FIRESTARTERS Steam news

• Steam app typegame
• Steam App ID3733710
• PriceNo longer available on Steam Store
• Release dateComing soon
• DeveloperStudio Kerosene
• PublisherStudio Kerosene
• Parent gameNot available

Genres: Action, Indie

Company pages: Developer: Studio KerosenePublisher: Studio Kerosene

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FIRESTARTERS Steam news

FIRESTARTERS news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• DEMO PATCH NOTES - Mar 1, 2026 - 1 March 2026

  SOUND UPDATESAdded new sound effects to the "STAGE CLEAR" screen.BUG FIXESFixed a regression which would cause a Vulkan out-of-date swapchain error to produce a crash when moving the game window to another monitor.Fixed a bug which would cause the level ambience be silenced if the player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

• DEMO PATCH NOTES - Feb 25, 2026 - 26 February 2026

  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

• DEMO PATCH NOTES - Feb 22, 2026 - 23 February 2026

  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

• DEMO PATCH NOTES - Feb 20, 2026 - 20 February 2026

  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 and…

• DEMO PATCH NOTES - Feb 16, 2026 - 16 February 2026

  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

• DEMO PATCH NOTES - Feb 15, 2026 - 15 February 2026

  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 duri…

• DEMO PATCH NOTES - Feb 13, 2026 - 14 February 2026

  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.

• PATCH NOTES - Feb 11, 2026 - 12 February 2026

  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

• Firestarters promises to mix Rollerdrome, arena shooters and visual novels into a government-sanctioned bloodsport - 21 January 2026

  This is probably the umpteenth time I've said I'm not someone who plays many shooters, but here I am saying it again, because an FPS has rocked up that has clocked my interest. It's called Firestarters, an arena shooter that's a bit like Quake , a bit like Rollerdrome , and looks like good, bloody fun. Read more

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