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Flee your fear and carve your story. Blaze a trail across mythic American highways, where choices twist your tale and danger’s always in the rearview mirror. With roguelike routes, limited resources, and breakneck chases, this isn’t just a drive—it’s your legend in the making.

Heading Out is a visual novel, stylized and rogue-like game developed by Serious Sim and Crunching Koalas and published by Crunching Koalas.
Released on May 07th 2024 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Spanish - Spain and Portuguese - Portugal.

It has received 572 reviews of which 444 were positive and 128 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 7.36€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Heading Out into these genres:

Visual Novel Stylized Rogue-like Rogue-lite Choices Matter Narrative Choose Your Own Adventure Comic Book Interactive Fiction Nonlinear Resource Management Dynamic Narration Driving Movie Racing Indie Adventure Singleplayer Arcade Strategy

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i3-10320 or AMD Ryzen 3 3100
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 560
  • Storage: 30 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2026
Great concept and art style, driving with demons and style. I love the fourth wall breaking meta kind of aspect it has. Makes you think about and reflect on yourself's past. Soundtrack also is very good to awesome and well suited for easy listening outside the game.'Same old road' on the soundtrack hits me hard emotionally (thank you father for finally telling me how it was). This whole experience has a full additional level that's waiting to be discovered below the obvious at first sight. The thing is though: right now it's not enjoyable on Deck. That's not the developer's fault per se though. Let me explain. It's one of those games that detect whether it's running on a Deck. They disable graphics settings then, like Skyrim also does for example. The problem with this practice now is that Deck isn't a closed system like other handhelds are. Moreover, Valve effed up with last stable 3.7.8, making performance worse big time. They're only slowly and partially recovering from that with latest beta 3.7.9. This game is especially suffering from that because it's CPU and GPU heavy. I don't know for sure, but I suspect Valve is endorsing that no graphics settings practice with developers. It just doesn't work the way they'd like it to, and that's their own fault. Fortunately, there's a workaround for that. Just add SteamDeck=0 %command% exactly like that in Steam's startup settings for command line options for the game. Graphics settings are unlocked then, even though they're not exactly comprehensive. People have played it fine at 60FPS on medium preset in the past. Doesn't work with current SteamOS anymore. From my tests I'd suggest 30FPS on medium preset with vsync and SMAA Low, with GE-Proton10-4 as compatibility layer. Still stutters occasionally, especially at the beginning of a new game, but gets better when driving for a while. Let's hope Valve gets their act together again fast.
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Nov. 2025
The replay-ability is questionable due to the rogue-like gameplay with a good but mandatory story. (And yet, two days later thinking on it; i re-downloaded it.) but all things considered I enjoyed this experience. If they ever get around to making a sequel with some updated content (mostly cars, visuals, custom music and maybe game modes), I'll be playing it and imagining it'll keep me hooked for quite some time. gives me heavy Queens of the stone age "go with the flow" music video vibes
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Aug. 2025
I purchased this game when it first released, despite me posting this review WAY later. But I just have to say that it was totally worth it! Would 100% reccomend for anyone, even if you aren't all that into driving games, as the entire game doesn't revolve around just driving, but the stories and the people you face during the journey. I would say the full price might be a little too much for some people (I personally think the game was worth it), but you should definitely get this game if it's on a sale. One thing I want to criticize is the way that the entire story gets revealed only on the last chapter, leaving the other chapters as mere filler with little to no story progression. Otherwise, I find this game to be very enjoyable, whether if you like driving fast on country roads, engaging in police chases or high speed races while avoiding trafic to the best of your abilities, or the management of resources during the interstate travel of the Jackalope, or just what each radio host has to say about your adventures and choices.
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July 2025
Great game - story was interesting, and a very unique way of presentation. I thought that the driving would be the crutch and the storytelling would be a drag - but it was quite the contrary. In fact, I found myself looking forward more for the story than the driving, especially towards the end when I was dealing with 3-4 police chases in every state. The soundtrack is an absolute banger and the radio hosts have such personality - my only real issue with the game is the sun glare while driving - it's a pain in the butt. Despite this, still a solid game and worth every penny, even if it's not on sale.
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May 2025
An arcade-y racer with a nice story and beautiful presentation. The way the game uses color in an otherwise black and white road is fantastic and the design philosophy is something I'm genuinely left in awe by.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Heading Out is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Heading Out is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Heading Out received 444 positive votes out of a total of 572 achieving a rating of 7.35.
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Heading Out was developed by Serious Sim and Crunching Koalas and published by Crunching Koalas.

Heading Out is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Heading Out is not playable on MacOS.

Heading Out is not playable on Linux.

Heading Out is a single-player game.

Heading Out does not currently offer any DLC.

Heading Out does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Heading Out does not support Steam Remote Play.

Heading Out is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Heading Out.

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