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2020 · Casey Donnellan Games LLC · Shooter · Simulation

Kill It With Fire

Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.

Released
13 August 2020
Platforms
AndroidNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4WindowsXbox OneiOS
Genres
ShooterSimulationIndie
Developers
Casey Donnellan Games LLC
Publishers
tinyBuild
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
First person
Themes
ActionComedy
Engine
Unreal Engine 4

About

Kill It with Fire (stylised as KILL IT WITH FIRE) is a 2020 simulation video game developed by Casey Donnellan Games and published by TinyBuild. The player controls an exterminator, who must eliminate a spider infestation in a town using a wide arsenal of weaponry. The game received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the game's premise and art direction, but critiqued the controls and length.

›Story

The spider - mankind’s most ancient and deadly nemesis. As a licensed Kill It With Fire exterminator, it’s time to fight back! Assemble your arsenal of increasingly excessive weapons, track spiders across suburbia, and burn everything in your path!

To defeat spiders you must exploit their one weakness: FIRE. Or bullets. pretty much anything, really. But that doesn’t mean it’ll be easy - first, you’ve gotta find the spiders.

Use state-of-the-art arachnid tracking technology to pinpoint your target's location among hundreds of potential hiding spots - then, torch everything and smash the spider with a frying pan after it runs out. It’s the only way to be sure.

Keywords

  • hunting
  • spider

Media

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Gameplay

The game is similar to a first-person shooter. The player controls an exterminator, who needs to eliminate every spider hidden throughout 9 levels. Each level has a set number of spiders hidden underneath objects with certain areas of the level and the level's exit blocked by doors requiring a certain number of spiders be killed. The player starts with a clipboard as a weapon, but can find additional weapons hidden throughout the game, including shotguns, molotov cocktails, a frying pan and throwing stars.

Each level additionally has optional objectives, some of which are unrelated to killing spiders; the objectives reward the player with upgrades between levels. Completing every objective in a level unlocks "Spider gauntlets", additional challenges which alter the game's final level. Throughout the game different types of spiders are present, such as explosive spiders, spiders that spawn smaller ones upon death and spiders that shoot webbing at the player's screen.

Reception

The game received "mixed or average reviews" according to review aggregator Metacritic. OpenCritic determined that 51% of critics recommended the game.

Jupiter Hadley of Pocket Gamer gave the game 4 of 5 stars, praising the game's premise and optional objectives, while critiquing the controls. Multiplayer.it gave the game 7/10, citing the game's art style, concept and setting, but disliked the game's performance and controls. Push Square also gave the game a 7 out of 10, highlighting the game's sound design, though criticizing the game's short length.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows13 August 2020Worldwide
iOS17 February 2021Worldwide
PlayStation 44 March 2021North America · Europe 4 March 2021
Xbox One4 March 2021Worldwide
Nintendo Switch4 March 2021Worldwide
Android5 March 2021Worldwide

Editions and related releases

Ported as
Kill It With Fire VR

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