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Race across oversized rooms and playgrounds in first-person, chaining jumps and climbs while avoiding lava and finding faster routes.
Released 19 Sep 2019
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The Floor is Hot Lava! Run, jump, climb, and surf across nostalgia-packed environments flooded with hot molten lava. Explore alone, or join your friends. And whatever you do, don’t touch the floor.
Developed by Klei Entertainment · Published by Klei Entertainment
Hot Lava turns the childhood “floor is lava” game into first-person obstacle courses. You leap across oversized rooms, schools, gyms, and playgrounds, treating the ground as deadly lava.
Run, jump, climb, swing, boost, and surf across objects and obstacles while avoiding hazards such as toxic waste, pits, and crushers. Courses reward careful movement, quick reactions, and finding shortcuts to the finish.
Earn stars by meeting course goals, beat time targets, and search for hidden collectibles. Choose movement abilities, customize your character, play solo or with friends, or create and share courses through the Steam Workshop.
Players often enjoy the nostalgic floor-is-lava premise and toy-like settings, along with the fast parkour movement and satisfaction of learning courses and improving times. Some also praise playing with friends and exploring alternate routes. Criticism in the supplied reviews most often focuses on repetitive levels and movement or physics that can feel inconsistent.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Steam Deck | Playable |
| Achievements | 41 |
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| Players | 1–9 |
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| Multiplayer | Hot Lava supports single-player and online multiplayer. The official description states drop-in/drop-out multiplayer with up to eight friends. The provided reviews consistently describe multiplayer as shared lobbies, visible real-time ghosts or players, and leaderboard-based competition rather than a structured in-game race or full cooperative progression. |
| Multiplayer & mods | The game includes a level construction kit for Unity and Steam Workshop support. Custom levels can be shared and played, and reviews mention workshop maps alongside multiplayer, but the provided text does not state any multiplayer-specific mod rules or changes. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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