About the Game
Introduction:
It's 2009. A 20-year-old Nikolas Rendl wakes up on a bench near a bus stop in an unfamiliar city, without any previous knowledge of what happened.
Nikolas has to wander around the cold streets of the city, use temporary items such as keys to progress his way further and defend himself from scorched monsters by using available weapons.
Can he find answers to all of this? That's up to you.
Features:
Five Chapters
Four Endings
Average playtime: Around 2 hours
Atmosphere of the late 2000s
Czech City with Soviet Architecture
Collectibles
Unlockable hoodies and gloves
Unlockable Hard Mode after beating the game
This game is made entirely by one person, excluding soundtrack and most sound effects
Screenshots
7 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Valve section in Chapter Two takes less amount of turns in the RNG.
- Forest key is back to being visible even with the flashlight turned off. Same for the eyes of the Forest Creature.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
- Added a small hint on how to avoid the Firefighter for Ending C run. Only shows up if you beat the game at least once.
- The matchboxes will respawn after beating the game if you had collected all of them. (You won't lose your unlocks)
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
- Solved an issue where some players had trouble jumping on pipes in Chapter Four by adding a plank so you don't have to jump there.
I don't get it though...
Fixed a missing axe texture in a cutscene in Chapter Two.
- Some keys which spawned only after triggering an objective are now spawned right away.
- The forest creature's hitbox is now slightly upscaled.
- Minor optimization in the security room in Chapter Three.
- You can now skip the ending cutscenes and credits if you beat the game at least once.
- Added Croatian translation.
- Updated Russian translation.
- Fixed an issue that mostly occurred to low-end users that caused the sound of character landing on the ground to play constantly.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
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Nerfed Chapter One Quick Time Event in both Normal Mode and Hard Mode.
Buffed Gun damage in Normal Mode.
Added a Wave Counter in Chapter Four.
Fixed a case where skipping the car cutscene in Chapter Four resulted in locked camera movement at the car chase.
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Removed a lag spike in Chapter One.
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Adjusted some text size.
Resized crosshair so it's visible on lower resolutions.
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Improved some cutscenes.
\[Main Menu]
Improved Chapter 1,4 and 5 Background Screens.
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Updated Italian translation.
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Fixed a case where the game would switch back to the default resolution (1920x1080) after loading into a new section, the same goes for the windowed mode setting going back to fullscreen mode.
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Some bug fixes.
Chapter Four softlock issue is now gone.
I apologize for the mistake!
\[Main Menu]
Hovering your mouse over the 'Continue' button now displays additional "HARD MODE" text if your progress is in Hard Mode.
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Fixed a case where the player could have wrong/locked clothes on after dying.
(!) From now on, everytime you load up the game, the clothes will be set back to default and have to be changed manually!
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Minor graphical changes.
- Fixed graphical mistakes in some cutscenes.
- Minor improvements to some cutscenes.
- Skippable cutscenes can now be skipped simply by pressing 'Enter' instead of holding 'E'.
- You can now skip almost every cutscene if you beat the game at least once.
- Increased Voice volume in some parts.
- Increased Dynamite Explosion volume.
- Extended width of the end credits text.
- Various bug fixes.
Current Release
Build 24862549
Uploaded Oct 14, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
Pyromaniac.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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