Peppered: an existential platformer is a game that'll make you pay not just for your choices, but your sucky platforming skills, too

PEPPERED: an existential platformer TRAILER - YouTubeWatch On Peppered: an existential platformer, which releases today (April 7, if you're reading this from the future), is shaping up to be a fascinating little exercise in interactivity. As you might've surmised from the title of the thing, it's 100% a platformer—the 'existential' bit comes from the looming doom that'll haunt your every step. Especially the wrong steps, which you'll be making frequently.Peppered is a game where you only get "one" shot to save the world. That's in quotes, because Peppered isn't actually a roguelike level of masochistic—see, in the far-flung, alien-filled future, the god of death's been locked away. Every so often, the person who did it brings a super important star to its prison in order to keep it under wraps.Only—the guy didn't show up. You play a prospective coffee intern at the terrible company charged with holding onto it, which has sat twiddling its thumbs for six hours already. You decide (or do...