Little Inferno is a Firecracker of a Game

I had my reservations but I was curious. Good thing this is one of the games featured in Humble Bundle 8 (going on for another 5 days). The premise of the games is simple. You are in front of a fireplace, you buy various toys from a catalog and light them on fire. When you light things on fire you get more money, rinse and repeat. Really, that is all you do. Can't get any more simple than that. With an objective as concise as that you have to wonder how the developers keep the appeal for this game up. That comes from the wide variety of objects you light up. Everything from food, to a pooping cat, even electronics and bugs. There's no shortage of things you can light on fire. To add an extra layer to the gameplay you can burn things together to create combos that you unlock.

To say the least lighting some of these things on fire gives you hilarious animation sequences. There's no shortage of things to burn and in order to unlock the next shopping catalog you will have to buy everything in the previous one and have unlocked a number of combinations. While you're burning your worldly possessions you will sometimes receive mail from a strange woman named Sugar Plumps, the weather man and even from the CEO of Tomorrow Corporation, Miss Nancy herself.






Also the developers, even though made an excellent game about fire they do their due diligence in constantly reminding you that playing with fire is dangerous. However, that is not the only serious note this game gives. If you happen to continue on to the end, and yes, this game does in fact have an ending. You're treated to a very brilliantly crafted ending that isn't in line with all the silliness that the Little Inferno fireplace brings, bring about deep thought and makes the game that much more compelling.


Little Inferno is a short (only about 3 hours), casual gem. It will make you laugh, think and maybe cry, but mostly laugh. I highly recommend you try it.

Available for PC, Mac, Linux and iOS
Buy it:  Steam, Amazon (DRM Free, Steam Version), iOS, WiiU