Kill It With Fire 2 Early Access [Review]
Kill It With Fire 2 offers an abundance of spider murder, even in Early Access.
Kill It With Fire 2 has the same basic premise as the first game—you’re an exterminator hired to stop a spider infestation by any means necessary—except this time, on a grander scale. Now you must destroy spiders across the multiverse. Also, you can now invite your friends to share in the mayhem. The game may be in Early Access, but it feels fairly polished already. My cup runneth over with spider slaughter.
The game opens with you waking up, with 94 days passed since the last spider, at least according to your whiteboard. Of course, spiders appear, and in a fun early twist I won’t spoil, you’re hired to help exterminate spiders across time and space. As you progress, you’ll collect crystals that will unlock new parts of your base and coordinates to feed into your portal to other universes.
Like its predecessor, Kill It With Fire 2 is played in first person. You have a growing arsenal of upgradable tools and weapons at your disposal to kill spiders with prejudice. Environmental destruction is half the fun here; you don’t have to be careful in any way when murdering spiders. The chaos is the point and it’s glorious.
It gets even more fun as you get dropped into surprising worlds. For me, the most memorable in Early Access so far is Arachnid City, where you’re Godzilla sized, destroying buildings as you hunt for spiders. Spiders will even drive little tanks to try to hurt you. I can’t wait to see the levels that will be added before 1.0, which include a Wild West level and “Spider Hell.”
The game’s graphics are blocky and cartoonish, bringing lightness and fun to something potentially very scary to a lot of people—spiders. For those who just can’t take it, there’s an arachnophobia accessibility setting as well. Even so, I can imagine this game would be terrifying if the devs were to add a VR mode.
I haven’t yet had the opportunity to try the game’s co-op or competitive multiplayer modes, but they look like a blast. The co-op campaign can support up to four players. The PVP mode, Spider Hunt, has up to eight players playing as both exterminators and spiders.
Even with just a handful of levels in its current Early Access form, tinyBuild and Casey Donnellan’s Kill It With Fire 2 is a fantastic game, well worth the asking price of $14.99. It performed flawlessly on my Steam Deck.
Kill It With Fire 2 is available in Steam Early Access.
Overall Score: 8/10
Played on: Steam Deck
