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Wildfire review

Wildfire review

A 2D stealth game in which you can wield elemental powers of fire, water and earth, Wildfire is ultimately less than the sum of its many parts.

  • Developer: Sneaky Bastards
  • Publisher: Humble Games
  • Release: Out now
  • On: Windows
  • From: Steam, GOG, Humble
  • Price: £11.39/€15/$15

Stealth games tend to come in two flavours. Nowadays most are systemic playgrounds, in which players are presented with a range of options for how to deal with any given situation, and errors are forgiven after the few seconds it takes a guard to decide it was probably rats. A handful of others are more rigid, with only one correct way to play, and each stumble from the shadows punished by death and loading screens.

I like both of these kinds of stealth games, though I prefer the former. My frustrations with Wildfire can largely be traced to not knowing which kind of stealth game it’s going to be in any given moment.

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