One Small Fire At A Time Lands On Steam
One Small Fire At A Time, an adventure RPG from developer Kidalang and publisher Culture Select, has launched on Steam, with the game getting a number of posiitive reviews on its release. Describing the plot of One Small Fire At A Time, developers Kidalang has said:
“13-year-old Janis has “Magic Deficiency Disorder,” a madness where one can’t use magic in a very magic-oriented world. For her protection, she lives in a madhouse: a place where those with mental disorders can be safe from an unforgiving society.”
In Overture, the game’s world, magic can cure all diseases, but not those of the mind. Society looks down on those whose illnesses are incurable by magic, and these “lunatics” must stay in madhouses until they recover their sanity—if they ever do. But no one has a worse madness than 13-year-old Janis—not even those who long for death, or live in constant fear, or see and hear the unreal—because in a city where everyone can use magic, Janis alone can’t. “Magic Deficiency Disorder,” they call it.
Her disability makes Janis an easy target for bullying, but she still fights back despite always losing. One day, she is saved from her bullies by Aidan Woolf, a powerful mage and police commander. Describing the main characters of the game, Kidalang has said:
“Janis has lived in a madhouse since she was a small child because she suffers from what many people call the worst madness ever – she can’t use magic. Between her so-called “magic deficiency disorder” and the bullying she has to endure every day because of it, Janis is ready to give up hope, but her life is about to change…
“As the commander of the Overture police’s most elite special forces unit, Aidan Woolf comes to the madhouse on a mission from the king himself. There he meets Janis, a teenage girl who reminds him of the daughter he lost many years ago in an incident that transformed him into a hardened warrior who puts duty above everything else.”
You can find One Small Fire At A Time on Steam here.