The Pepper Prince: Episode 1 - Red Hot Chili Wedding

For me this game is just very enjoyable. I love the simplistic ASCII-art graphics combined with the strange universe, music and characters. I recommend this game to everybody who likes point'n'click adventures and also something different from the mainstream. Also big plus for the developer who helped me when I was stuck without giving me the solution but instead gave me enough hints so I could feel the satisfaction of finally being able to solve the next part of the journey myself!

The Pepper Prince: Episode 1 - Red Hot Chili Wedding is a DSG friendly point and click/ASCII text adventure game with a fairy-tale theme. Gameplay consists of looking at a text based interface and wondering what year it is. The game was slapped together with the godawful GameMaker Studio construction kit. GameMaker Studio is a very poor quality game construction kit, and unsurprisingly results in products that have little to no value as games, especially when compared to the work of professional developers who create genuine products for gamers. Using a video game construction kit requires little to no talent or skill as a game developer. Very often, GameMaker Studio is used to make shovelware and lazy cash grabs. The game is badly written and features distasteful jokes and a politicised agenda. Politics and social issues are best handled outside of video gaming. They chose to use obsolete retro ASCII "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Resolution and controls are locked. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC. While this appears to be a free game, it's not, it's just a demo and the developer is charging a significant amount of money (for a text based game) to unlock the rest of the game... some of which has not even been completed yet and may never be. There's a correct method to flag things as advertisements, promos and demos on Steam, and that process hasn't been followed here, possibly as an effort to mislead gamers. The incomplete nature of this "free" game plus the quality issues render this of an unacceptably low standard for me to recommend.

Okay, I loved this game. It's simple, it's not overly easy or overly hard (some puzzles had stumped me for awhile but I was able to eventually figure it out). I liked the story, it was cute (although I need more seasons please!!!) but it also was short too. My only issue with the game is that it's not finished (as of writing this review, only season 2 is out). But I did really love the ascii art and thought some of the in-game jokes were pretty cute and funny. Overall, if you enjoy short and cute games, I would definitely give this game a try.

The sound, oh my dear friend Is key for one's mind to bend, Around the story that's told here Experienced with few a gear. Easy the intuition goes and lack the game does any woes, enjoy this ride of yours so fast as I will wait for episodes more at last.

Tolles Spiel, habe schon den ersten Teil online gespielt. Macht Spaß die Welt zu erkunden, und das Puzzle Stück für Stück zusammenzufügen. Freue mich schon auf die nächsten Teile!

I would recommend this game to anyone that enjoys a relaxing and funny little adventure game. Despite the time played, it lasted me about half an hour (I left it up when I had to go AFK or actually do some work). It's a fun little diversion and I can't wait to try the other episodes. It was, by far, not a challenging game- the puzzles are fairly simple. This made it the perfect little diversion for working from home/lock down.

I got this in a bundle. I expected to hate it and move on to something else within minutes. Turns out I really enjoyed it and played through the first episode in one sitting (not hard, it's pretty short). I like it so much I'm gonna go ahead and buy the whole thing. May end up being a little over priced due to the brevity, but it is fairly enjoyable.