Wildfire Swap

Ryan Kubik Developer

Ryan Kubik Games Publisher

2021-03-31 Release

Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 1

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Positive (30 reviews)

https://wildfire.fun

Steam Store

Wildfire Swap is a puzzle game where you're presented with a grid of houses, trees, and fires. Each turn you're allowed to swap two adjacent tiles with each other to try and move the houses to a safe position.

However, every time you make a swap, all of the fires on the map spread to nearby flammable tiles. Your goal is to create a fire break of cleared land between all the houses in a level and the surrounding flames.

• Swap tiles to change the course of burning fires
  
• Solve a series of increasingly interesting puzzles
  
• Challenge yourself with optional, more complex puzzles
  
• Discover surprisingly deep interactions between many different tile types
  
• Enjoy a simple pixel art aesthetic

Our Inspiration

Wildfire Swap is a game about exploring the efforts to control those massive fires. It explores how a small spark can quickly turn into a raging inferno and how easily forces of nature can spiral out of our control.

You take on the role of a wildland fire fighter. Your goal is to create firebreaks between out of control fires and people’s homes by solving tile swapping puzzles. Like wild fires in the real world, you’re at the mercy of the flames. You cannot extinguish them: you must do your best to contain them.

Every time you make a move to contain the fire, it spreads more out of control. Through well-planned and calculated movements you can prevent the flames from burning down homes. Each level challenges you to understand more deeply how fires spread so that you can adapt your fire prevention strategies.



I hope that people have fun playing Wildfire Swap. And I hope that as they overcome the puzzles in this game, they get some sense of the enormous amount of planning and hard work fire fighting teams put in to contain these fires.