Pizza King

October only: the menu's gone spooky with pumpkins, a goblin, and a witch who flies past the moon. Gone again after Halloween.

Orders don't wait.

They ride out of the oven on a conveyor belt, and everything after that is on you. Pull an order off the belt, cut it, and get it into the right box before it reaches the end and hits the floor.

THREE SHIFTS Easy — pizzas only, one box. Learn the rhythm. Intermediate — pizzas, cheesy bread and wings, and three boxes to sort them into. Advanced — two ovens, two belts, everything at once.

CUT IT PROPERLY Pizzas take radial cuts through the centre. Cheesy bread takes parallel cuts across the slab. Wings come out finished and just need routing, fast. Swipes are matched on angle and position, so a lazy slash won't pass — you have to actually follow the line.

BUILD THE COMBO Box orders back to back for a multiplier up to 5x. Finish one without a single bad swipe for a PERFECT bonus. Three lives a shift: drop an order or box it wrong and you lose one. Everything speeds up the more you box, so the pressure comes from how well you're doing, not from a countdown.

YOUR PIZZERIA Name the place — it goes on the wall sign, the oven nameplate and every box lid. Pick King or Queen. Box orders to earn coins, then spend them in the shop on kitchen decor, oven skins and cutting board skins — mix and match any combination, including a few seasonal ones.

ALSO

• Game Center leaderboards for every shift, and best scores kept on your device.
• Pause any time. It counts you back in 3-2-1, so play never restarts under your finger, and leaving the app pauses the shift for you.
• Every pizza, oven and sound effect is generated in code. So is the soundtrack, which picks up tempo as you climb.
• The ring/silent switch mutes it, and your own music keeps playing.
• iPhone and iPad.