Introspection can be quite difficult. Looking inward, picking yourself apart, examining your past through an objective lens, honestly acknowledging your faults… name a more difficult task for an individual in the year 2025. Yet, the characters in Eric Osuna’s A Pizza Delivery do it with ease. As they examine themselves, perhaps you’ll learn something about yourself on the way.
A Pizza Delivery is a surreal, narrative-focused indie with light puzzle elements. You wear the red visor of B, a deliveryperson trying to deliver her last pizza of the day. Her moped scoots her from place to place, and those landscapes shift from locations like a dark, creepy city to an orange-lit cemetery in a forest. They’re all very atmospheric, invoking specific moods. As the kids would say, A Pizza Delivery is a very vibes-based game, and the synth score and piano melodies from composer LaFrancessa go a long way in making those vibes chill.
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While out on deliveries, there’s some light puzzle solving to tackle along the way, but they don’t interfere with the flow of the narrative. Whereas in most other games rain just makes characters wet and shiny, it’s a real challenge to overcome in A Pizza Delivery. People might like cold pizza (weirdos), but no one likes a soggy pie, and a few challenges involve navigating a pizza through a level while rain pours down.
In some ways, A Pizza Delivery is a bit like the Death Stranding titles (minus the gunky monsters and eerie babies) and their focus on building human connection. B has a second pizza on her, and shares it with the folks she comes across. Just like in real life, there’s no more human way to bond with someone than over food.
Noby, living in a dark and uninviting city, feels stuck in the past, unable to progress further. He’s lost some color, parts of him turning grey like a statue, and the same can happen to B if she lingers for too long on a bench, showing us that moving forward is the only way to progress — even when we don’t know what we’re progressing toward, like B.
Backpack Guy opens up to B perhaps more than anyone she comes across. He’s alone, struggling to understand how his near-perfect relationship ultimately felt hollow in the end. “Don’t you feel like everything is happening very fast?” he asks, and, oh boy, do I.
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B doesn’t always know how to answer the questions of Backpack Guy and the others. Hell, she doesn’t always know how to offer up a slice of pie, at one point extending an open box toward someone and just saying, “Um…” She’s a little nervous, a little awkward, a little confused, and wholly relatable. I’m not sure if by the end of her short, two-hour journey she’s found change, but I certainly felt changed by the time credits rolled.
A Pizza Delivery is the type of game that’s best when you sit back and let it come to you, when you let yourself ponder the same questions its introspective characters are struggling to answer. It might be best played on a dark, rainy day, when the world outside your window is too uninviting to journey through, and you’d rather stay at home with some pizza. Even if it’s cold.
A Pizza Delivery is out now on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X. The game was reviewed on PS5 using a prerelease download code provided by Dolores Entertainment. You can find additional information about Polygon’s ethics policy here.