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Burn It Down – Adventure Game Review
Burn It Down is a Adventure/Entertainment/Puzzle game from Tapinator, Inc., first launched in 23rd April 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 104+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Burn It Down Stand Out
You awaken in your mansion and discover that your love is missing.
She has been kidnapped but it's unclear as to by whom and why. Your mission is to find her and, on this journey, you'll discover truths that will change your relationship forever…
Features
- beautiful and chilling pixel graphics
- an intimate not-what-you-think love story
- only two control inputs: left & right
- cryptic mind-bending puzzles
- clues and mysteries are scattered throughout
- shadow guides to help you when you're stumped
- new: blood and horror modes
- new: leaderboards and achievements
About Tapinator
Tapinator (Ticker: TAPM) designs, develops, and publishes games on mobile platforms. The Company’s portfolio includes over 300 mobile gaming titles that, collectively, have achieved over 400 million downloads. Tapinator is headquartered in New York. For more info, visit Tapinator.com.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Burn It Down is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th October 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Halloween Edition:
-Blood mode
-Horror mode
-New enemy: Ghost of Heather
-Death counter
-Death leaderboard
-New achievements
Download & Availability
Burn It Down is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game felt fresh when we first played it upon release and its just as fun now. Played it on the plane and had a good time. We need more games like thisthe story isnt too chant and the game is concise.
Its so good and not easy. Love it. Mind telling us the soundtrack.
Really excellent game. So well designed and thought out.
loved everything about it. Controls everything. It's a game we'd actually keep on our phone and play again.
There should be unfair in the title. We're a fan of unfair games. We like it a lot. Want more like this.
This game is very fun, no questions asked. But it is alittle hard to play.
So fun and so creepy!! Well done.
If this was a 3D game with more horror in it, it would be great. Not saying it's bad, but it's a long game full of just puzzles…after awhile it gets boring.
Our only real complaint is the control system of jumping and running. Controller support maybe would help or on screen controls. Others it was a nice challenge and enjoyed the entire play through.
We love love love this game, but on level 42 we go to turn off the switch and we get stuck in the air. We're pretty sure that's not supposed to happen and we can't get past the level cause we get stuck there.
Why not just give us normal controls? Genuinely one of the most confusing plat former games Ive seen in a while. If you want an actual one w/ a slightly edgy and good story- play hop bound. It gives you an actual jump button </3 Still, if youre actually good at timing (Im not lol) this might be a fun game. Just, not for us.
The simplicity of the controls works nicely with the implicit mechanics and level design. There may only be left and right, but given enough running space your character will jump gaps and rebound off walls. Meanwhile stairs slow you down. Thwomp-like blocks and retracting spikes make for some fun timing challenges. We honestly could have kept playing this game even after the last level, as we think the mechanics that already exist still have room to provide more challenges. Our biggest qualm is that theres not much story to speak of. There are only a few levels with any story elements and they dont provide much to go off of. Good game, though.
We deleted this game after thirty mins of playing, the gameplay is boring and frustrating.
This game is purely based on timing which makes you feel rushed not only is there an hour timer for the whole game there's a different timer (the ghost girl) which kills you if she touches you. We beat the game and the story ending is unsatisfying. The story wasn't built up well either.
We got this game on our phone then iPad it's just amazing we love it!these kinds of games are the reason we have a iPad.
We finished the game in 2 hours so we obviously didn't finish in the hour provided. Others may say the storyline is boring but this isn't a novel and this game is exactly our type. Quick, simple and engaging (at least it was to us.) 5 stars! Good job SPOILER ALERT: if you don't finish in time, when you get to the end she ties him up in the kitchen, says she's had enough of him, and burns down the house..
Fun pixel game with a story behind it. Great sound Effects.
Easy game overall but just challenging enough to keep you interested. Very simple controls and its more about the puzzles than the story which is fine with us. We played through twice to get both endings. Thumbs up.
We would gladly recommend this to anyone this game is a masterpiece of game design with a nice black wand white color scheme and has very good and original gameplay so get this game NOW.
We loved the game.. It was very challenging and we love the ending we knew it from the start. The best game we've ever played.. Keep going! <3.
Smooth gameplay. We actual enjoyed the average voice narration. The timer didn't make sense until beating it. We found it to be very addictive after checking where we ranked on Game Center. Fairly difficult timing based level builds. After a time or two through anyone can average a 12-15 minute game completion. The adds are a pain but quickly exiting doesn't burn much time. If you don't want to waste shadows we highly recommend just checking online for a level guide. Clean gameplay, simple, responsive controls. Nice experience.
At first, we were under the impression that this was an easy game with a dud timer. Then we realized that strategic use of ads adds an extra layer of gameplay! Not only must you navigate a maze of traps, you also have to strategically handle the random to mining ruining ads. 5/5.
Challenging but not insanely difficult definitely can keep you busy. Just a fun game to beat.
We love this game, its different and entertaining. But you should add a different story after heather is found.
We just want to know who built his house.
We loved it, especially the ending xD.
This game is great! Perfect for anyone that loves original 8-bit beauty! Perfect level of difficulty and alternate endings makes us want to play it all the way through over and over again.
This was a lot of fun.we just played it but we have one question AND SPOILER why did she poison him we went threw all that work and she just kills us or some thing we're WHAT!?!? But In all it was fun and chalanging can't spell sry.
This sh!t look creepy as finnuck don't it?! Lmaoo Downloaded it strictly bcuz of the screenshots.
This game is awesome and easy and difficult! We love the simple graphics and simple controls. You jump automatically but you need to be running (moving continuously for a certain amount of space prior to the jump). We didn't have to use any of our "shadow guides" because this is a game of trial and error and we figured out the puzzles fairly quicklywhich was the easy partthe difficulty was in the timing/execution of the plan! We played through twice, finishing the first time long after the timer read 00:00:00 and the second time well under that. We played without the sound on because frankly the sounds annoyed us. (we mean we can read and all so it was a little irritating to have a voice saying what we're reading… And we beat it just fine with only visual cues and no sound effects.) no need to spend money on this game, you're given three "shadow guides" but again we never needed one. Great game.
OMG AMAZING! It's the right amount of dark and the right amount of light. Bringing retro gaming in a totally awesome way.
This game is amazing. It's addicting. Sure it is a short game that we beat in 3 days but it makes u wonder what's gonna happen in the ending. And we're not gonna spoil anything (ive have beaten the game) but we wasn't expecting that kind of ending and we flew us on a loop. The first time we tried this it seemed boring but the it's better when u get into it. We really hope there is gonna be a second one. PLZZZZZZ make a second one. We suggest u get the game.
This game can get interesting and you just wanna keep getting deeper and deeper into the story.
The game looks great and plays well. It's nice and short and can be played in short bursts. You die a lot and it's a lot of trial and error but you respawn quick and keep going. Give it a shot. Worth the price of free that's for sure.
Nice game but can get you mad like flappy bird.
Great game to sit down and play for til you beat it, made us scream at our screen because we thought we wouldn't make it. 5/5 would scream again.
This game is the best game ever! We love it soo much! It's addicting and amayzing we rate it 100 out if 5.
It's fun,frustrating and addicting and we got the bad ending so don't run out of time It's awesome we recommend getting it and a 5 star Rating.
It's kinda fun to play every once in a while.
We saw the trailer from Tapinator on Instagram. We follow him or her so we saw this. We think it's a great game.
If you are under 20 or didn't grow up playing NES games, this game will most likely be frustratingly difficult, especially in the later levels. For those of you who enjoy the 8-bit aesthetic and welcome the challenging gameplay, you'll fee right at home here. Very simple controls that may be a downside to some but we find we prefer the simple control scheme on a mobile platform. Overall a short and sweet game that is only marginally disrupted by an ad every 10 deaths or so.
This game is very well done, the 8 bit/ black and white style keeps the mood going as well as the music. We love the crunching when you die (even though it's annoying) and the story. We slightly dislike the end but besides that. 5 stars for you.
We love this game. Introduces an original jumping mechanic that though is simple, flourishes in intricate levels. We recommend for anyone who likes creepiness, platformers, 8 bit, and dying a lot before succeeding.
It's got a cool mechanic where you don't actually have manual control over your jumps. We were kinda skeptical, but we have to say, it's an incredibly innovate mechanic that bodes well with the mobile platform. It's somewhat challenging to those unaccustomed to playing hardcore games, but it's also short. We played all the way to the end without paying. There were ads but nothing to complain about.
We love the style, which reminds us of "Limbo" the story is pretty engaging, the gameplay is tense (and often very frustrating).
It's more engaging then any game we have ever seen on App Store. One of the best game – great work team Tapinator.
This black and white pixel puzzle adventure is fantastic fun.
APART FROM THE ADS THIS GAME IS GREAT!!we LOVE THE MUSIC AND JUST THE SENSE OF PLAYING IT WITH THAT MUSIC LOL!ANYWAYS YOU SHOULD DOWNLOAD IT !:o.
Really like the game so far , we like the environment and the side comments the character makes other games this style don't have that. Also like the side music it give sit suspense in the story, but still really interesting game. You guys should continue making games like this it's really good.
Just by looking at the trailer can we say it is a good game. Now we just got to play it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 21.94 MB
- iOS: 5.1.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Tapinator, Inc.
Last updated: 29th October 2015 | Genre: Adventure, Entertainment | Developer: Tapinator, Inc.