Pizza Possum – Review

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Video games and Pizza, the perfect combination… If you’ve got an 8-year-old who’s easily distracted or maybe you’ve tried role-playing as a possum, you may know stolen pizza is the best of all.

Pizza Possum is a stealth-action game from indie development studio Cosy Computer, coming in at a bitesize 1.2gb in size and an appetising £5.99, maybe this could be a great game to play with the family after you’ve finished picking the pineapples off that Hawaiin Pizza.

When you start off with Pizza Possum, you’re given a quick overview of the village, with the Dog leader Bella cooking up a giant pizza, while you, our ravenous possum is by the coast catching a whiff of freshly baked dough.

You’ll need to work your way through the village, patrolled by guard dogs, as you sneak from one area to the next, to eventually steal the Pizza, right from under Bella’s nose.

If alerted to your presence, the guard dogs will give chase, and getting caught sends you back to the start, or one of the sparsely placed checkpoints. When I first started off, I was caught by the first guard within seconds thanks to very little handholding, but you’ll soon figure out, you need to guide our possum friend to anything edible so he can gobble it all up and build up points, at set targets, these points will award you a key to unlock a nearby gate allowing you to move on to the next area.

Avoiding guard dogs is fairly easy to get to grips with, each has a pre-defined route, and as long as they aren’t looking directly at you, you’re free to walk behind them, as you move through the streets, you can hope into a bush for cover, or use the predictable patrols in your favour as you grab any food you see lying around.

There’s a handful of larger platters, such