Kill It With Fire is a free mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as well, as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This mobile app is a simple first person action game where you kill low poly spiders in low poly environments. I guess the game "works" but there's a few reasons why gamers will want to avoid this mobile app.

From a technical perspective, as a mobile app, this doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

The mobile app features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the mid 2000s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the mobile app (although the requirement for this to run on low end mobile phones is a factor), and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.

Because this is a mobile app, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the iPhones that the mobile app was designed for. These are unfortunate handicaps and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was an afterthought for the iPhone developers who are to blame for this. The mobile app is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for mobile phones forces upon a game. Once more, mobile devs have made gaming worse for everyone. I didn't spend thousands on building a gaming rig just so I could pretend it's an iPhone.

Special note: The developer of this mobile app released a demo for the game (as if it was a fully fledged game instead of using Steam's demo capability, an unethical act in itself), and that demo behaved as spyware and collected "telemetry" and personally identifying information. There was no way to opt out of the developer harvesting data about you, it was spyware. It's unclear if this full version of the mobile app is infested with the same spyware. Should you trust the developer? Of course not... if they had any concerns about user safety and privacy, they wouldn't have built spyware into their mobile app and turned it on by default!.

Another note: The developer, tinyBuild, has colluded with Tencent backed interests to withhold some of their games from Steam in a brazen act of anti-competitive behaviour. Worse, in the past they first advertised their games on Steam to drum up consumer interest before pulling the rug out from gamers, cancelling the Steam launch and abusing Steam for free beta testing, then screwing gamers over. This is harmful to gamers and to the gaming industry, and is completely unethical behaviour intended to cause this harm for short term profit. While games absolutely should be considered on their own merits, as I have in my review above, gamers must be cautious when buying games from unethical developers like this. There's no telling when they will accept more bribes and pull their games off Steam again... they've done it once, they can't be trusted. Gamers have a right to know about this. If you buy this mobile app you may be putting your money at risk.

Think of this as someone coming into your home, installing a camera in your living room, and refusing to tell you who will be watching it, if they will record the footage and where they will post it. You have no control over your data once they take it from you. Do you trust them?

So, should you buy this mobile app? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?

Once more we see greedy mobile devs trying to scam PC gamers. On Steam, this is $13 USD, on app stores, it's free. Mobile devs must learn PC gamers are not here to be gouged, and can't be expected to pay a premium for a free mobile app just because it's been lazily dumped on Steam. This is unacceptable disrespect for PC gamers. Because this can be played free elsewhere, and because of the other defects, it's impossible to recommend.

THIRTEEN BUCKS FOR A FREE MOBILE APP. That, as far as we know, may be infested with spyware like the demo was.

Just who do they think we are?

Kill it with fire is a short but very fun and chaotic game about killing spiders.

Pros:

If you hate spiders you can take revenge on them.

Simple graphics and a nice soundtrack that makes the game fun and engaging.

A very low demand game even budget computer could play.

For the most part, easy achievements and relatively easy to get them all.

Easy to understand controls and tons of ways to exterminate spiders, my favorite being the flamethrower.

Free DLC content that added 3 new variants of maps, Christmas versions of almost all maps and a few tools and upgrades.

Cons:

Price, for a game you can complete and 100% in just 6 hours 14.99 is a tad high, recommend you wait for sales or possibly buy a key for it, I got it for 0.99$ so it was more than worth it for me.

Length of game, while it would get repetitive I personally would've liked one or two more maps to have a longer play time but there's another one coming out so I digress.

Not for those with arachnophobia, even though they are very much cartoon spiders they can give you a scare, jumping in your screen or popping outta nowhere.

All in all solid 8.7/10

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