Completely chaotic

The mission? Eat the giant pizza belonging to the village leader, Bella Chonki. But you’ll have to bypass or outrun Bella’s security guards on the way. Not to mention gobble up everything in sight in order to obtain a key to unlock the next location. Don’t worry my young possum, you’ll be able to obtain useful items on your journey.

Pizza Possum is very much an arcade style game, so it makes for a quick play. The objective is to make it to the very top without getting caught. To do this, you can stealthily avoid the guards by hiding in bushes or staying out of sight. Alternatively, you can just cause chaos and attempt to outrun them. Each time you get caught, the points you gain (by eating everything in your path) will go towards unlocking new items that can randomly spawn in the crates during a playthrough such as smoke bombs, espresso, dog masks, etc. You can only carry one item at a time, so choose carefully.

All in all, it's an enjoyable little game to play in short bursts. You can play it differently on each runthrough since there are multiple paths to journey through and you can try different items. Pizza Possum also offers multiplayer which may add to the chaos but equally adds to the fun. Despite this, it did get a little boring and frustrating after a few run throughs, especially once I finally beat a round.

When you open a crate, you automatically pick up whatever is in that box. Sometimes crates were in tough spots, so if you didn’t want it to replace the item you already had, you would have to move away from the item and then return to pick it back up. I feel like this could have been implemented in the controls rather than an auto pick-up. The last few areas of the game also left little room to be stealthy. You were forced to use items such as the smoke bombs or dog masks, and if you didn’t have them, you were almost guaranteed to fail. The game almost wants you to fail so you can unlock more items and play longer, but I feel like that should have been optional.

It was a fun time and I think it is well worth the low cost, but I think there were some things that could have elevated the experience for me.

If you are looking for local co-op games to play with your significant other this is a great choice. Fun gameplay, extremely amusing voice acting, charming visuals. The only frustrating thing is how the split screen shifts depending on where you two are compared to each other but it is practical in a way that it makes it easier to find each other on a rather large map. And well, the game is really short. It only has a single level. After getting all achievements we didn't feel like replaying it anymore but I would love to come back to play more if they ever added new levels or made a sequel.

This game is really adorable and really fun! I played by myself but I'm sure it's more fun with friends! It was fun to sneak around and then try to get away from the guards if they did see you. The animations and sounds are just perfect and so so silly!

I only have two complaints, the first being that it was close to impossible to make it to the "end" of the game, as there were any power-ups to fend off the enemies with and you get restarted pretty hard if you fail. You can only play the game for a bit, otherwise it gets repetitive.