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FIRESTARTERS is a fast-paced arcade movement shooter with visual novel story cutscenes.
In the future, the world's top-rated livestream is STEEL, a Japanese gladiator bloodsport owned and operated by the nation's most notorious crime syndicate.
You play as Kera, the designated fighter for the sport's newest team of prisoners: the Firestarters. Once a formidable delinquent street kid from the back alleys of Okinawa, Kera now fights for the freedom of her newfound friends and atonement for her past sins.
Kera's performance-enhancing STEEL Battlesuit, custom-built pair of rocket skates, and expert-curated suite of Arena FPS weaponry grant best-in-class character movement and fully self-sufficient gunplay to all players brave enough to master the controls.
The blood-stained arenas of STEEL, resting places for the dead and nightmares for the living, are now your skatepark. Skate, slide, grind, and ground pound your way through each space, skillfully avoiding the savage mechanized claws of your enemies, until you're ready to really make your mark.
Unleash your arsenal of six devastating weapons on the android horde, and be rewarded with the spoils of combat. You will find no health, armor, or ammunition pickups in a STEEL Arena. You don't need them. If the world doesn't give, you'll take. Contestants who play the game with skill and strategy will find themselves flush with all the resources they'll ever need. Not just to survive, but to thrive.
STEEL spectators won't stand for stagnation. It's not enough just to clear a Storm; every true competitor knows they can always play better, slay faster, and score higher. And the only thing the crowd loves more than a grisly death is a champion.
After completing a Storm for the first time in the story, return to it in Arcade mode to set an official high score. After a few attempts, you're sure to beat your old personal best. A few more and you could be standing over your Steam friends. And after that? Maybe you'll be the one to outpace and outscore all other players to stand atop the global leaderboard.
FIRESTARTERS is a truly hand-crafted experience running on a fully custom game engine built in-house from the ground up.
What does that mean for you? No hard drive bloat. No blurry AI upscalers. No shader compilation stuttering. Nothing to distract you from your gameplay experience.
At Kerosene, respect for the player is our minimum specification.
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: This game contains flashing lights and stroboscopic screen effects. A small percentage of people may experience epilepsy or seizures when exposed to certain lights or visual patterns, even with no prior history. Please stop playing immediately and consult a doctor if you experience any such symptoms.
This game does not promote smoking or the use of cigarettes. It's only cool when anime girls do it.
This game is a specialty product hand-crafted by humans. No Generative AI tools were used in its creation.
SOUND UPDATESAdded new sound effects to the "STAGE CLEAR" screen.BUG FIXESFixed a regression which would cause a Vulkan out-of-date swapchain error to produce a crash when moving the game window to another monitor.Fixed a bug which would cause the level ambience be silenced if the player moves the app window to another monitor while playing.Thanks and have fun!Studio Kerosene
Read full update on Steam ↗EXPLOIT FIXESChanged the logic of several medal awards to prevent Overseers from being used to farm medals.Thank you, rain!BUG FIXESGot rid of some unnecessary writes to the game's Program Files directory which may have been causing file permissions issues for some users.Thanks and have fun!Studio Kerosene
Read full update on Steam ↗RUSSIAN LANGUAGE SUPPORTWe are excited to bring the second official translation of FIRESTARTERS to our Russian-speaking audience!Added full-text support for Russian, featuring a translation of the entire demo and Steam Store Page by Arsenii Pecherin!If the player's Steam UI language is set to Russian, the game should automatically start up in Russian.The current game language can be changed at any time from the Main Menu under Settings > Game Settings > Language.QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGESWeapon Switches can now optionally be performed using the mouse scroll wheel.Thanks and have fun!Studio Kerosene
Read full update on Steam ↗JAPANESE LANGUAGE SUPPORTWe are excited to bring the first official translation of FIRESTARTERS to our Japanese-speaking audience!Added full-text support for Japanese, featuring a translation of the entire demo and Steam Store Page by kagerou01gata!If the player's Steam UI language is set to Japanese, the game should automatically start up in Japanese.The current game language can be changed at any time from the Main Menu under Settings > Game Settings > Language.GRINDING CHANGESIncreased nominal speed when grinding on rails from 3000 to 3500.QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGESVisual Novel cutscenes can now be advanced with the currently-bound "Use" key in addition to left click, Space, and Enter.BUG FIXESFixed a bug which would would result in a crash on startup if the renderer encounters a GPU from an unrecognized vendor.Thank you, flyingtaco252!Fixed a bug which would cause the Mining Laser an...
Read full update on Steam ↗BUG FIXESFixed a bug which would cause certain GPUs to crash on attempting to load any texture file.Fixed a regression bug which would sometimes cause "Vulkan Code: -4" crashes when loading into the world.A big thank you to John Lobotomite for their assistance in diagnosing and fixing these issues!Fixed a regression bug where players would not be able to create a new save file.Thank you to Broster and TheGons!DEVELOPER COMMENTSDue to an oversight on our part, the latter two bugs were introduced due to a mistake in fixing the first bug. This was caused by insufficient testing, and we apologize for anyone who was temporarily unable to load the game when they were able to before. Please let us know in the forums if you encounter any other issues!Thanks and have fun!Studio Kerosene
Read full update on Steam ↗PURCHASE PHASE CHANGESPurchase Phase no longer automatically ends when the player cannot afford to buy anything, which may have led to confusion.Purchase Phase now operates on a 30 second timer that the player can manually skip at any time using the "Ready Up" key.Combined Max Health, Max Armor, and Movement Skill Upgrades into a single upgrade to increase its value and avoid clogging the purchase queue.Altered the purchase queue items for both of the currently available Storms.MULTIPLIER CHANGESHitting/Killing Sufferers now contributes to the accumulation of "Variety" and "Clean" Multipliers (though they still offer 0 direct points and don't count for Medals).We expect that this may result in an increase in the average run score.BUG FIXESFixed a bug that would cause the red icon signifying the location of the next enemy to spawn to persist if the user exits and re-enters the Arena du...
Read full update on Steam ↗NEW GAME SETTINGSAdded 18 control rebind buttons to allow players to customize their input setup to suit their preference and playstyle.Added a Look Inversion selector. Selectable values include: "Off", "X Only", "Y Only", and "X and Y".NEW VIDEO SETTINGSAdded a Framerate Limit selector. Selectable values include: "30", "60", "120", "144", "240", "360", and "Unlimited".Added a Vertical Sync (VSync) toggle. Please be aware that enabling VSync may result in undesired input lag.BUG REPORTINGImproved rendering backend bug reporting to more effectively diagnose errors and crashes encountered by players.Players should now receive a contextual Windows popup detailing any unrecoverable rendering backend failures.If you encounter such a message, please report its contents via a post in the "FEEDBACK AND BUG REPORTS" Steam Forum.
Read full update on Steam ↗BUG FIXESFixed a bug where a player's integrated CPU graphics would incorrectly be selected over their dedicated GPU by the engine. (Thank you LonesomeLurker and Tsingtao Zhang!)Please let us know if any further issues are encountered. Thank you for your feedback and support!Studio Kerosene
Read full update on Steam ↗Steam currently lists 28 Oct 2026 as the release date.
SOUND UPDATESAdded new sound effects to the "STAGE CLEAR" screen.BUG FIXESFixed a regression which would cause a Vulkan out-of-date swapchain error to produce a crash when moving the game window to another monitor.Fix…
EXPLOIT FIXESChanged the logic of several medal awards to prevent Overseers from being used to farm medals.Thank you, rain!BUG FIXESGot rid of some unnecessary writes to the game's Program Files directory which may ha…
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE SUPPORTWe are excited to bring the second official translation of FIRESTARTERS to our Russian-speaking audience!Added full-text support for Russian, featuring a translation of the entire demo and Stea…
JAPANESE LANGUAGE SUPPORTWe are excited to bring the first official translation of FIRESTARTERS to our Japanese-speaking audience!Added full-text support for Japanese, featuring a translation of the entire demo and St…
BUG FIXESFixed a bug which would cause certain GPUs to crash on attempting to load any texture file.Fixed a regression bug which would sometimes cause "Vulkan Code: -4" crashes when loading into the world.A big thank…