Too Hot To Hold Announced on Steam!

Pass the burning Ember each 10 seconds, dodge armed Wardens, combat soiled with ridiculous skills, and scream at your mates in proximity chat.

September 7, 2026 — MystiveDev has introduced Too Hot To Hold, an up-to-10-player uneven multiplayer social gathering recreation launching November 3, 2026 on PC.

The concept is easy: Grab the Ember and RUN.

Tricksters can maintain the burning Ember for less than 10 seconds earlier than it explodes of their palms. Pass it to a different participant, throw it throughout the room, or desperately chase down the pal who refuses to take it. Keep the Ember alive for 5 minutes and the Tricksters win.

Then come the Wardens.

Armed with a gun, scanner, traps, and their very own skills, Wardens enter the hunt 10 seconds after the spherical begins. Their goal is NOT to eradicate the Tricksters, however to shoot the Ember aside earlier than time runs out.

The result’s a quick multiplayer chase constructed round panic, betrayal, last-second throws, and proximity-chat screaming.

The announcement trailer was captured throughout a actual multiplayer session with streamers, with the ultimate edit utilizing their real laughs, screams, betrayals, and reactions from the match.

WHY TOO HOT TO HOLD GETS CHAOTIC

Players select their skills earlier than every spherical.

Tricksters can grapple away, throw mud, depart banana peels and tripwires, blind Wardens with smoke and even fart in any individual’s face.

Wardens can teleport by way of portals, deploy rat traps, throw electrical grenades, use misleading illusions, and discover new methods to make carrying the Ember significantly extra nerve-racking.

The outsized, hand-painted environments add one other layer to the chase. Tiny gamers can run beneath furnishings, squeeze by way of hidden passages, take shortcuts between rooms, and use randomized map devices together with bounce pads, cooling vents, and heatsinks.

And as a result of all of it occurs with proximity voice chat, everybody will get to listen to precisely how badly issues are going.

TOO HOT TO HOLD FEATURES

 

• Online multiplayer for as much as 10 gamers
• 10-second hot-potato mechanic: go the Ember or blow up
• Asymmetric PvP: tiny Tricksters vs. armed Wardens
• Proximity voice chat
• Customizable lobbies, together with adjustable Warden rely
• Dozens of ridiculous skills, traps, devices, and motion instruments
• Giant hand-painted environments with a number of traversal routes
• Randomized bounce pads, cooling vents, heatsinks, and different map devices
• Multiple modes together with Hot Potato, Infestation, and Mole (Impostor)
• Unlockable head, again, physique, and leg cosmetics, plus titles
• No microtransactions!  Progression is unlocked by way of gameplay

ABOUT MYSTIVEDEV

MystiveDev is an impartial recreation growth studio based by two brothers, with a portfolio spanning seven video games.

The studio beforehand labored on Alan Sharp and Wipe: Toilet Plague underneath the Mystive Studios identify earlier than creating Mirror Forge, printed by DreadXP; Santa Fell within the Wrong House; Chasmal Fear, printed by Wandering Wizard / Snail Games USA; Saint of Chains; and now Too Hot To Hold.

MystiveDev’s growth journey was additionally featured in Beneath the Surface, a documentary collection commissioned by Wandering Wizard / Snail Games USA through the growth of Chasmal Fear.

Official Website: https://www.mystivedev.com/

Too Hot To Hold on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5199210/Too_Hot_To_Hold/

Watch the Announcement Trailer

https://youtu.be/n2zPJ7zubwc

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