Pizza Tower might be the best 2D platformer I've played since Hollow Knight, and if you want to restrict that to non-metroidvanias, I gotta go back to 2014's Shovel Knight for anything this good ...

It’s called Pizza Tower, and it is, in all seriousness, one of the best 2D platformers I’ve played in a long time. I’m late here, as Pizza Tower arrived on PC in January.

Pizza Tower is already a game of the year contender in a packed 2023, with some of the crispiest, most inspired 2D platforming of the past 10 years forming the dough underneath that gorgeous art ...