Game2014

Fireworks Simulator

Simulation

Developer Reality Twist GmbH

Fireworks fascination - All eyes are on the sky, the music starts, the first spectacular effects explode high in the air, open mouths, loud "Ooohs" and "Aaahs" from the crowd. Anyone who's ever witnessed live fireworks knows just how spellbinding a well put-together display can be. Attention, all firework fans! From the Steam store page

104 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works

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49
Mixed

50 positive · 53 negative
95% range 39–58%

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Steam's own rating
Mixed
155 of 270 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

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Reactions

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  • Steam user Steam user …6789Steam reviews · Nov 26, 2014 · 4 h played

    I really enjoyed this, i Do recommend playing this or checking it out if you really do love fireworks because i had a Blast messing around and it passes the time if you get bored or have nothing else to do, But i do feel limited and wish there could be more stuff to it instead of having a rinse and repeat feeling, But i still enjoyed it when the Fireworks go off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLuZ8wo99WI

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  • Steam user Steam user …8871Steam reviews · Dec 19, 2014 · 72 h played

    It took me forever to set up my show and it still wasn't synced properly but that's ok. I love, love, love fireworks and this program is great. Any fan of fireworks will love this. Once you get the hang of it, it's easy to work with. PROS Easy to use drag and drop feature Graphics and water reflections Different angle camera POVs Custom Fireworks creating Your own music import CONS Invisible fireworks Limited type of firework colors/sets Limited areas/scenery to create your show in Annoying…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1000Steam reviews · Nov 11, 2015 · 1 h played

    The dev's havn't updated, posted information and changed the gameplay in anyway since release. The base game has 2 maps, and about 35 different effects nothings been updated. Was fun for my play time but got stale afterwards.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2089Steam reviews · Jan 22, 2015 · 1 h played

    For some reason I rushed into buying this game simply because I've always wanted a fireworks simulator, and this looked really good from the screenshots and videos. But unfortunately it's just not as good as it makes it out to be. On the simple side, there are overused sounds, quite a limited set of fireworks and it's just simply overall quite a poor design for a simulator - it's more of a worktop or, do I call it a sandbox? On the technical side, it's even worse sadly, it takes up far much…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1475Steam reviews · Nov 26, 2014 · 4 h played

    This is a great simulator, and im not an overall fan of simulator type "games". Anyone with even the slightest interest/buzz of fireworks or pyrotechnics shows (IE:- Rock band setups etc) will find this great, its very entertaining. Can upload your own music tracks too to use. For the price its ace.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9811Steam reviews · Jan 1, 2017 · 6 h played

    Overall: 3,5/10 Positive sides: + Realistic physics of fireworks + Breathtaking views + Good way to relax in short time + You can create your own fireworks and upload your music Negative sides: - Saved games are empty after restarting game - Problems when placing fireworks - Only 2 locations - Lack of possibility to do show without music - No Workshop - Huge amount of different BUGS - It does not offer many modes - Game seems unfinished

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  • Steam user Steam user …1957Steam reviews · Nov 27, 2014 · 1 h played

    Overall great game if you WANT to create your own firework simulation in sync with music. Minor issues that could be fixed/improved: There should be mouse wheel scrolling in sequence editor, The firework when selected in placement should indicate which one you have selected, When playing the simulation you should be allowed to skip to a section you want to see, When creating a firework, it should allow you to clear the firework placed instead of clearing the whole rack, If the above were…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6874Steam reviews · Nov 26, 2014

    It's a great game (and majestic at that), but the game just feels like it's missing something...

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  • Steam user Steam user …3104Steam reviews · Nov 27, 2014 · 6 h played

    Clunky interface still makes for some fun once you get past it. http://youtu.be/GKV482CSFSc

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  • Steam user Steam user …7331Steam reviews · Dec 31, 2022

    For a game that should be very simple and fun ...it is way to complicated ! ..it is not worthy ! after you place your fireworks they dont even ignite as you want and in the order you want or don't even ignite at all ...as i said the game is far to complicated for something that in real life is a piece of cake...if you want something similar worthy just check the steam store there are other games more worthy and more fun without so much complications !

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  • Steam user Steam user …6474Steam reviews · Nov 28, 2014 · 3 h played

    I don't normally write reviews on Steam games, but this game, really deserves it. Wow, what can I say? Fireworks Simulator is brand new into the market released only two days ago and come to think about it I'm sure your'e all thinking "well here's ANOTHER simulator game..." But let me stop you there, Fireworks Simulator is unlike anything I have ever played on Steam before and in a good way. Welcome to this crazy, psychedelic world of bright lights and explosions. I booted this up to try it…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6702Steam reviews · Dec 27, 2015

    Uh... Well... It's a fireworks simulator alright...

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  • Steam user Steam user …3384Steam reviews · Nov 28, 2014 · 4 h played

    If you like fireworks buy it!

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  • Steam user Steam user …8455Steam reviews · Jan 20, 2015 · 1 h played

    This game is 92% legit and 8% fun What more to ask than setting up your own display of fireworks. Perfect game for kids with OCD they can make things perfect to their standards.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1592Steam reviews · Jul 4, 2019 · 1 h played

    Sorry, it WAS promising but devs dropped it. I don't know if it is worth of 2€ even on sale, maybe. Great idea, but really feel like early access that need some work.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5807Steam reviews · Feb 26, 2015 · 9 h played

    This is a great simulator. It has lots of shells to work with. The display graphics are great if you have a 2Gb video card or better. The only limitations are as follow: You can't use artists mp3 as background music then post it to certain social media due to copyright laws and You only have two locations for launching fireworks. You launch from either bardges or a golf course. If you forget and create a display with an artists music some social media will remove it and warn you about breaking…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1569Steam reviews · Nov 26, 2014 · 1 h played

    This is as Close to Pyrtecnics as you can get and not get power burns. I am able to make shows that look as good as one's I have seen on TV. I vote buy it alot while it is on sale.!!!!

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  • Steam user Steam user …7541Steam reviews · Jul 29, 2022

    Normally I'd leave something I got on Steam installed since I have the storage space to do so, but this is the quickest I've uninstalled. I'm not upset since I only spend about a dollar on it through Humble, but if I paid even a quarter of the asking price, I would have went through fhe process to get my very first Steam refund.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3231Steam reviews · Jan 23, 2017

    After mere minutes of playing this game, I feel that it in all honesty cannot be classified as a game. The term "masterpiece" comes to mind. I immediately closed this"masterpiece" in fears that I would become blinded with the sheer brilliance of this title. To the developers of this exquisite title I feel that I can only say one thing, congratulations. I received this game from a friend as what he classified as a "joke". The next day I saw him I hugged him and thanked him with tears in my eyes…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2253Steam reviews · Feb 28, 2015 · 1 h played

    Great potential. Effects are beautifull. But there is a lot of settings that is missing that would have improved the game a lot. It is hard and unfriendly to use. The possibility of starting the "play" anywhere would let creator testing some effects instead of restarting the video everytime we need to see how it goes. At les in the sequencer, instead of the pic of the place you are shooting, put a simulation of your show. Having the possibility to call effects directly in the sequencer…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6984Steam reviews · Aug 7, 2022

    The level of customization for the timing of the fireworks, the terrible UI, and the horrendous design of moving in place fireworks were all it took for me to immediately be put off by this game. Maybe it's entirely possible if I invested a ton more time into nitty gritty things that I didn't see at the start I could like it, but the simple fact is I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone. I wish there was a great option on the market where the game just gave us hey, here are some firework…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4595Steam reviews · Jul 5, 2021 · 1 h played

    I know what you're all thinking... not even an hour of play and he's leaving a review? Yeah well Listen, my children, and you shall hear. Firstly. There are only 2 maps. Cologne and Olympiapark. So location is limited. Only 2 soundtracks. (although you can upload additional ones.) Fireworks are available by height and the sequencer takes some getting used to but leaning curve isn't that steep. You can pick it up quickly. Ultimately, this comes down to limited options. I really wish I…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9547Steam reviews · Jan 3, 2020 · 1 h played

    Disappointing. That's the only thing I can really say about it. It fails to deliver in every way. It's sloppily coded, poorly designed, difficult to figure out, extremely limited in variety of mortars & locations. Camera views are dictated - surroundings limiting. Like literally disappointing in every conceivable way. :( made me sad - because the trailer and promo shots looked so promising. *sigh*

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  • Steam user Steam user …4261Steam reviews · Sep 27, 2017

    WOW, SUPER IMPRESSIVE ! once i figure it out, it will be awesome, alot of fun, cool program!

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  • Steam user Steam user …1305Steam reviews · Jul 4, 2017 · 1 h played

    Game has so many issues and it seems the devs have no plans to fix the bugs and such. Refund requested. Don't bother with this trash.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8881Steam reviews · Jun 13, 2015

    This game seemed great at first, the menu screens worked at a solid frame-rate. Right as soon as I pulled up one of the demo shows, the frame-rate dropped from 60fps to 10fps. Not a good sign when you turn down all of the game graphics and still get a poor frame-rate. I didn't let that get me down until the game caused my computer to blue screen. I haven't even started making a show and with the horrible frame-rate and potential crashing of your system, I would not recommend this game. Waste of…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8309Steam reviews · Jan 2, 2015 · 10 h played

    i love fireworks and i really enjoyed this game. If i save a custom effect it glitches once in a while but i don't have problems with that because the next time i press save it does work. What i really dislike is that it won't show the effect of the high mortarshells anymore. I tried reïnstalling 3 times but that still doesn't work. You can see the shell going off because of the glow on the landscape. I tried different resolutions and qualitysettings. (ps my PC runs ARMA3 on ultra settings so…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6718Steam reviews · Dec 31, 2014 · 8 h played

    This can end up a black hole where all your time and those missing socks from the dryer ends up. Once you figure out the sequencer and fiddle with making custom fireworks it can be a lot of fun making displays for your own music. I do wish the Devs would add some tools to help with symmetry. Also a way to fill a firework with one type of effect rather than pulling the same one down 95 times.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3932Steam reviews · Dec 31, 2015 · 3 h played

    The game is very buggy - in particular, the sequence editor. It is very clunky and slow to move lots of fireworks / effects etc - even on a very beefy pc which has an i7, 16GB ram, SSD disk and dedicated GFX card.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9407Steam reviews · Dec 19, 2014 · 11 h played

    Great sim however the save function is still not working after game restart and my version states 2.15?

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  • Steam user Steam user …3571Steam reviews · Dec 18, 2014

    It need Salut's

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  • Steam user Steam user …4128Steam reviews · Dec 17, 2014 · 1 h played

    First Impressions: The sequencer reminded me of "Roller Coaster Tycoon 3" a bit in that you can drop various fireworks onto a timeline. "Fireworks Simulator" takes that a step further and adds the ability to adjust music and camera angles. I would have really liked a freeform camera that let you zoom around to any position you wanted...instead you're limited to about six preset angles. It's a solid simulator and it works once you figure it out, but I didn't see a whole lot of content. For…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0190Steam reviews · Dec 3, 2014 · 2 h played

    It's exactly what it says. If you just want to toy around with Fireworks and timing / music, its a nice time waster. If you haven't already guessed, its not a "game" like that old launch PS2 title. It's a building sim.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5505Steam reviews · Nov 27, 2014 · 10 h played

    The save issue has been fixed! Enjoy this great simulation game and let's start create a beautiful Fireworks!! I really like this simulator game, it's fun, but currently the save system in the game is bugged! You might lost your progress just like how I lost my 5 hours progress. I hope they get it fixed soon, until then play at your own risk. Anyway, here's my piece http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=347511023

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  • Steam user Steam user …7508Steam reviews · Sep 10, 2021 · 1 h played

    Well i seems like the developer just give a ♥♥♥♥ about theire game/sim. No new updates, no more information or enything. These kinde of devs starts pissing me off......... making a game, dont listen to the community, only thing they have in minde is MONEY. And i beginning to get realy tired of steam puking and sucking toes to make more money on ♥♥♥♥♥♥ games and devs. Game was cool until all the bugs that accoure (that are not getting fixed). Plenty of people who have bougt the game have been…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6540Steam reviews · Feb 11, 2020 · 23 h played

    Love this Sim but the creater needs to great more content!!!!

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  • Steam user Steam user …6678Steam reviews · Jan 26, 2020 · 17 h played

    Please make more firework effects like bigger mortiers and ground specials. Right?

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  • Steam user Steam user …2203Steam reviews · Jan 5, 2020 · 3 h played

    This games have some issue. For save system. But overall, i love this games. I can create firework show with music.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1810Steam reviews · Aug 21, 2017 · 1 h played

    The simulator would be a great experience if it did not tank once you started your show.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4519Steam reviews · Dec 31, 2016

    Dont get me wrong... i love fireworks. But this game is so boring. i wanted to create a display without music and sometimes with music but nope... you can only create a display with music. its cool being able to create your own firework although it has a horrible UI.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4221Steam reviews · Jun 26, 2016

    Do not buy this I press ignite on the fire works and they dont even do anything bad game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3559Steam reviews · May 22, 2016

    It's not as fun as it looked. I was hoping there would be challenges or things to unlock, but there isn't. The only thing you do in the game is make fireworks displays over and over, nothing else. I'm glad I bought it on sale.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4778Steam reviews · Jun 25, 2015

    Really bad dont waste money, half the features don't work

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  • Steam user Steam user …5384Steam reviews · May 24, 2015

    Neat game but kind of annoying you cant really view your display as a whole without playing it. Wish it wasnt such a pain to try and see whats happening. Also it would be nice to have more options for music though you can import your own so its not so bad. Not much in the way of content as well however I would still recommend it if you like making a fireworks display and just clicking mindless like on a game for a few hours.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9559Steam reviews · Apr 22, 2015 · 1 h played

    Weres some more updates its been way to long. Another waste of money!

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  • Steam user Steam user …3898Steam reviews · Dec 23, 2014 · 13 h played

    Love it hands down it takes a few minutes to get the hang of it but that’s like anything new. But I do have to say this game needs work it’s a bit of a bug fest at the moment think Starship Troopers although it is still very playable. But it is heading in the right direction, though bugs make it interesting to say the least. "Hail to the king" and "Come get some" to say the most, Get it on sale if you can but if not get it anyway. When you live in a country with out fireworks this is the next…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8038Steam reviews · Dec 20, 2014 · 1 h played

    Waste of money, The whole consept and how its set up makes it Incredibly hard to grasp. The menus are poorly designed, the User interface is confusing and quite frankly look like they were designed in 5 minutes by a 13 year old on his first computing project. I really looked forward to this game but was a total let down. TOTAL WASTE OF MY MONEY!

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  • Steam user Steam user …4485Steam reviews · Dec 11, 2014 · 3 h played

    Great game reminds me of Fireworks Construction Kit by BorderBund in the 80's for Amiga 500 ....this is the first game like that game to be made in years. If you like fireworks, and wanted to create your own fireworks show, this game is a must buy.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8759Steam reviews · Nov 29, 2014 · 9 h played

    i like this game its a good bit of fun, although i think we need bigger fireworks !! and longer display time. and the big ones you always have a very long delay 2 seconds plus between the effect and the the bang. because there always firther away. But all in all this is great fun and its different !!

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  • Steam user Steam user …0522Steam reviews · Jul 14, 2025 · 9 h played

    Soo here's my rating of this game. I can recommend this game to others, but with a caveat if their computer can't handle high and ultra graphics on other games. Here's pros and cons of this game, do what you will with this information: -PROS- * It functions; * Fireworks look nice; * Sequencer is not too hard to understand; * Curating and creating fireworks show is pretty fun and satisfying; And here's where my good words basically run out... Beware, naked truth and strong criticism ahead.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1321Steam reviews · Nov 17, 2024 · 1 h played

    So, I'm a qualified pyrotechnic with the BPA and thought 'cool a simulation game about my second job'. It was nice to see the cakes and shells that look like actually display quality fireworks. The set up the timing are just like the fire one system that I have used for larger displays. There is a lot of realism and think the developers did a good job with that. What would be nice to see if quest and job requests within the game and make some of the UI more user friendly. I would only…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1986Steam reviews · Jul 31, 2022 · 5 h played

    It is fun but has some major issues and would be very angry if I had paid full price. The biggest issue is the fact that after spending hours creating something all the fireworks I has placed simply disappeared so all the work I had done placing them and sequencing the fire work display was gone. (I had created saved several versions but all of them suffered the same fate.) The other niggle was when you place a firework on the barge you can't simply click on it to see what it is. If you go to…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0275Steam reviews · Jul 29, 2022

    I bought this baked thinking it was Fireworks Mania lol

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  • Steam user Steam user …2396Steam reviews · Jul 28, 2022

    I literally do not even understand how this is a game. I played for about 5 mins, if that, and 3 of those minutes was trying to get it to load. Then a minute was spent putting fireworks down and figuring out why they weren't going off, and then I finally managed to get some fireworks to go off, and that was literally the game. A complete and utter waste of money and time.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9291Steam reviews · Feb 7, 2022 · 3 h played

    I really hate the optimization issues in this game, but the creation of fireworks shows are fire.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3310Steam reviews · Jul 4, 2021 · 1 h played

    Bugs over bugs... Parts of the GUI being stuck so you have to reopen the game Sometimes saving does not save... I expected more... dissapointed..

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  • Steam user Steam user …4482Steam reviews · Mar 20, 2021 · 7 h played

    Fun and addicting, I would like to be able import backgrounds or have more added. Improved/additional camera angles with a zoom in/out feature would be great along with a snap to grid feature while placing the launchers.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1944Steam reviews · Mar 20, 2021 · 4 h played

    OK? IT A OK NOT A PERFECTO BUT GOOD

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  • Steam user Steam user …6595Steam reviews · Jan 2, 2021 · 11 h played

    Keeps Crashing, doesnt save.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7754Steam reviews · Feb 17, 2019 · 2 h played

    It took me forever to set up my show and it still wasn't synced properly but that's ok. I love, love, love fireworks and this program is great. Any fan of fireworks will love this. Once you get the hang of it, it's easy to work with.

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