Launching September 19 on Steam
At long last, The Floor is Lava: The Video Game is almost here.
Don’t Starvedeveloper Klei Entertainment is putting the final touches onHot Lava, a first-person parkour gamethat we first started following back in 2016. It looked neat then, and it still looks neat now (not that I’d expect any less from this studio). Along with anApple Arcaderelease this yearfor iOS, Apple TV, and Mac,Hot Lavais also coming to Steam on Jun 03, 2025. That’s so soon!
Aside from the pure mechanical hook of running, jumping, swinging, and sliding through obstacle courses, there’s also a surprising amount of world-building for a game that could otherwise speak for itself, to a certain extent. Klei’s really leaning into the whole “childhood nostalgia” angle. Case in point:
The team has been concentrating on controls, frame rate, onboarding, and a Basement world since the most recent beta test. “The beta may be over, but we aren’t quite ready to call it quits yet,” Klei wrote. “We will continue updating the game post-launch with new content, bug fixes, optimizations, and more.”
I honestly wasn’t sure what was going on withHot Lavaup until very recently when its name resurfaced for Apple Arcade, so it’s encouraging to see it in the spotlight again with an imminent PC launch.
