Cinder: Fire Survivors

Cinder is a roguelike survivors game, a bullet hell where the arena is alive. The dry meadow is a simulated world: your torch lights the grass, the fire spreads on its own, and anything standing in it burns — enemies and you alike. Water slows whoever wades through it and puts fire out. Oil catches. You steer with one finger; your weapons fire by themselves. HOW A RUN GOES Waves come on a clock. Kill them, take the gems they drop, level up and pick one of three upgrades. Two bosses in every arena — one at minute five, one at minute nine. Survive the last and the run is won. Die, and you keep the gold you earned. WHAT IS IN THE GAME • A dry meadow that burns, floods and dries again — the fire is a weapon, and it is nobody's friend. • Twelve weapons — torch, sling, whip, spark ring, oil flask, water gourd, chain lightning, rockfall, acid vial, lava spout, gust and frost shard — and four…