Story mode where you play through levels in your basic quest to become toast, driving mad the poor occupant of the house you are destroying on your quest. Once it runs out, you will fall, and hope its in a safe surface, because it can cause you to lose the game. Moving to walls or other vertical surfaces will cause your aspiring toast to stick to it, giving you options for movement, but this is limited by a grip meter. Using the left stick will allow you to nudge your bread in one direction, for more precise, but painfully slow movement. Your main form of movement is by flipping over and over, alternating bottons to move. It works like this: Each of the shoulder buttons is tied to a corner of your loaf. Loaves of sliced bread are not famous for locomotion after all. Much like Octodad, a huge part of the challenge is to work around the intentionally imprecise controls. And the game is hard enough without the added challenges. Mold will be on the walls, surfaces will be dirtier, there will be no obvious path to the precious heat source you need to become toast. But as you clear levels things get more complicated. Avoid the floor, avoid the clearly dirty areas on the counter, don’t get in the sink. The challenge seems simple enough the first few levels. You must be edible toast, and so getting dirty or soggy will cause you to not be edible and lose the game. It is not as simple as just walking to the toaster. In order to become toast you must traverse through the room to a source of heat where you can fulfill your ambition to become a crispy treat. Why? How? It is not explained nor does it really need to be.

I Am Bread puts you in the role of a loaf of bread who has somehow become sentient and yearns to become toast. I Am Bread is one such game. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I think this makes it a game that’s much harder to enjoy without an audience. This has brought rise to a new category of game that seem to be made specifically to be watched. A fun “let’s play” experience can very easily make a game a hit. Nevertheless, the effect that let’s play have in the industry is undeniable.

But aside from that social setting, I’d rather do anything that is not watching someone play video games over the Internet. Growing up, taking turns to play a game was a pact made among friends to be able to enjoy each other’s company and play whatever the latest release was. I don’t get the appeal of “let’s play” videos.

I am bread game for kids