Platform game
Pepper Grinder
Abbie Stone finds management is thrilled to have drill-equipped staff!
SPECS
Minimum
OS: Ubuntu 22.04
CPU: Intel Core i5 4570, AMD A105800K APU
Mem: 8GB
GPU: GeForce GTX 650, Radeon HD 7750, Iris Pro Graphics 580. OpenGL 2.1+, 1GB VRAM
HDD: 300MB
When is a drill not a drill? When it’s a gun.
Poor Pepper. She’s the star of Devolver Digital’s new Drill baby, drill! platformer, but she would be laughed off the stage at the Annual Platforming Protagonist Awards. Not that she’d have much luck leaving that stage unassisted. Pepper’s hobbled with a pathetic jump, a mediocre little hop that can barely get her a few feet off the ground. So, it’s a stroke of good fortune that she’s rammed her arm into a drill attachment that can send her swimming through dirt, then use her momentum to burst out and fly through the air.
Well, maybe less ‘good fortune’, more ‘mixed blessing’ and perhaps even ‘get this damn monkey’s paw off me’. It turns out that having a drill for an appendage can be quite cumbersome. Pepper drills through dirt a little faster than you’d like, demanding quick reflexes to move in something close enough to the direction you wanted to go, or at least a route that ideally doesn’t end in certain death. This is all completely by design, of course, and gradually mastering such a joyously unwieldy method of navigation makes for a terrific little platformer.