The player controls a character who pushes sausage links onto hot grill tiles to cook them.

It was received well by critics and was praised by other prolific indie puzzle video game creators.

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.

[3][4] The story of Stephen's Sausage Roll is communicated through stone tablets found throughout the game's overworld.

[5] Stephen's Sausage Roll holds an aggregated Metacritic score of 90/100, based on 9 critic reviews.