Stephen's Sausage Roll

• Title — Stephen's Sausage Roll • Developer — Increpare Games • Publisher — Increpare Games • Designer — Stephen Lavelle • Engine — Unity • Platforms — Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X • Released — 2016 04 18 • Genre — Puzzle • Modes — Single-player

• Illustration — Gameplay trailer for Stephen's Sausage Roll Puzzles in Stephen's Sausage Roll involve moving around sausage links in a Sokoban-like grid format, with the goal being to move each sausage over special grill tiles in order to cook them once on each spot—two spots on each "side" of the sausage—and then return the player character to the starting position. A puzzle can be failed either by burning a sausage, which happens when a single spot is cooked more than once; rolling a sausage off of the island and into the surrounding water; or making the player character themself fall into the water. The game includes an undo button to go back a single step, as well as a button to restart. The player character is composed of two parts: the character itself, and their fork, each of which occupy their own tile. The player can rotate in place and move forwards and backwards, but may not strafe while holding the fork, which makes navigation of tight spaces difficult. The game is split into multiple sections, each of which require all puzzles within to be completed before the player can move on to the next section. These sections introduce new puzzle mechanics as the game progresses, including the ability to skewer sausages onto the fork, roll on top of sausages, and the ability to separate the player character from their fork.

• Illustration — One of the coins that Stephen Lavelle sent to players of the game. The story of Stephen's Sausage Roll is communicated through stone tablets found throughout the game's overworld. They contain short, seemingly unrelated phrases which gradually grow into a fuller story.

• Year — Award — Category — Result — Ref • 2017 — The Edge Awards 2016 — PC Game of the Year