PEPPERED: an existential platformer
Pixel-art platformer where failures and choices change the story
Mostly Games · Published by Mostly Games, Black Soup · Released Apr 7, 2025
- Reviews
- Overwhelmingly Positive
- 96% of 717
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 100% of 12 in 30 days
- Players
- 1
- daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Last update on Steam
- 7 months ago
- Mar 7, 2026
- Minimum PC
- –
- not published
What is PEPPERED: an existential platformer?
This pixel-art platformer follows an office intern who tries to prevent doomsday as the police, crowds, and media turn against them. You run and jump through platforming sections, fight bosses, sneak past people, explore, and make choices in dialogue and action. Your decisions and failures lead to different story routes and endings.
For you if...
- +you enjoy dark humor and branching stories with multiple endings
- +you like boss fights where losing changes the story
Not for you if...
- −you want to retry boss fights before the story continues
- −you prefer platforming without golf sections or minigames
What players say
96% of 717 reviews are positive · 100% of 12 in the last 30 days
Players praise the humor, characters, branching story, pixel art, and music. Some find the platforming basic or clunky and say the golf sections slow the pace. Replaying levels to see other endings also frustrates some players.
How many players finish PEPPERED: an existential platformer?
78% of Steam players have unlocked «Ending 1: God of Debts.», the achievement for finishing the main story.
Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.
Screenshots and trailer
PEPPERED: an existential platformer system requirements
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run PEPPERED: an existential platformer?
The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- TBA
Does PEPPERED: an existential platformer have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does PEPPERED: an existential platformer run on Steam Deck?
Verified Yes, Verified by Valve: it works on Steam Deck out of the box.
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Shows Steam Deck controller icons
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 11
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
- Languages
- Text only: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.
Does PEPPERED: an existential platformer use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Story Rich
- Pixel Graphics
- Difficult
- Replay Value
- Precision Platformer
- Singleplayer
- Choices Matter
- Psychological
- Action-Adventure
- Puzzle Platformer
- Dark Humor
- Multiple Endings
- Perma Death
- LGBTQ+
- Soundtrack
- Atmospheric
Recent updates
- Sep 17, 2025 · Minor Patch
- Sep 12, 2025 · RED COINS UPDATE IS OUT
- May 2, 2025 · PEPPERED Patch, Version 1.0.1
- Sep 30, 2024 · NEW DEMO UPDATE