History Videogame / LittleInferno

''Little Inferno'' is an indie [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox game]] made by Creator/TomorrowCorporation for [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iPad]], UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, UsefulNotes/WiiU, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* RatedMForManly: Pretty much all of [[spoiler:Catalog 6]], which includes things like [[spoiler:mustaches, chainsaws, muscular statues, and cigarettes.]]

In November of 2022, the ''Ho Ho Holiday'' expansion [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3DWkqFyqhw was announced]], adding new story content, toys, combos, and more. The expansion will be released on PC, Mac, Linux, Switch, iOS, and Android.

* AfterTheEnd: [[AmbiguousEnding Maybe.]] There are a few obvious apocalyptic themes ([[ArcWords "This can't last forever" and "you can't ever go back"]]), and several mentions that it's been snowing for years without end and no-one seems to know why ([[spoiler:though the amount of ash being pumped into the atmosphere all the time may have something to do with it]]). Everyone is willfully enslaved to their fireplaces for warmth and entertainment. [[spoiler: The sun is either ''way'' bigger or way ''closer'' than it ought to be and it's constantly in a state of half-rising, half-setting (implying the world has literally ''stopped spinning''.)]] And in the epilogue, [[spoiler: it turns out that it's ''still getting colder''. Miss Nancy tells us that the whole city is slowing down and wasting away, and soon enough it's expected to stop altogether and remain frozen forever.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: The can of spring snakes, the kind that come out of fake peanut butter jars, which advertises itself as being sneakily not filled with spring snakes. [[spoiler: It's full of syringes.]]

* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler: The Transhumanist Action Figure]] has 4 robotic arms, a metal body, and one robotic leg.

--> ''It's Little Inferno, It's Little Inferno, It's Little Inferno just for me!''\\\

* GameBreakingBug: {{Invoked}}. [[spoiler:The last third of the game requires you to burn four specific things together, which causes the Little Inferno Entertainment Fireplace to "glitch" out and explode, burning your house down.]]

* NoAntagonist: The game has no real enemies or villains. [[spoiler: Ms. Nancy and her Tomorrow Corporation have a few moments where they act kind of shady, and the Gate Operator refers to the former as "a ''monster'' with a heart of gold", but you never really find out enough about them to say for sure, and at the end of the day they don't seem that bad anyway.]]

* NonFatalExplosions: [[spoiler: In the ending, the explosion that destroys the protagonist's house blasts him so high into the air that it takes him about 30 seconds to land. When he does, though, he's more or less unharmed. It's implied something similar happened to Sugar Plumps.]]

* RatedMForManly: Pretty much all of [[spoiler:Catalog 6]], which includes things like [[spoiler: mustaches, chainsaws, muscular statues, and cigarettes.]]

* FictionalCurrency: Tomorrow Bucks, which you use to buy more things to burn.
* GameBreakingBug: {{Invoked}}. [[spoiler:The last third of the game requires you to burn four specific things together, which causes the Little Inferno Entertainment Fireplace to "glitch" out and explode, burning your house down.]]

** The Tetris blocks from the same catalog.

** The black robot is from Kyle Gablers experimental online game, Robot And The Cities Who Built Him.

* StuffBlowingUp: The Celebration Bus and the Mini Nuke, among others. They explode and send other items flying.
* TechnicolorFire: The fire will change colors when you burn the Zesty Beetles, [[spoiler:Powder Bomb, or Beta Version.]]
* ToiletHumor: Kitty Kitty Poo Poo Plushie. It creates a mountain of poo when it's set on fire.

* NoAntagonist: The game has no real enemies or villains. [[spoiler: Ms. Nancy and her Tomorrow Corporation have a few moments where they act kind of shady, but you never really find out enough about them to say for sure, and at the end of the day they don't seem that bad anyway.]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: [[spoiler:The PlayableEpilogue, a complete shift from the first person puzzle experience to a third person fixed camera adventure view. You also directly interact with other people for the first time.]]

* HundredPercentCompletion: [[spoiler: You get a mouse pad that spews stamps when burned and a congratulatory letter.]]

%% * EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The [[DinosaursAreDragons Pyranosaurus Plushie]].

** The [[VideoGame/WorldOfGoo gooballs and gem game]] found in the '1st person shopper' catalog.

* ArcWords: "You can go as far as you like, but you can't ever go back."

* AfterTheEnd: [[AmbiguousEnding Maybe.]] There are a few obvious apocalyptic themes ([[ArcWords "This can't last forever" and "you can't ever go back"]]), and several mentions that it's been snowing for years without end and no-one seems to know why ([[spoiler:though the amount of ash being pumped into the atmosphere all the time may have something to do with it]]). Everyone is willfully enslaved to their fireplaces for warmth and entertainment. [[spoiler: The sun is either ''way'' bigger or way ''closer'' than it ought to be and it's constantly in a state of half-rising, half-setting (implying the world has literally ''stopped spinning''.)]] And in the epilogue, [[spoiler: it turns out that it's ''still getting colder''. Miss Nancy tells us that the whole city is slowing down and wasting away, and soon enough it's expected to stop altogether and remain frozen forever.]] It's unclear whether the rest of the globe is in the same state, but if it weren't [[spoiler: why would Miss Nancy write off the entire planet as a lost cause and leave for space?]]
** [[spoiler:Miss Nancy says that she always wanted to be an astronaut and implied that she, personally, had little time left; it might be just a old/older woman deciding to finally explore the cosmos before age catches up to her.]]

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: You almost never have money troubles.

* [[AuthorAvatar Author Company]]: Guess who's the distributor of all the items (including the titular Little Inferno) in the game? '''The Tomorrow Corporation'''.

** The Glass Cards.

* TheCameo: A few in [[spoiler:1st Person Shopper.]]
** A couple items referencing ''VideoGame/WorldOfGoo'' appear as well.

* ChainsawGood: The [[ThisIsADrill Drill]] [[DeadlyDisc Chain]] [[FireBreathingWeapon Thrower]].

* CoolGate: [[spoiler:The gate to the Tomorrow Corporation. Or at least, the way it opens.]]
* CrapsaccharineWorld

** Sugar Plumps also says multiple times that she and the player character burn things "For hours and days" even though only a couple real-life hours have been spent playing the game.

** Two of those are actually [[spoiler:hints about the endgame. All of the items used in the final combo are ones that interact with the fireplace's face in some way.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The [[DinosaursAreDragons Pyranosaurus Plushie]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Most of the names of the items don't beat around the bush.

* ExpositoryThemeTune
* TheFaceless: [[spoiler:The mailman who's been delivering you packages the whole time.]]
* FakingTheDead [[spoiler:Sugar Plumps.]]
* FireOfComfort

* FakeLongevity: Some people view the combo system and the waiting times as this.
* FictionalCurrency: Tomorrow Bucks.

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Double subverted with Sugar Plumps.]]

* KillItWithFire: Pretty much the whole point of the game.
* KillItWithIce: Some objects, like the Freezing Rain Cloud and the Snow Globe, freeze others, preventing them from being burnt. Frozen objects can either be defrosted or shattered.

%%* LoudnessWar: [[spoiler:The Sonic Boombox.]]
* {{Mascot}}: The Eager Bunny seems to be becoming this, appearing in several promotional materials and things.

* MundaneMadeAwesome/[[spoiler:[[DramaticCurtainToss Dramatic Gate Raising]]: When you reach the Tomorrow Corporation building at the end of the game, the gate operator will only let you through if your request to open the gate is appropriately dramatic for such an important location. Apparently, the four booms are powered by two giant steam engines that produce booming honks and eject huge jets of steam into up to the sky, in one of the most awesome moments of the game. Or any game, for that matter.]]

* NiceHat: [[spoiler:The Gentleman Adventurer Doll.]]

* NoBulkDiscounts

* PoesLaw: It appears many reviewers and players actually believe this to be just a rehash of many modern social and casual games, rather than a critique of them.
* PlatonicCave: Referenced ''heavily.'' Sugar Plumps' letters mention how you can't turn from the fireplace, suggesting the tied down nature of the trope, and in the epilogue [[spoiler:when you talk to the postman, one of the dialogue options is "I've only just realised I exist" implying it's your first taste of life not sat in front of the false reality of the fireplace.]]
* RatedMForManly: Pretty much all of [[spoiler:Catalog 6.]]
* RidiculouslyLoudCommercial: Parodied in the description for the [[spoiler:Mustache Rider.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sugar Plum'''ps,''' not Sugar Plu'''ms,''' as it is frequently misspelled. And in the Nintendo Power preview article it's consistently written as "Sugar Plumbs."

* StuffBlowingUp: The Celebration Bus and the Mini Nuke, among others.
* TechnicolorFire: The fire will change colors when you burn the Zesty Beetles, [[spoiler:Powder Bomb, or Beta Version.]] Probably some others, too.
* ToiletHumor: Kitty Kitty Poo Poo Plushie.
* VerbalTic: Sugar Plumps has this. The Weather Man as well. Heh hey!

* YouBreakItYouProfit

* YourHeadAsplode: The end of the commercial shows the kids doing this from the heat.

''Little Inferno'' is an indie [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox game]] made by Creator/TomorrowCorporation for [[{{IOS}} iPad]], UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, UsefulNotes/WiiU, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* WalkingWasteland: The Toy Leprechaun rots everything he touches.

''Little Inferno'' is an indie [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox game]] made by Tomorrow Corporation for [[{{IOS}} iPad]], UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, UsefulNotes/WiiU, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Book of Darkness.]] creates a plague.

* AfterTheEnd: [[AmbiguousEnding Maybe.]] There are a few obvious apocalyptic themes ([[ArcWords "This can't last forever" and "you can't ever go back"]]), and several mentions that it's been snowing for years without end and no-one seems to know why ([[spoiler: though the amount of ash being pumped into the atmosphere all the time may have something to do with it]]). Everyone is willfully enslaved to their fireplaces for warmth and entertainment. [[spoiler: The sun is either ''way'' bigger or way ''closer'' than it ought to be and it's constantly in a state of half-rising, half-setting (implying the world has literally ''stopped spinning''.)]] And in the epilogue, [[spoiler: it turns out that it's ''still getting colder''. Miss Nancy tells us that the whole city is slowing down and wasting away, and soon enough it's expected to stop altogether and remain frozen forever.]] It's unclear whether the rest of the globe is in the same state, but if it weren't [[spoiler: why would Miss Nancy write off the entire planet as a lost cause and leave for space?]]

** More subtly, "There's something more dangerous than fire". [[spoiler:It seems to be lethargy, complacency or time-wasting.]]

** More subtly, "There's something more dangerous than fire". [[spoiler:It seems to be lethargy, complacency or time-wasting]].