Heat Signature on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

Heat Signature is a space, stealth and indie game developed and published by Suspicious Developments.
Released on September 21st 2017 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 7,114 reviews of which 6,726 were positive and 388 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 12.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Heat Signature into these genres:

Space Stealth Indie Top-Down Rogue-like Action Strategy Sci-fi Procedural Generation Real-Time with Pause Rogue-lite Singleplayer Adventure 2D Perma Death Tactical Top-Down Shooter Open World Bullet Time Action Roguelike

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: 1.7GHz dual-core CPU
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD 5000 or better (GeForce and Radeon tend to be better)
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 400 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025

Heat signature is easily my favorite tactical stealth/action game. You can pause any moment and take as long as you want to come up with an elaborate plan. More often than not, you'll misstep and that's when the real fun begins. Luckily, you have a diverse set of tools to help you get out of the situation you just put yourself in so precariously, And the way the missions in the game are structured, you are gently nudged to try new approaches all the time. Or just when I think I finally found my favorite approach to any mission, I find myself in a pickle and try some disastrous idea out of desperation - and that idea becomes my favorite new trick. 10 / 10, nearly endless replayability, this game kept surprising me for about 50 hours and I'm still not sure I've seen it all. Bonus points if you can get your friends to play daily missions and compare your approaches - it's some of the best fun you can have.

Nov. 2024

I like it a lot. Solid strategy pause and play with enough tools to keep it interesting. That is until the tools are deleted on you from time to time. So ya, the only thing that has happened far too many times and as of this moment is the reason I'm hanging up my gloves on this title is that the game deletes equipment left in your ship when you sign off for the day, or even just sit at the bench for a moment in the character select bar, which i just did accidentally on a simple miss click and it toasted my best of the best gear on a character I had ready to retire but wanted to do a couple more glory missions with first. So it had been super disappointing when this happened with lesser gear, but man is this a basic error I will blame on the developers for, and here is why. The items left on the ship are already set for "stash later" they are on the station with you, just parked in your pod... and they really should be transported to the stash if either of these basic instances occurs. (signing out or sitting at the bar) It's really lame that this avoidable situation is what has led to this level of disappointment and putting the title aside. Anyways, I say BUY the game, but do so on a BIG SALE rather than full price or small discount since you might otherwise want to put in more hours without a flaw such as this, its really excellent aside from screwing you so hard its disheartening on just this one issue. Oh snap, just thought of a third instance, one time I bought a new ship/pod while I had gear on the previous pod and was surprised it didn't teleport to my stash since it was all set to return to stash, this was the first time it happened I think. Happy gaming errrybody

Aug. 2024

This game is astonishing beautiful in every aspect. I love it so much. The music, the art style, the game play. Honestly, I believe everyone should play this game. Even after 140 hours I still find myself discovering new things. That's what makes this game so fun. There are so many alternate play styles, which are encouraged by the game. If you go in blind the feeling of discovery when for example, you discover you can crash glitch traps, is like nothing else. And, this game quite literally has infinite replay ability. Even after completing every achievement (besides the ones that require friends), and 100%ing it twice, I still sit down every once in a while to just play a couple characters. The daily challenges are fun, the liberation missions are fun, everything is fun. The game is low-commitment and high skill cap. Once you get good enough you can beat even the hardest missions with starting gear. I strongly recommend this game.

June 2024

Heat Signature is a game like no other. The thinking man's Hotline Miami. A lot of reviewers will complain (rightfully) that it lacks replay value by roguelike standards, and it does, but this is the finest I have ever played and the dynamic underlying systems prove more than enough to discover. There's 5-10 hours to find all the tools and features, sure, but hundreds in seeing how they can interact. Heat Signature effectively juggles methodical planning and panicked improvising, and worming your way out of the impossible situations you get yourself into is thrilling every time.

May 2024

This is a tactical, bird's-eye-view shooter with excellent time controls. There is a curiously small set of tools, yet they all feel distinct and useful. Still, the inventory is too small to hold one of each, so choices must be made, which leads to some interesting play styles. Go in shielded and guns blazing? Invisible and cut everything up? Teleport around the ship avoiding all contact? Some novel combination? There's quite a bit of freedom. What's special about this game? I enjoyed fixing a SNAFU more often that executing a perfect mission. There's something about getting thrown out of an airlock, remote controlling my ship to pick me up, crashing back into my target, and winning the day. I don't think I've ever had more fun with a "round two" in any other game. The melee attacks are also wonderfully snappy. They also have this great, weighty "feel" to them. There's also something particularly satisfying about throwing people out of windows.

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12.99€

9.2

6,726

388

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Developer

Suspicious Developments

Publisher

Suspicious Developments

Release 21 Sep 2017

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