Pizza Express

Pizza Express

Fair · RPG · 2015

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $0.90. Buy it if you want it.

Length
8.9h
Value
$0.10/hr
Reviews
82% of 282 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Full price

Fair$6.99

Today

−87%Fair
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.10/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $0.79/hr
Engagement2% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 65 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Pizza Express is a fast-paced restaurant simulation where you'll join the laborious Gastone and his wreckless friend Lucky in a tasty adventure which will bring you from zero to hero. Manage every aspect of your pizzeria and turn it into the best eatery in town!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 64 MB of video memory compatible with DirectX 8 or above, 72 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

83 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.90 at 87 percent off still sits 30 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Yes, Your Grace ($19.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall ($18.74, scores 32).

More about Pizza Express

Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The drop-off

36% start to 2% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

i tried, but this just isn't for me; i feel like pizza express gives you too much creative freedom and not enough actual freedom. it tells you you can create pizzas and sell what you like, but without indicating what can actually affect gameplay like the time of day and price selections. the ui is also kind of frustrating as you have to press repeated keys to shift menus instead of clicking through, and i kept...
lxetteNot recommendedafter 1.8hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It would have been fine if all you had to do was make pizza, earn money, and be able to use new toppings. In reality, it seems that a variety of factors influence the game, such as the choices you make in the story, the time of day you open your shop, and the amount of money you earn. On my first playthrough, I didn't get to increase the number of dough types, and I finished before I'd used many of the toppings...
ROUTENot recommendedafter 2.3hDec 2024Read on Steam
100% fox's friend yapping too much 100% pricy pizza 100% worth it, got it on -87% discount 100% got scammed from the supplier
ඞ χεΠ ඞRecommendedafter 3.0hSep 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Pizza Express scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/375250/pizza-express
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOnni Interactive
PublisherPlug In Digital
GenreRPG
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements160