Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE similar games & best alternatives

Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

Should you play it?

Kill It With Fire: Heatwave is a free chapter of a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage. The full game is OUT NOW!

What works

  • Fun and humorous gameplay
  • Creative use of weapons and environment
  • Effective stress relief and therapy for arachnophobia
  • Free demo with good content
  • Engaging destruction mechanics

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited levels and content in demo
  • Spiders move very fast, causing frustration
  • Some bugs and clunky physics
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Performance issues on low-end pcs

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Kill It With Fire

  • Kill It With Fire: Ignition

  • Suicide Guy

  • Sword With Sauce

  • Perfect Vermin

  • Hammer 2

Less violent

Games that feels like Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE but with less combat and destruction

  • Catlateral Damage

  • A Webbing Journey

  • The Marvellous Miss Take

  • Size Matters

  • Agent A: A puzzle in disguise

  • Big Hops

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Boogeyman

  • Star Shelter

  • 5 nights at Timokha 4: School

  • Undead Development

  • Deadline Escape

  • I'm on Observation Duty 2

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Creativity. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival.

Last update: 03/08/2026