Ciao!
We were teasing a surprise for a while now and it’s finally time to unveil the details!
Please welcome an online competitive mode to Pizza Slice - Inferno Kitchen!
In Inferno Kitchen you will be divided into two teams of up to 3 players for an ultimate challenge of your pizza making skills! Similar to your favourite cooking shows on TV, the teams will have to gather ingredients from an open pantry, set up their stations and start preparing food. The invited guests will soon start to take their assigned tables and order items from Stefano’s Cookbook (no custom recipes in this mode), so you will need to be fast, precise and well coordinated to earn as many points as possible.
There are two stages to each round of the match:
The Preparation Stage
You will have 75 seconds to set up your stations, bring in some ingredients and start making the dough. It’s up to your team to divide the work, so you will need to communicate like in a real kitchen.
The Cooking Stage
Here is where the real challenge begins - guests will start entering the dining room, ordering an item from your cookbook. Each team will have their own separate orders, so you’re not rushing to be the first to serve but to actually cover all of the demand placed on your team. Be prepared to frantically run to the pantry for that one veggie you didn’t prep yet or setting up an additional saucing station to gain access to a white sauce.
Your pizzas will be judged by the guests in exactly the same fashion as in the single player campaign. The goal is simple - earn more stars than the opposing team before the round ends. This means you not only need to work fast but be precise in the amount of ingredients and sauce you put on the pizza.
This stage takes 333 seconds.
There are two rounds in a match. If there is a draw at the end of round 2, an additional, third round will commence.
Joining a match
The online mode will work in a P2P (peer to peer) system, meaning one player will be hosting the match for other players.
The host player will be able to invite guests through a unique code that needs to be shared to other players. Guest players will paste that code when joining in to a game. The code is necessary for all the players to end up in the same lobby. Once all players are in, the host will be able to start the match.
A quick match will also be available - players will select their region, the preferred team size and the matchmaking will do the rest.
We had a blast testing this mode out and we hope you will thoroughly enjoy it when Pizza Slice launches on March 13!
Launch information
Let’s recap how the launch day will look like.
LAUNCH HOURS
Here are the launch hours for major regions:
March 13:
USA - 06:00 am PT
USA - 09:00 am ET
United Kingdom - 02:00 pm GMT / UTC
Germany / Poland / France - 15:00 CET
India - 07:30 pm IST
China - 22:00 CST
Japan - 23:00 JST
March 14:
Australia - 01:00 am AEDT
New Zealand - 03:00 NZDT
PRICING
The game’s global game price is set to 14,99 USD.
We’re planning a launch celebration discount of -20%, so grab the game while the offer lasts!
For those of you, who want even more bang for the buck, we will have some awesome bundles with other titles waiting for you on launch day as well.
Join our Discord server to keep in touch with the game’s community and find sparring partners for Inferno Kitchen!
See you at the table!
The Pizza Slice Team