Slice & Dice: Pizza Survival

About Slice & Dice: Pizza Survival

Slice & Dice: Pizza Survival is a chaotic hybrid of cooking sim and tower defense set in 2098 New City. Developed by SoundByte Interactive, it drops you into Mario Meatballs’ pizza shop, where days are spent juggling orders and nights are a fight for survival against diet-obsessed fanatics. Released on October 22, 2025, the game runs on PC. By day, you manage ingredients, customize menus, and satisfy customers. By night, you equip pizza launchers and meatball grenades to rep waves of enemies. The story follows Mario’s struggle to keep his business alive in a world obsessed with synthetic food. It’s a wild mix of resource management and action, wrapped in a neon-soaked satire of food trends.

Gameplay

The game splits into two distinct modes. During the day, you manage your shop: restock toppings, balance finances, and serve customers through a streamlined cooking interface. Nights shift to real-time tower defense, where you deploy traps, weapons, and allies to survive enemy waves. Each night introduces new threats, like health enforcers who resist explosive sauces. Multiplayer co-op adds strategy, as teammates handle different roles, defending walls or crafting traps. The controls are responsive, with quick-switching between tools and weapons. Progress unlocks customization options, like pizza recipes and shop upgrades. The pace is frantic but structured, balancing long-term planning with reactive combat.

What Players Think

PlayPile users rate the game 7.8/10, with 18% completing all 40+ story levels. Average playtime is 4.5 hours, though co-op sessions often stretch longer. Community moods are split: 32% call it “addictive,” while 25% gripe about repetitive night shifts. Critics praise the creative enemy designs (“Crazy for the carb-free crusaders!”) but note daytime sim elements feel undercooked. Achievement completion sits at 71% on average, with 38 total milestones, including “Throw 1,000 pepperoni grenades.” Reviews highlight the multiplayer co-op as a standout, but some players find balancing day and night modes too punishing.

PlayPile's Take

Slice & Dice is a niche pick for fans of overlapping genres. The $19.99 price tag is fair for the chaos, but the daytime sim lacks depth compared to its night mode. With 38 achievements and co-op support, it’s best played with friends. Stick to it if you enjoy hybrid mechanics and don’t mind grinding through late-game waves. Skip it if you prefer streamlined experiences. The game thrives on its absurdity, but don’t expect polish, this is a pizza-fueled experiment, not a masterpiece.

Storyline

The year is 2098 and the culinary landscape has gone off the deep end. After the Great Gluten Panic of 2072, most people in New City turned their backs on real food entirely, replacing meals with nutrient pods and synthetic flavor cartridges. Pizza, once a symbol of warmth is now labeled “marinara paraphernalia"& opening up a Za shop is about as dangerous as smuggling contraband cheese. But one man didn’t get the memo. Meet Mario Meatballs Armed with nothing but a dream and a rolling pin, Mario sets up shop where the neon lights fade...on the outskirts of New City. By day, he slings piping-hot pies and questionable hamburgers to the few brave souls who still crave the taste of something real. By night, he defends his shop against waves of Carb-Free Crusaders, Health Enforcers, and other diet-less driven fanatics determined to snuff out his saucy rebellion. In a world that’s lost its taste, Mario Meatballs is serving up resistance one doughy, sauce-splattered slice at a time. In this thrilling pizza-making simulation with a dash of tower defense, you'll step into Mario's shoes and manage every aspect of running a brick-and-mortar shop by day then at night fend off hordes of crazed lunatics and other totally normal things for a small business owner.