#Little inferno combinations series

These combos vary from the extremely obvious (the вЂњbike pirateвЂќ combo requires you to simultaneously burn a toy pirate and a wooden bicycle) to dumb puns (the вЂњchain emailвЂќ combo involves Email and a chainsaw) to various combos that require you to observe effects that happen when you burn things (like the вЂњcolorful flameвЂќ combo that requires you to combine items that change the flame.) Burn things.

#Little inferno combinations series

You are presented with the fireplace, a series of catalogs from which you can order various items and, crucially, a set of combos that you have to figure out from their names alone. Nonetheless youвЂ™re not playing with some dumb video game or action figure playset, youвЂ™ve got a fireplace, and your only mode of playing is to burn things. The art style and tone of the game seems to be set in a version of Victorian London, but the world doesnвЂ™t map exactly on to ours and there are more modern items like televisions and automobiles present in the world. You play an unnamed child in a dystopian city locked in permanent winter, where going outside is discouraged and instead kids stay inside and play with toys. What kind of game is it? A fireplace simulator puzzle game, of course. ItвЂ™s not a difficult game, and the gameplay isnвЂ™t its strongest draw, but itвЂ™s a game and should be judged as such. When it was released there was some discussion as to whether it was a game or some kind of narrative interactive toy, like a visual novel where you burn stuff instead of chat with high schoolers, but there are enough established rules and gameplay challenges to mark this as clearly in the game category. Little Inferno is a decent, if shallow, puzzle game with more resonance than ever after the last year and a half.