Fireboy and Watergirl 4: Crystal Temple — Play Free Online

Fireboy and Watergirl 4: Crystal Temple is the fourth chapter of the series, and it is the one where the temple stops being a straight climb and starts folding in on itself. Portals carry your characters across the level, light beams have to be aimed, and the two halves of the map often depend on each other. It is a two-character puzzle platformer that plays in the browser with nothing to install.

The loop will be familiar if you have played the original: Fireboy and Watergirl start each level together, collect gems that match their element, and each must reach their own exit door. What changes here is how much you have to think before you move. Fans of the headline game on this site will find the same cooperative feel with more tricks layered on top.

How to play

Fireboy moves with the arrow keys. Watergirl moves with W, A and D. That split lets two people share one keyboard, or one person switch between both characters.

The hazards follow the usual colour rule. Fire passes safely through red lava, water passes safely through blue water, and the green goo is deadly to both. Touching the wrong liquid sends you back to the start of the level, so a single mistake by either character costs both of you the attempt.

Each character collects the gems of their own colour, and both need to stand at their own door to finish. Levers, buttons and pushable blocks open the way as in earlier chapters. This chapter adds portals that teleport a character to a linked exit, and crystals and light that you must arrange to trigger mechanisms.

Tips

• Scout the whole screen before moving. In this chapter the answer to a blocked path is often on the other side of a portal.
• Decide who goes first. A character standing on a button or holding a lever open is often the reason the other one can advance, so plan who stays behind.
• Do not jump into liquid to test whether it is safe. Check the colour first; green is never safe.
• If a puzzle gets tangled, restarting the level is quicker than trying to undo a bad block position.

Similar games on Fireboy and Watergirl

The original Fireboy and Watergirl is the simplest place to learn the rules, while Fireboy and Watergirl 3: Ice Temple adds slippery surfaces and Fireboy and Watergirl 2: Light Temple brings in light-based puzzles of its own. If you would like a different pair of partners, Duo Vikings and Up Together are also built around two characters working as a team, and Bad Ice Cream swaps puzzle-solving for maze-like collecting.

This one suits two players sharing a keyboard best, though a patient solo player can handle both characters by switching between them.