Hot Lava

Hot Lava

Steam Deck Playable

Klei Entertainment · Precision Platformer · Sep 19, 2019

Yes, worth buying.

At $19.99. It has been as low as $4.99.

93%
Very Positive
6k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 27 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story and characters: 24 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Multiplayer: 24 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Bugs: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 6k player reviews · updated 5 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
63% of themes are praise25% are divided12% are caveats
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
Game starts out by having quite interesting gameplay and a fun idea, but then it gets to some levels where there is a ton of janky stuff to slide on or barely miss, and even having no checkpoints so you gotta start all over from the beginning, I am not against it having some harder levels, but in at least one case it kinda went from difficulty 2 to difficulty 9 right off the bat, without ability to have checkpoints in that specific level, stuff like this gets a negative from me, it just breaks the good pace the game had going and then just tosses a brick wall at you.
27 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Thanks to your support, I don't lose the point of playing and writing reviews!
24 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
If you're looking for a fun way to pass the time (especially in multiplayer), this game is a solid pick.
24 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
There is workshop support, and there's even some of those maps included in the base game, which are good for the most part -with one in particular being quite challenging-, but the rest of the maps on the workshop seem a bit less popular than those; plus the graphics of those maps are polygonal, they don't compare to those of the rest of the game made by Klei Entertainment.
18 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
The soundtrack, filled with upbeat and energetic tunes, matches the tone well and keeps the momentum high.
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Gameplay27 reviews
Story and characters24 reviews
Multiplayer24 reviews
Graphics18 reviews
Audio6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Difficulty9 reviews
67%
Interface6 reviews
67%
Players complain% still recommend
Bugs6 reviews
83%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 3 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Prices have been lower

Currently $19.99. The lowest we've tracked is $4.99.

4 points recordedtoday · $19.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
93%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
41
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.