Nuclear Blaze
The world is burning.
Well, not exactly, but the whole region is.
As a trained firefighter, you’re being air-dropped right in the middle of this hell blaze to investigate and look for survivors. But the unexpected presence of an unknown military facility might somewhat affect your plans.
- A unique 2D firefighting game with all the devastating backdrafts, exploding walls and sprinklers you could expect.
- Smooth "signature" controls and gameplay from the guy who was in charge on Dead Cells.
- An action/adventure game crafted with love and attention to details.
- Use your fire hose carefully to keep the blaze under control and progress through the facility.
- Dedicated "Kid mode" designed for very young kids (~3 years old and more), with specific level design, rules and gameplay… while still featuring firefighters, helicopters and trucks!
- Not a roguelite/like/vania this time!
- Unravel the true story of Site 16 and A-█████. Access to these informations may require authorization clearance ████ and ██.
Following the path of Celeste, Nuclear Blaze also offers some fine-tuning of difficulty by allowing players to adjust some rules to their needs. There’s no Easy or Hard mode, but you can consider the default settings as being quite difficult.
Making your gamer life easier is fine, it’s about having fun, so feel free to adjust your in-game settings.
Nuclear Blaze first started as a game jam entry for Ludum Dare. It was created in 48h and received lots of positive feedback and support from everyone 🙂
My first intention was to create a game my 3yrs old boy could play, as he is a big fan of firefighters. Obviously, the game became more and more complex and quickly turned out to be too difficult for him: I then decided to add a specific "Kid mode".
The Kid Mode is a special mode in the game, designed with young players in mind, featuring specific rules:
- Specific levels meant to be easy to explore,
- You can’t die,
- Water is infinite,
- Water is auto-aimed,
- Controls are simplified.
- Helicopters and trucks everywhere, because kids love them.
Game Discussion
Steam User 5
A fun, easy little game (on the first playthrough, anyway). Despite what the store page claims, this works fine on the deck with Proton Experimental.
Steam User 4
Really fun but very short. It took me 1 hour and 15 minutes to beat the game on the normal mode. There's an additional hard mode with some extra content and more challenging rooms but since one of the big mechanics is faster spreading fire (which I don't think is that fun any way) I wasn't interested in it. Definitely recommend on a sale.
Steam User 3
Great game.
Unfortunately, it is very short. You can finish it in 3 hours.
You can go for New Game+ (Hold My Beer mode) which will be basically the same, but harder (for example, you will also need to avoid turrets).
The only flaw of this game is that without mouse aiming, it is more difficult than necessary (on Hold My Beer mode especially). Luckily, developer added lots of options to adjust difficulty settings.
Steam User 2
Nuclear Blaze looks cool, and thankfully it's pretty cool to play too.
There's a bit too much "juicing" going on, with excessive slow-mo screen shaking, but if you can get over that you'll find a lovely action game of putting out fires. It has two main difficulty modes: The first time through, then a second harder mode with a slightly different route. There's also a full suite of accessibility filters that allow you to completely undermine the difficulty if you wish.
Amazingly the game features a "kid mode", where the game basically plays itself, and it's aimed at pre-schoolers. I wish mode games had this! I'm struggling to think if I've ever seen a normal game have a dedicated super-easy mode for kids, as opposed to the entire game being aimed at kids.
There's also has some nonsense story about cats and janitors that is probably a meme about some other game, but I refuse to look it up.
Steam User 3
8/10 - A wonderful 2D platformer in which you go into a secret military facility as a fireman to save cats from the fire. Simply great!
Steam User 2
A short, fun, simple, yet €9.99 price tag isn't deserved for the amount of content you get. One full run realistically takes around one hour.
Base mechanics feel well thought out, and the overall pacing of the game is great, same as the soundtrack and pixel art.
Steam User 1
It's a really good game with pixel graphics and an enjoyable story. I love the fact that it has a kids mode and replayability. PS: It works perfect on steam deck out of the box playing with open GL and proton experimental.