Kill It With Fire

Kill It With Fire is exactly the game its title promises. As a licensed Kill It With Fire exterminator, your job is to track down the spiders hiding in suburban houses and apartments and dispatch them with whatever's available — fire, bullets, throwing stars, frying pans, explosives, large household objects dropped from height, or in a pinch, anything heavy enough to fall on them.

Finding the spiders is half the work. State-of-the-art arachnid tracking technology pinpoints rough locations among hundreds of potential hiding spots — under furniture, inside cabinets, behind picture frames, in vents — but the actual location is yours to discover, usually by destroying enough of the room to flush the target out. Once the spider's running, the recommended technique is to torch the path and smash the spider with a frying pan after the fire dies down. It's the only way to be sure.

The arsenal grows quickly. Dozens of unique weapons and equipment pieces unlock through play, including increasingly inappropriate options the manufacturer's warranty almost certainly doesn't cover. A realistic fire-simulation system means the collateral damage you cause is itself part of the puzzle — set the kitchen ablaze and you may need to escape it before continuing the hunt.

Eight different spider species rotate through the levels, each with their own behavior. Optional objectives layer additional challenges onto every house. Hidden upgrades reward exploration. The Arachno-Gauntlet challenge mode strings together combat scenarios for players who want straight extermination practice, and a secret ending exists somewhere for the persistent.