October 27th, 2025, 5:26AM
Pizza Tower used to be my favorite game.
I played alot of the Beta builds back during the Kickstarter era, I adored the gameplay and
how it was like the Wario Land series.
Recently, my friend said he would gift me the game for my birthday, I had always wanted the final game, but by the time it released, I didn't have enough to buy it.
I was too busy with life anyways.
My birthday arrived, my celebration was not very eventful, I never had birthday parties growing up. Notably my friend who had promised to gift me the game was mysteriously
absent today, they hadn't even messaged me today. I just thought maybe they were busy, my birthday did happen to land on a weekday anyways.
It's been a few days, and I haven't heard from them, but randomly I was sent the gift, it had no actual words in the gift message, only a single character, "]".
I found that strange, but I was happy that he finally got me the game, I've seen so much gameplay of the final build, even watching one of my other friends complete the game.
I can't wait to play it, i'll start playing tomorrow.
I booted up the game, everything looked around the same as when my friend played it.
I started a save and got in, I did the tutorial and started playing.
I was really enjoying my time with the game, and everything was looking fine, until I entered Bloodsauce Dungeon.
I never really enjoyed this stage in the Kickstarter builds, but it was alright in the final game, something strange happened however.
I had just gotten the secret treasure, when I noticed a new door spawn on the room after.
I entered the room and saw another treasure??
It was strange to me because when my friend played the game this didn't happen, was this an update?
Anyways, I grabbed it and I saw letters appear on the bottom of my screen, it reminded me of the old Pizza Tower builds, but this message made no sense to me.
"YGTB"
I have no idea what this means, but I went on anyways. I cleared the level, but I got no rank results, it just booted me back to the hub world.
I found this really weird, as every other level gave you a rank, but this one didn't? My friend got a rank on this stage when I watched him play, so what happened?
Another thing, why do I have big key? I haven't even fought the boss, I remember very clearly that you had to beat the boss to get the key.
Maybe I was just misremembering, I went to floor 2, to see no levels there, just the door to floor 3.
I remember my friend saying floor 2 wasn't that good, but I wanted to play it anyways.
Maybe it was just an update, I went to floor 3. But I only saw one level.
Gnome Forest.
I thought gnome forest had a cool concept for a stage in the early builds, where you had to deliver pizza.
I watched my friend play it before, I thought the final version of it was awesome too, playing as Gustavo.
It was weird that there was only 1 level here now, but I decided to just go with it, I'll see whats wrong with my copy after I'm done.
I went into gnome forest and started playing it.
Something weird I noticed is that there was no Gustavo anymore, I was disappointed, but I kept going.
I also noticed none of the people who wanted pizza were there either.
When I hit john, there was no timer. I went to the start of the level and left.
I got a D rank due to my lack of toppins.
When I exited the level, the door was already open, so I went to the next floor.
For some reason, it skipped floor 4, only going to floor 5. This was very strange, but I tried to assure myself that it's likely just a minor glitch.
Floor 5 was also empty, I remember seeing my friend superjump to get to the final boss, so I did the same.
The hallway to the top of the tower was creepy, but it was like that for my friend's playthrough, so I wasn't concerned.
I went to the top of the tower and started the Pizzaface boss.
I always thought this final boss was awesome when I saw my friend play it, the ending was so cool.
My favorite part was the boss rush, seeing those bosses you fought earlier.
I started fighting him, but when I got to phase 2, I noticed Pizzahead ran faster than usually, I remember rewatching the final boss fight alot on Youtube, so I would know this.
I beat phase 2, but as soon as I got to phase 3, something really, really weird happened.
Something I know for sure, wasn't a glitch.
The same text appeared from before, "YGTB". I watched as Peppino drank the bloodsauce, before black text showing on screen, "YOU DRANK THE BLOODSAUCE."
The font wasn't even one that was in the game, it stayed there, for 10 seconds. Before returning to gameplay, except I couldn't control Peppino.
He turned red and burnt, the graphics on him looked horrific. I don't even know how they put this in a game that was usually so pixelated.
I don't wish to show an image, as this is too graphic for anyone else to see.
It cut to black again, before abruptly cutting back to the game, with Pepperman bleeding on the floor, dead.
At this point I knew something was wrong, I tried to close the game, but it wouldn't work.
It then cut to the noise being mutilated. His body was torn apart.
Fake peppino was bloody and beat, before I saw Peppino rip them apart.
The Vigilante wasn't there for some odd reason.
Pizzahead looked scared, crying. The screen cut to black, Pizzahead was mutilated aswell.
Peppino slowly started to walk down the tower, starting the final stage, The Crumbling Tower of Pizza.
As Peppino walked to john, you could see John crying, as if they were begging for mercy.
Peppino crushed them to pieces. I watched as Peppino ran down the tower, speeding past floor 5, but I noticed.
The enemies weren't even fighting back, they were scared. Crying.
Peppino then killed them all, not in the way pizza tower usually defeats enemies, there was blood, and gore.
As Peppino ran down to Floor 4, I realize why it was skipped, there was dead bodies everywhere, I then froze in shock.
I saw a picture of my friend. I recognized their body, it was a picture of them dead. I wanted to cry, I wanted to turn off my computer.
But something drew me in, I had to see the end, why whoever did this, did this.
Peppino ran down floor 3, but in floor 2, it was weird, it was the Vigilante boss room, and I watched as the Vigilante slowly walked into the stage, with blood the blood of their friends on their body.
Peppino's sprites starting glitching, briefly showing pictures of my friend's face. For privacy reasons, I censored his face.
The screen went black for a second, displaying another message.
"YOU KILLED THEM ALL."
I could only assume this is what the Vigilante said, the fight begins.
I was still unable to control Peppino, but they were dodging every attack.
I was secretly hoping the Vigilante would win, but eventually Peppino got them down to their last health.
Peppino then killed the Vigilante, showing a full gore image of his body.
Peppino then walked down to floor 1, killing everything in sight.
As he walked into the door to the end of the game, he briefly glanced at me. This sent chills down my spine.
When he entered the gate, it played the rank fanfare, but at a slower tempo. It was terrifying.
The rank animation paused midway through, Peppino was blankly staring at me. I could see the blood on his face, his eyes.
The horror of it all, but before I could take a picture. My computer shut off.
I couldn't turn it back on. When I went to check inside my computer, the GPU looked burnt, this wasn't normal. I know it.
I just told myself "This was probably just a virus, i'll get it fixed tomorrow."
But deep inside, I knew this was more than that.
I tried to sleep, but the images of Peppino, and the gore, wouldn't leave my mind. But randomly, in the middle of the night.
I heard a knock.
I looked through the door viewer, and I saw a dark figure, covered in blood. They were waiting for me to answer.
I ran to my room, and hid under the bed.
I then heard glass break.
They broke into my house, and now, they're looking for me.
I stayed under my bed, not moving an inch.
Eventually, they left my house. But I stayed under there the entire night.
When it was finally morning, I grabbed my computer, and other things I needed.
I'm fleeing my home, I cannot trust that I won't get killed.
I tried to call 911, but they thought it was a prank call.
As I'm typing this, I am on the road, I am leaving my state and settling at a hotel for now.
I got my PC fixed at the repair shop beforehand, before I left, I briefly checked my files, and the directory where Pizza Tower was installed to looked different.
The game now read: "]"
I will play it again when I go to my hotel, for now. I need atleast some people to see this.
I'm uploading all my current findings to this website.
I will update you all as soon as I can.