Fire Tonight (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Fire Tonight

A narrative puzzle game about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire. Maya sets out to find her way across the city by car, train, roller skate and rooftop all while avoiding…

60 12 August 2021

What Fire Tonight is

Fire Tonight is an adventure game developed by Reptoid Games and released in 2021. It was published by Way Down Deep. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Maya and Devin are separated in a city on fire. In the year 1990, before cell phones or Internet. They’re on their own, wondering about the choices that brought them here, how they met, and what the future might hold. Inspired by Information Society's song of the same name, Fire Tonight is a lighthearted but thoughtful walk through the story of a relationship. A story about believing in each other when the whole world tries to keep them apart.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Fire Tonight holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 14 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Fire Tonight launched on 12 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and The Forgotten City. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, The Forgotten City.

Official trailer