How to Play Slow Burn

Game guides · Updated 4 November 2026

Slow Burn is the one game on Spice Up where you do not have to steer. You pick where to start, and the app tells the evening as a story: a few minutes of talking, then a dare or two, then touch, and then, when you are both ready, the same again a notch hotter. Leave the night to us, and spend it on each other instead of on the phone.

How the story is told

Every level has three chapters, always in the same order:

• Talk: things said out loud. What you noticed, what you like, what you want
• Dare: something done in front of each other. A look held too long, a slow dance, something coming off
• Touch: the two of you in contact, from fingers in hair at Gentle to anything you both want at Wild

Each chapter opens with a line of story, then deals three to five cards. You take turns: one of you reads a card to the other and does what it says, then the next card is the other person's.

How a night goes

1. The first card is not a prompt. It asks you to get comfortable together: sit close, top up the drinks, lights down, phones on silent. Tap We're comfortable when you are
2. Talk, then Dare, then Touch. At the end of each chapter a slip above the button asks if you want to turn the page
3. After Touch it asks the bigger question: ready to take it up a notch? Yes starts again at Talk, one level hotter
4. When the last chapter is done the book closes with one line: now you take it from here. Enjoy

The four levels

• Gentle: clothed and unhurried, but unmistakably two people who want each other. Talking about sex lightly is fine here
• Playful: proper kisses, hands over clothes and on bare backs and legs, a thing or two coming off
• Spicy: undressing fully, hands and mouths on bare skin, and saying exactly what you want
• Wild: explicit and unfiltered. Anything done to the other person starts with asking, and only goes ahead if you both want it

You can start on any level with the heat strip at the top, and move it mid-story. The story jumps to that level and keeps its place in the chapter order.

Playing it as a group

Slow Burn is written for two people who are into each other, and a bigger group plays it in pairs. The first card speaks to everyone. Then each chapter goes to one pair who are into each other, named above the chapter's first card, and the next chapter goes to another pair. Everyone else gets the best seats.

Limits and comfort levels

Slow Burn reads the same Player settings as every other game. A card that touches a limit either of you set is never dealt to you, and a player who capped themselves at Playful is dealt Playful even when the strip says Wild. The safe word stays in the header all night, and it ends anything at any time.

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