In Pepper Grinder you play as a young girl, Pepper, who washes up on the shores of a fantasy land and is promptly robbed by pirate monsters. She is left with nothing but the clothes on her back, and a giant hand drill that the pirates have conveniently left behind.

As you travel across the 2D island to retrieve your treasure, you’ll use your drill, Grinder, both as a weapon and a means of traversing the pixelated world of sandy beaches, lava tubes, and icy peaks. The game is divided into multiple levels, or biomes, each containing five stages and a final boss that you must defeat before you can proceed. With just a few key gameplay buttons, you’ll launch yourself in and out of your environment, battling countless enemies and rampaging your way to sweet, sweet revenge. Sounds simple enough, right?

But as any seasoned Celeste veteran or Hollow Knight fan knows, the best games in the platforming genre are never that easy. In fact, any title hoping to claim a place alongside the classics has to have some sort of difficulty spike or unique twist on the genre’s core gameplay; after all, platformers wouldn’t be fun if all you had to do was jump from ledge to ledge.

Luckily for any platformer fan looking for that next big hit, Pepper Grinder offers players so much more than simple gameplay, despite being built around an incredibly simple mechanic. From smooth and intuitive gameplay and a satisfying collection system, to gorgeous visuals and an absolute banger of a soundtrack, Ahr Ech’s new 2D side-scroller is sure to excite fans of the platformer genre.