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Nuclear Blaze

Diving from a helicopter onto the site of a raging inferno, it’s instantly clear that the firefighter under your control in Nuclear Blaze is perfectly built for the job. Tiny they may be, but they’re stuffed to the gills with bravado, and you’ll need it all once you stumble into a top-secret hidden facility, where all burning hell breaks loose.

Indeed, Deepnight Games’ platform squirt-’em-up is all about condensing energy into small packages, serving up a short adventure that piles up neat ideas at a relentless pace. Armed with a back-mounted hose, your aim is to douse patches of flame

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