Fire Guild

Fire Guild is a Russian mobile app-like game that has been dumped on Steam as a bit of a cash grab. It's a very basic bare bones hot air balloon skin slapped on a "Moon Lander" style 2D retro arcade game. Guide the balloon using moon-lander style physics controls over fires, then dump water on the fires. That's all their is to it, I've seen more sophisticated browser games and Flash games from the 1990s. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the fixed resolution sprites/raster images/simplistic vector art used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the mediocre 2D visuals. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have mor…

I like the idea of a game fighting forest fires. However this is more of a short story than a fire fighting simulator and the story here is astonishingly terrible.