Kill It With Fire (2020)

Group Podcast Discussion:

To put it simply, I had fun with Kill It With Fire. It’s not going to win any awards for gameplay innovation or being the most revolutionary thing since the discovery of breathing, but that’s okay. It’s a simple game, about killing spiders with whatever you can get your hands on, and that’s okay. I would have liked to see the developers lean a bit more into the environmental destruction, since it just feels like they’re scratching the surface of it and clean up the hit detection of killing the spiders a little bit more - specifically with the guns.. And you got yourself a mindless spiderkilling good time.

My main issues are the controls are stiff on a controller and there are nowhere near enough options to fix them on Series X.

I think the game is short but amusing and interesting but trying to 100% with these console controls is a big NAH!

Besides that is a pretty fun and lightly amusing physics shooter / real-time puzzle game. It is for sure worth trying if you have GamePass anyway and was a fun enough little time killer.

Kill It With Fire is a fairly short Hidden Object game with light puzzles that is cleverly disguised as an FPS. The game is a bit silly at first (spiders cannot hurt you and dart back and forth almost impossible to hit as you shoot at them with a rather wide assortment of weapons such as frying pans and 357 magnum destroying everything around you) but after playing it more I began to thoroughly enjoy the game more due to the hidden object dynamic and the unlocks that come with replaying and exploring levels. This is a casual game meant for people who like exploring and looking for secrets. I pretty much 100% it. (It can be completed in about 3 hours probably but i played it for about 7 to unlock everything)

There is no such thing as 'overkill' in KiwF

There is more to this game than appears. Between the upgrades, unlocks and variety of spiders the amount of thought put into this game does deserve some praise. The level design is decent. The ending is something else. There's also a secret ending of sorts. Light puzzles and hidden object searching for the completionist for unlockable rewards.

Kill spiders in such light-hearted fun-filled creative ways! (spoiler alert)

I have known some people who hate spiders But this game basically asks the question 'just how much do YOU hate spiders? (Enough to burn the house down maybe to ensure you get rid of them?) This game's premise REALLY made me wonder about that. It's fun (well not really, its a bit alarming) to think of arachnophobia leading towards a kind of fanaticism and that someone might be driven to the point of insanity to comb over their whole house to make sure they aren't hiding somewhere and go on to do the things that this game depicts in it's humorous and not-too-serious-tone. But after playing it, i can't help but wonder!

Were it a bit longer and kept going with the story it established (rather than end on a teaser for a sequel) i would hand down give this imaginative twisted little weaver of a game 5 stars.