Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE

Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE

Worth it · Shooter · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
1.1h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
92% positive
Length
1.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
92%
2,154 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 760 or Equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

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!
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
Length1.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Kill It With Fire ($12.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Kill It With Fire: Ignition (free, scores 73).

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1366290/kill-it-with-fire-heatwave
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCasey Donnellan Games LLC
PublishertinyBuild
GenreShooter
Released2020