Pizza Towerfans are “fuming” and “f**king done” after seeing the game lose toThe Last of Us Part 1for “Best Soundtrack” at The Steam Awards.
As you’re all no-doubt aware of by now, 2023 was chock-full of bangers, from big releases likeSpider-Man 2,Alan Wake 2, andBaldur’s Gate 3, to smaller titles likeCocoon,Dredge, andVenba. One of the most overlooked games of the year, though, was Pizza Tower, an excellent Wario Land-esque title that quickly garnered a huge fanbase for its speedy platforming, heart-pumping soundtrack, and unlimited meme potential.
Despite getting some amazing reviews and being viewed by its community as one of the best platformers of the last decade, Pizza Tower hasn’t been quite so seen during awards season.Last month it lost out to Cocoon for the “Best Debut Indie Game” award at The Game Awards,which upset fans, but was at least a fair loss.
The latest snub is a whole lot more confusing, though.The Steam Awards 2023 went live yesterday and had some incredibly strange winners, includingRed Dead Redemption 2winning “Labour of Love” despite its online being left in the dust andStarfieldgetting “Most Innovative Gameplay” despite really just being another Bethesda game but this time set in space.
Those awards were already weird enough, but perhaps the most egregious example wasThe Last of Us Part 1 taking home the “Best Soundtrack” award and somehow beating out Pizza Tower. Not only is Pizza Tower beloved for its soundtrack (listen to the main theme at the gym - you’ll thank me later), but The Last of Us Part 1 is a remaster of a game from 2013 instead of something original.
Pizza Tower might have been snubbed twice now,but at least I have some taste as it sat in ninth place on my overall Game of the Year list.
Pizza Tower fans are reacting just as well as you’d expect from such a weird situation, with the game’s subreddit currently full of posts calling it out as a ridiculous situation.One post from Redditor bkggkfhlnswfhk shows The Last of Us' win with the caption, “I’m so fking done”, while another fromRedditor Waste-Editor1323 simply says “I AM FKING FUMING”.
While The Steam Awards have clearly been controversial for a number of communities, Pizza Tower getting snubbed for a second time in one month is a massive shame that’s hit its dedicated fans quite hard. Let’s hope that it gets its deserved time in the limelight at some point this year.
