Tidy up the furnishings, choose the throw pillows again up. Hot Lava has left open beta, letting you relive a misspent youth with out getting mud throughout gran’s good couch. What’s subsequent, then? That’s the-floor-is-lava coated, and prop hunt’s been filling the disguise ‘n’ search area of interest for years. Hit me, games trade. When will you gamify the remainder of our childhood? Triple-A tunnel tig, anybody?
It’s doable you’ve been hopping round Hot Lava for some time now. Klei’s newest has been simmering in open beta for nicely over a yr, in any case.
In case you suffered an awfully joyless childhood, avoiding the bottom is the title of the game right here. You and a merry band of sadly sapient motion figures have to hop throughout a collection of playgrounds, grocery shops and residing rooms with out instantaneously combusting. It’s a neat riff on these Garry’s Mod deathrun maps, with a lighter tackle Mirror’s Edge parkour to maintain issues flowing.
Now, I’m no geologist. But I really feel like being that near molten lava must be sufficient to show each participant right into a plastic puddle, not to mention all that pleasantly flammable furnishings. There’s much more to fret about than sizzling toes, anyway. Grinders and crushers threaten to ship your toy-like type straight into the recycling bin.
Did I point out they made a chuffin’ GI Joe-ish cartoon for this? Who on the event staff has the Mount Vile Gauntlet Trial toy-set as of late? Let me know, Klei. My DMs are open.
Last Friday’s launch added a brand new Basement map and brings a couple of host of efficiency and management enhancements. It appears like a beautiful little speedrunning scene has developed over the past yr, with loads of player-made programs preserving it sprinting. Hot Lava comes packaged with a map editor, although it requires a little bit of Unity know-how.
Hot Lava is out now on Steam with a toasty 20% low cost at time of writing for £12.39/€13.43/$16.
