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 more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes this is a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Fire Guild didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievments, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for completing the game (it's short, so this is not difficult), but only around 34 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game, less than half the players. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game. Fire Guild is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.

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.

Идея игры интересная, но реализацию можно было бы сделать получше. Я не буду осуждать сюжет и замысел автора, а скорее расскажу о технической части. Мне не нравится, что нельзя сменить управление. У меня сокращенная клава, и стрелки мне эти не уперлись от слова совсем, но поменять управление нельзя. Также совершенно не ясно, сколько нужно пены, что бы потушить деревце. Иногда ты должен вылить тучу пены, а иногда и пшика хватит. В конце нельзя сжечь все деревья, всегда будет одно не подожжённое. Если уж злодействовать, так дайте всё сжечь! Однако мне были интересны все эти 0,4 часа, так что рекомендую.