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Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE

Casey Donnellan Games LLC · tinyBuild · 2020-07-17

Steam

ActionCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jul 17, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Kill It With Fire: Heatwave is a free chapter of a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage. The full game is OUT NOW!

Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE is a free-to-play Action, Casual, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2020, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 2154 reviews).

2
playing now
92%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 45 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (274 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
26326320202026Week of 2020-07-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DFPSCuteFunnyActionComedyHorrorParody PhysicsSandbox

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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