Travel through time, blast enemies, and cook under fire with up to 4 players to fund your dream pizzeria. Guns, gadgets, and dough—what could go wrong?

Pizza Bandit is what happens when a third-person shooter crashes headfirst into a cooking show — bullets, bounties, and burnt crusts flying everywhere. In this mission-based, 4-player co-op adventure, you play as an ex-mercenary chasing an oddly specific dream: opening the galaxy’s greatest pizza joint.

Armed with time-travel tech and a questionable business plan, you’ll dive into chaotic eras, take down dangerous targets, and cook under pressure—literally. From flipping dough in a warzone to seasoning your kills with style, every mission is a high-stakes recipe for disaster… and maybe, just maybe, your dream pizzeria.

Get ready to take on diverse missions that test both your trigger finger and your culinary skills. You’ll have to dodge relentless enemy attacks while cooking under pressure—chopping, assembling, and plating meals mid-battle. It’s not just about firepower, but about precision, multitasking, and keeping your cool when the kitchen turns into a warzone.

The kitchen is open, and it’s extremely flammable!

Indie studio JofSoft has officially launched Pizza Bandit into Early Access on Steam and Epic Games Store at $24.99 (with a 10% launch-week discount), where it will remain for about 6-12 months.

“The Early Access version will include a wide range of character customization, eight missions(7 distinct types) plus a tutorial mission, 11 weapons, seven gadget varieties, a weapon modification system, and full restaurant customization. We've also added a restaurant prestige system and a cookable pizza oven that will give you and your team additional buffs. A decent amount of achievements will also be available.”

“At Full release, along with additional weapons, gadgets, and achievements, we'll be adding mission variations to increase replayability, higher-tier difficulty warp stations, more monster varieties, and competitive leaderboards to track and showcase their achievements.”

The ovens are hot and the portals are humming—Early Access is just the beginning. We’ve got a lot on the menu, so here’s your first look at what’s coming down the pipeline.

Restricted Timeline – Black Bounty

The Black Bounty Finder is finally open. This warp station leads to the Restricted Timeline, a sealed parallel world where reality itself has gone rotten.

• Black Contracts: High-risk, high-reward missions.

• Exclusive Bosses & Missions: Face Dread Time Reapers and horrors found nowhere else.

• Twisted Locations: Familiar maps, but darker and deadlier.

New Gear, New Arsenal, New Playstyles

Your pizza cutter won’t cut it forever. The battlefield’s heating up, and so is your arsenal:

• Pineapple Bombs: Sweet, explosive chaos.

• Dough Traps: Sticky sabotage for enemy slows.

• Flamethrower: The most requested weapon finally arrives.

• Fresh Gear: Items that completely reshape your playstyle.

Hell’s Kitchen – Burn and Survive

Step into the ultimate survival challenge: Hell’s Kitchen.

• Endless waves of Time Reapers, escalating into Dread-class assaults.

• Brutal modifiers and shifting conditions—no two runs are the same.

• Escape to claim your spot in the Hall of Bandits, with exclusive rewards for top survivors.

Frequent Updates Along the Way

Between these bigger content drops, we’ll keep things fresh with:

• Quality-of-life improvements

• Bug and balance fixes

• Performance tweaks

• New cosmetics and customization options

Your feedback will guide us every step of the way.

Console Launch with 1.0

The dream doesn’t stop at PC. When Pizza Bandit hits 1.0 next year, we’re planning a simultaneous launch on consoles so more Bandits around the world can join the feast.

We’re not announcing exact platforms yet, but the ovens are warming.

The Road Ahead

Early Access is just the first slice. With your help, we’ll refine, expand, and perfect Pizza Bandit into a full-course experience worthy of its grand opening.

Stay hungry, Bandits. The best slices are still in the oven.

Every mission starts in the loadout screen—so choose wisely. Your skills matter just as much as your guns, especially when you’re juggling bounties and baking. Scavenge ingredients and weapon parts mid-mission to upgrade your arsenal. Score big with bounty contracts to unlock deadlier tools and spicier skills. Between bounty runs, you’ll funnel your hard-earned credits into the dream: a pizzeria worth fighting (and frying) for. Buy furniture, kitchen appliances, neon lights, and wall decor to customize your future five-star hotspot. Just don’t ask where the funding came from.

Dress like the unhinged culinary assassin you are. Mix and match outfits, highlight colors, glowing accessories, hairstyles, and skin tones. Whether you’re channeling streetwear chef or intergalactic food warlord, the drip is yours to command. (Facial and body morphing not included)

Key Features:

• Dodge Rolling into Action: In combat, the best way to survive is to roll and weave through enemies and bullets with deadly precision.  Enemies aren’t just fast—they're unreasonably angry, absurdly persistent, and definitely not fans of your cooking.
• Adrenaline-Fueled Encounters: Fast-paced battles demand quick reflexes and even quicker thinking. 
• Missions & Combat: Gameplay meshes iconic mission and combat mechanics such as pizza baking in Overcooked with over-the-shoulder, third-person shooting in Gears of War.  Each mission has five tiers of difficulty that reap bonus rewards the higher the difficulty. 
• Customizable Weapons: Players can modify their weapons with a range of components discovered during missions. Strategically combining these components in specific sequences can enhance weapons with new effects and improvements.  
• Bounty Contracts: Undertaking bounty contracts with specific objectives spanning multiple missions yields extra rewards (experience, loot, and cash) and unlocks new weapons and equipment, enhancing the gameplay experience. 
• 1-4 Player Online Co-Op: Mission difficulty adjusts to squad size, however, sometimes the biggest challenge is coordinating with allies. Friendly fire is allowed, adding another layer of tension and strategy.  

Pizza Bandit is in development for PC and consoles, scheduled for 2026.