I am Bread in IOS

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82/100

I Am Bread is a glorious exercise in frustration and comedy. It takes the mundane concept of a slice of bread wanting to become toast and turns it into a high-stakes physics odyssey. The control scheme is intentionally difficult—you map each of the four corners of the bread to a different finger—which makes the act of simply climbing a wall feel like a monumental achievement.

Watching the bread flop around and lose 'edibility' as it touches the floor or dirty surfaces is consistently funny, but underneath the silliness is a genuinely challenging platformer. The level design is brilliant, utilizing household environments like kitchens and lounges as massive obstacle courses. It’s a game that rewards patience and a sense of humor, proving that even the most basic kitchen staple can have a heroic, albeit crumb-filled, journey.

Reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026
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Dinsun Review

I Am Bread is built on the 'intentionally difficult control' philosophy of games like QWOP. On a PC, it’s a funny, if maddening, physics puzzle. On a touchscreen, it’s a descent into madness. Controlling the four corners of a slice of bread with your fingers often leads to your own hands obscuring the very things you’re trying to climb. It’s clunky, it’s unresponsive, and it’s clearly not meant for this platform.

The humor is there, and the level design is clever, but the fun-to-frustration ratio is way off. I spent more time fighting the camera and the touch sensitivity than I did actually enjoying the 'story.' It’s a great YouTube game—it’s fun to watch someone else suffer through it—but playing it myself? No thanks. I’ll stick to actual bread. It’s less likely to make me throw my phone across the room.

Overall Stats

Pros & Cons

  • Hilarious premise and presentation
  • Creative level design
  • Good variety of game modes
  • Infuriating touch controls
  • Wonky camera system
  • Extremely steep difficulty curve

Technical Report

Performance: Occasional frame drops on older hardware; physics can glitch out in tight corners.

Accessibility:
  • Invert Y-axis
  • Sensitivity adjustments

Audience Fit

Buy if: You have infinite patience and find physical comedy in games rewarding.

Skip if: You want precise controls or have a low threshold for frustration.

Similar Games:
  • Surgeon Simulator
  • Octodad
  • Getting Over It

Reviewer Context

  • Reviewer: Dinsun, very hard on the score
  • Hardware: iPhone 14 Pro
  • Playtime: 3 hours
  • Status: Became Toast 3 times

The Game

Available on: iPhone, iPad, iPod

Version 1.5Fri Apr 08 2016

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

This update comes to you in the form of delicious, calorie-free carby bug fixes. Want to know more? Of course you do!

- When you’re playing the epilogue, the window wipers now behave like normal window wipers, not window wipers that have had too many energy drinks and stayed up all night.

- You can no longer see the pink particles at the end of the petrol station now. Bad news for anyone who likes confetti and cherry blossom, but sorry. That wasn’t intentional.

- The washing machine in the kitchen now looks a little less...wonky.

- If you crash at the end of a level, your progress should still be saved. That should save a few pennies in the swear jar!

- If your game was stuck muted, you should now be able to unmute the game. Because everyone likes a little music in their life, right?


**Selected by Apple - Handpicked Apps & Games 2015**

‘I am Bread’ is the latest quirky adventure from the creators of 'Surgeon Simulator', Bossa Studios. This isn't the best thing since sliced bread . . . it is sliced bread!

Mashable - 'After years of waiting, we can be Bread'

Touch Arcade - 'Feels like the pinnacle of all humanity's accomplishments'

Wired - 'I am Bread is the strangest game you will play this year'

9/10 - Steam

Metro - 'Slice of Heaven'

Destructoid - 'I Am Bread is just delightful'

MTV - 'Best Carbs'

You are bread! Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an adventure across 8 levels taking bread from its natural confine in the kitchen, throughout the house and then venture outside into the garden and beyond. Look out for the floor and any other unsavoury obstacles that could harm your tastiness as you seek out the means to achieve bread's ultimate goal.

Using the unique control system, designed from the ground up for iOS, you can bring the slice to life and take it on an incredible adventure. With you in control, this bread will be boldly going where no bread has gone before!

Please note:

The following devices may have issues running I am Bread:

- iPad 2, iPhone 4s, iPod 5th gen and iPad mini 1st gen.

If you encounter crashes perform a hard reset, which is achieved by holding down the home and power buttons until the apple logo appears.


Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

**Selected by Apple - Handpicked Apps & Games 2015**

‘I am Bread’ is the latest quirky adventure from the creators of 'Surgeon Simulator', Bossa Studios. This isn't the best thing since sliced bread . . . it is sliced bread!

Mashable - 'After years of waiting, we can be Bread'

Touch Arcade - 'Feels like the pinnacle of all humanity's accomplishments'

Wired - 'I am Bread is the strangest game you will play this year'

9/10 - Steam

Metro - 'Slice of Heaven'

Destructoid - 'I Am Bread is just delightful'

MTV - 'Best Carbs'

You are bread! Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an adventure across 8 levels taking bread from its natural confine in the kitchen, throughout the house and then venture outside into the garden and beyond. Look out for the floor and any other unsavoury obstacles that could harm your tastiness as you seek out the means to achieve bread's ultimate goal.

Using the unique control system, designed from the ground up for iOS, you can bring the slice to life and take it on an incredible adventure. With you in control, this bread will be boldly going where no bread has gone before!

Please note:

The following devices may have issues running I am Bread:

- iPad 2, iPhone 4s, iPod 5th gen and iPad mini 1st gen.

If you encounter crashes perform a hard reset, which is achieved by holding down the home and power buttons until the apple logo appears.


Ratings & Reviews

4.1 out of 5 with 1342 Counts
Age Rating 4+

Screenshots

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From the creators of Surgeon Simulator comes I Am Bread, the most unique platformer you'll ever play. Take control of a sentient slice of bread on a quest for toasty perfection. Embark on a journey across 8 levels set in a typical house, utilizing a control system designed to test your dexterity. Avoid the floor, traverse hair-raising heights, and use anything from hair dryers to irons to get toasted.

Features

1

Unique four-corner control system

2

Multiple game modes including Bagel Race and Cheese Hunt

3

Intricate physics-based environments

4

Dynamic edibility and 'tasty' score system

Tips

Promotion Videos

I am Bread - Official Trailer - YouTube

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Q&A

Yes, I Am Bread supports MFi controllers, which can make the complex movement much more manageable than touch inputs.

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