Release TBA Publisher Klei Entertainment | Developer Klei Entertainment Genre Action-adventure game | |
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Platforms Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh operating systems Similar Klei Entertainment games, Other games | ||
Hot Lava is an upcoming adventure video game developed and published by Klei Entertainment. It began its development by Mark Laprairie, before he was hired by Klei Entertainment, as a "passion project". It is based primarily on the children's game with the same name.
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Gameplay
Hot Lava is a adventure video game in the first-person perspective. In the game, the player control the character as they jump, leap, wall run and swing from object to object. Some of the objects include tables, couches, and chairs. The kitchen is a "safe zone".
Development and release
Hot Lava is first 3D game by Klei Entertainment, the developers behind Don't Starve and Invisible, Inc., and is based on the children game with the same name. The game started as a "passion project" by Mark Laprairie, influenced by the climbing mod ("kz climb") in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, before he was hired by Klei Entertainment. Laprairie previously worked on Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 3, along with Klei Entertainment's game Don't Starve. Hot Lava was submitted to Steam's Greenlight system, whereby the community votes on whether they like the game. The game passed in under forty hours.
The official gameplay trailer of Hot Lava was released on August 29, 2016. Pre-release beta testing has been made available.
Pre-release
Many video game journalists compared Hot Lava to Mirror's Edge, another parkour-based video game.