Burn EVERYTHING

So, I played and finished Little Inferno recently. Boy, was it a FUN piece of art. This gem's intended to be a mini-game, and it does a really good job at that.

You start up the game, and after you select a profile for a playthrough, it throws you straight into the game. Then the screen shows you this fireplace, and some other HUD icons. That's it. The majority of Little Inferno is played there.

Here's the gameplay: you BUY stuff from a catalog, BURN them, get MONEY for that, and repeat. Told you it's simple. There are "combos" which you can attempt to complete, where you are to burn two or more specific items together.

Each item has a specific burning, uh, 'aftermath'. If you ignite a valkyrie doll, it starts singing opera and the whole screen is filled with rose petals falling from the sky/chimney. How cool is that? You could also toss the items around, which smashes them, or let the items interact with each other, i.e. dry ice cubes will freeze other items. Nice little details.

So yes, I spent 3-4 hours (could've been shorter had I not derped around the web while playing the game...) buying items, dragging them to the fireplace and burning them. "BUT ZE PLOT? WHERE IS ZE STORY?" Ohhh man, the game's pretty deep when it comes to that.

You are stuck facing a fireplace in the game, for the most part. At the end of the game, the fireplace explodes, and you are presented with a humanoid for you to control. You will have conversations with people and they will touch on things like capitalism, existentialism, ambitions and all those stuff. It's absolutely immense and heavy, for a game which I thought to be 'simple'.

Overall, it is a simple and fun game to play when you are loafing around and have some time to kill. They have good burning animations, burning sound effects and, well, it's just a really well-produced game, I'd say.

 I bought the game during Steam Summer Sales for cheaps, which was about £2 I believe. I would pay £5 for it, but hey. You could also get it on iOS, allowing you to scare your friends or fellow neighbours with your pyromaniacal personality.

For a mini-game? I'll give it a 9/10. The game's fun, the whole thing's well-produced and not as shallow as it appears to be. Go, go get it.