Heat Signature (2017)

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PC (Microsoft Windows)

3.66 from 58 ratings

685 members have it in their collection · 6 playing now · 345 backlogged · 34 wish listed

How long? · with extras 14h (from 1 logged playthrough)

Fly your tiny defenceless pod up to larger ships, dock with their airlock, and sneak inside. Once you're in, you creep through their corridors, ambushing guards, hiding bodies, stealing new weapons, blowing them up from the inside, or hijacking their turrets and even the whole ship.
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Release dates

  • Sep 21, 2017 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
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Rating distribution

5 stars
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3 stars
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yyninja

Status yyninja Sep 13, 2021

Heat Signature has many great ideas but the game is not my cup of tea. The story AFAIK consists of randomly generated missions where successfully completing them increases the liberation meter of that system. There are about two dozen systems to liberate. This is the kind of game you would play while listening to a podcast.

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Heat Signature has many great ideas but the game is not my cup of tea. The story AFAIK consists of randomly generated missions where successfully completing them increases the liberation meter of that system. There are about two dozen systems to liberate. This is the kind of game you would play while listening to a podcast.

There are some really cool space pirate/rebel vibes where you are infiltrating and eventually commandeering ships. There are several exciting moments like blowing up part of the ship to ferry away foes into space. Very pause heavy, in fact the game encourages you to pause often. Feels more like playing a turned based game than an action game. I didn't play more than an hour of this but think the game is well worth it if you like narrative light games with a lot of replay value.

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