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2023 · Port · Casey Donnellan Games LLC · Shooter · Simulation

Kill It With Fire VR

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The spider: Usually hairy, often poisonous and ALWAYS up to something. Take your arachnophobia to new heights in Kill it With Fire VR, and deal with spiders by any means necessary!

Released: 13 April 2023
Platforms: Meta Quest PlayStation VR SteamVR
Genres: Shooter Simulation Adventure Indie
Developers: Casey Donnellan Games LLC
Publishers: tinyBuild
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Virtual Reality
Themes: Action
Engine: Unreal
Age ratings: PEGI 7 ESRB T
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat: 3hmain story4hcompletionist

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.

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The good news: The VR version of Kill It With fire means the ultimate freedom to hunt and destroy mankind’s most ancient and deadly nemesis. You'll have more control than ever over how you take down the eight-legged menace.

The bad news: It's SPIDERS. In VR. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Look, we don't need to complicate things, here. There's somewhat of a "spider problem" in town, and as a licensed Kill It With Fire exterminator, YOU are the solution.

But you're not going in alone. You've got a huge arsenal of weapons and technology to help you do a little bit of population control. And if there’s a little collateral damage caused along the way? Well, it’s best to be SURE they're dead.

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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.