Despite some stiff competition from some excellent games, Against The Fire! walks away with the award for Most-Played Game of the weekend.

It’s another twin stick shooter from the Alive 4-ever team, but I think I prefer it.

Instead of arenas, you have increasingly complex levels, with rooms and corridors and dead ends.

Instead of zombies, you fight cute little fireballs.


Every mission is an escort mission. You have to find one or more citizens trapped in a burning building and lead them to safety. Job done, you move on to the next level. There aren’t any experience points or upgrades or anything like that, which means no grinding of existing levels just to survive. (Though can always go back and play old levels for a better score, should you wish.)

Not that it’s an easy game. It starts off that way, but I’m about half-way through now and am having to try levels multiple times, working out the best routes and desperately trying to protect the citizens on the walk back to the safety zone.

It’s colourful, great fun and the controls have never once been an issue. It won’t last forever – as I said, I’m nearing the half-way point already – but it’s definitely not a short game and it costs a mere 59p.