gem…” (288k views) and featured PEPPERED in the OTK Pixel Pitch.

Nominated as a finalist for best indie at INDIGO 2024
Nominated for excellence in narrative at DEVGAMM 2024
Finalist & Honorable mention at the Develop: Brighton Indie Showcase 2024

ABOUT THE DEVELOPER / PUBLISHER

Mostly Games is a Berlin-based indie development studio, working on its first game PEPPERED: an existential platformer. The core development team consists of Vasiliy Most as game designer and Natalia Gordeeva as pixel artist, with music and sound effects by Balashov Fedya.

Black Soup is a video game marketing agency and lite-publisher, helping developers and studios get their game in front of content creators on YouTube and Twitch. They are acting as a co-publisher for PEPPERED in collaboration with Mostly Games.

For more information, a review key, or a request for an interview with the developer behind PEPPERED, Vasiliy Most, please contact [email protected].