Burn, my children! Burn!

I am utterly shockedHot Lavahasn’t happened already.

You know when you were a kid, and you’d jump all over the furniture, shouting “the floor is lava!” and pissing off your parents? It’s that but as a video game. It’s an idea so painfully obvious, it only just being adapted now is a major “well duh, of course that should be a thing” moment.

Hot Lava, developed and published by Klei (ofDon’t StarveandMark of the Ninjafame), is a platforming game set in common kids’ environments such as schools, bedrooms, and living rooms. Except the floor is a boiling, steaming pool of lava that you have to try and not fall in to, lest your flesh burn and your eyeballs evapourate out of your sockets, the heat slowly liquefying your brain until all that you ever were is no more. Neat!

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There’s currently no release date announced, and all we really know about the game are these cool screenshots you can see in the gallery below. We also know it’s set to include multiplayer, so you and a chum and clamber and swing around together.

This isToy Story 2for the PS1 meetsDark Souls’Lost Izalith, and I am so, so up for that.

John and Molly sitting on the park bench

Close up shot of Marissa Marcel starring in Ambrosio

Kukrushka sitting in a meadow

Lightkeeper pointing his firearm overlapped against the lighthouse background

Overseer looking over the balcony in opening cutscene of Funeralopolis

Edited image of Super Imposter looking through window in No I’m not a Human demo cutscene with thin man and FEMA inside the house

Indie game collage of Blue Prince, KARMA, and The Midnight Walk

Close up shot of Jackie in the Box

Silhouette of a man getting shot as Mick Carter stands behind cover