I am Bread is a quirky 3-D action game where you control a slice of bread as it flops around various locations. This slice of bread has one goal in mind: to be made into toast. Your goal in each level is to guide the piece of bread around obstacles and keep it from getting too dirty as you make it to the toaster in each area. I am Bread was originally available on PCs and the PS4, but now it’s also on iOS devices as well (reviewed on iPad here). So is the game the next best thing since sliced bread, or is it just milk toast? Read on to find out.

Each stage starts out with a letter from a psychiatric clinic with a report about a patient, who claims to be going insane by the moving bread. This part of the game is totally unnecessary and they could’ve removed it and the game wouldn’t be any worse for wear. Every level is labelled as a day in the week, and you must get to the toaster in the kitchen, the garage, etc. If you land on the floor or other obstacles like water or ants, your edibility percentage goes down. If it reaches zero, you lose the level. It kind of reminded me of playing ‘don’t touch the ground’ in the house when I was a kid.

To move the bread, just swipe on the touch screen in the direction you want the bread to go, and it’ll flop in that area (usually). This amazing slice of dough can also climb walls; just make it flop next to a vertical surface and alternately swipe on the left and right sides of the screen and it’ll scale up the wall! You can also tap near the bread to nudge it slightly.

Unfortunately, the play control is so bad that I couldn’t even make it past the first level, and the camera controls are even worse, so I could never tell where I was going. Maybe the controls work better on the PC or PS4, but they sure don’t on the iPad. And I love quirky silly games like Mr. Mosquito, Chibi Robo, and Katamari Damacy, so I really tried to like this game, too. I even watched Let’s Play YouTube videos of this game (and I hate watching Let’s Play videos), just to see if I was missing anything. But no, I just think the game has really bad play control.

Kid Factor:

I am Bread isn’t rated on iOS devices, but on PS4 it was rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Violent References. That probably refers to the unnecessary asylum letters, but the rest of the game is kid-safe. However, I think the bad play control will deter any kids from playing it anyway.

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