The Short Bread Game

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This game is as short and sweet as short bread [h3] Strengths [/h3] [list][*]The biggest selling point of the game is the cute pixel art of the animals, background, and bakery items [*]Each level has new scenery/background and a few with new mechanics [*]Funny dialogue between bunny and short bread [*]Liked special whale level [*]Short and sweet game (takes 30 minutes-one hour to beat) [/list] [h3] Growths[/h3] [list][*]Controls need some work. Here are some things I noticed: when original played it felt slow, floaty, and a bit unresponsive, then I got used to the controls. However there are some things such as occasionally getting stuck and can't move on platforms, etc. (Definitely needs more fixing there) [/list] Developer(s), I am very grateful to you that you have made this game. You deserve a pat on the back for all the effort and care you put into developing this. For it is both really fun, free, and such a huge feat to actually spend months creating a game from scratch.Kudos to you! Sending best wishes to you, the game, and future developments.

Bir parça ekmeğin kahvaltı için fırına gitmesine yardım ettiğiniz rahat bir platform oyunudur. Oraya giden yolunuz en direkt yol olmasa da, büyüleyici yerleri keşfedeceksiniz. Yükseklere zıplayın, düşmanlardan kaçın ve tuhaf yeni arkadaşınızla esprili diyaloglara girin. Macera sizi bekliyor!

The bread moves SOOOO SLOWLY that it's a pain to try finish the game Not too mention that it's super sensitive, the bread didn't even touch the enemies yet but just a few nano pixels close and the bread died just by being too close to them :( The art is cute but i'd rather not waste my time

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[h3] I'm currently doing a challenge to play through a free game in every single category on steam. I then give an honest review using ChatGPT. [/h3] Game: 127 / 447 [b] Category: 2D Platformer [/b] "Cute, but Crusty Around the Edges" In this game, you play as an adorable piece of bread making its way to the bakery. The concept is charming, and the overall vibe is super chill. The pixel art is delightful, with some genuinely cute designs, but a few of the background assets feel unfinished, which pulls you out of the experience a bit. The biggest frustrations are with the gameplay mechanics. The controls have an annoying delay when stopping, which makes navigating tight spaces unnecessarily tricky. And the hitboxes for enemies? Bad. In a pixel art game, hitboxes should be pixel-perfect, but here they feel inconsistent—dying when your bread slice isn’t even touching an enemy is just plain unfair. With some polish—tightened controls, better hitboxes, and a bit more care in the art—this game could rise like a well-baked loaf. For now, it’s more of a slightly undercooked snack than a fully satisfying meal.

if by 'cozy' you mean 'rage bait' because my STUPID bread moves SLOW as ♥♥♥♥ then sure, it's cozy

Congrats! You've done it. With a search combination of 'short' and 'free', you've officially reached the bottom of the barrel. The Short Bread Game is a game about pancakes and trust. Beat it in 45 min using a combo of the keyboard and mouse. Difficulty is: Rage Bait. This game feels like a 'first game' for a developer. In which case, good job! You made a game! For anyone playing, be prepared for 9 levels of slow toast, and controls not responding. Sir Toasticles cannot walk a straight line without hitting an invisible pixel and getting stuck. The story is bare bones and halfway incomprehensible. Enemies can one-hit KO you, and their hit boxes extend well beyond their touch radius. The breadite runs about as fast as dinner with Grandma, and jumps about as well as her, too. On one occasion, I had to walk past the platform and stand on air in order to make a jump to another platform. Other times, the rocks would spin and make jumping unresponsive. There are no directions for what the controls do anywhere. I started with the keyboard, and then couldn't find the key to advance text to had to move to left-clicking on the mouse. Bringing up the menu? Not esc. Not Enter. Right-click. Does the menu take you back to the levels? Yes. Does it quit the game? No. To quit, I had to manually close the game by escaping to my desktop for air. Is the game cute? Nauseatingly so. Is it cozy? As cozy as bricks in a fire. Is it short? Without the issues, you could bean this game in under 10 minutes, with it, longer. Do I recommend this game? Only if you're sadistic and a special sort of bored.

"The Short Bread Game" is at least genuinely made... it's one of several thousand godawful 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of video games everywhere. This one at least has a cute, novel breakfast theme, but that's not really what the tired old platformer genre needed to revive it from the dead. This features really godawful, lazy pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Sure, it's only been out less than 2 weeks, but if you look at the trends for these kinds of games, it's not going to get any better. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.