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Heat Signature

Suspicious Developments · Sep 21, 2017

PC

Rating pending

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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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Critic 7.8 (7 critics) · Gamer 9.4

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  • Game Informer

    Kyle Hilliard · Sep 27, 2017

    8.5
    Heat Signature’s strength lies in its ability to make you think fast when you have all the time in the world. On more than one occasion, I sat with the action paused while a countdown in the single digits spelled doom for me, and I was able to use my collection of gadgets to teleport, fight, and hack my way to a position where I could disable the alarm. Of course, it was just as often that I stumbled and was immediately shot and dumped into space by the bad guys.
  • USGamer

    Mike Williams · Sep 26, 2017

    7.0
    Heat Signature looks like Hotline Miami to the untrained eye, but this is a game that rewards planning more than violence at a breakneck pace. Sneak your way onto procedural-generated ships and use a wide variety of gear to maim, steal, swap, teleport, decrypt, and simply break your targets. Heat Signature provides some amazing watercooler moments, but eventually players will hit a pretty high difficulty wall and the game punishes failure hard. Until then, there's a unique stealth action title to be found here.
  • Polygon

    Noah Caldwell-Gervais · Sep 22, 2017

    7.5
    Heat Signature is one of the tightest indie action games I've played, packing a maximum amount of excitement into a minimum amount of time and space. My first few hours with the game were genuinely wonderful, filled with rapid-fire moments of delight and triumph. But when I hit my personal skill ceiling, I could do no more than repeatedly bang my head against it.
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  • IGN

    Dan Stapleton · Sep 21, 2017

    8.0
    With a set of thieving and assassination tools that beg to be used creatively, Heat Signature’s puzzle-like missions are great for jumping into for a few goes at a time to try something just crazy enough to work. That’s when the fun stuff happens.
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  • PC Gamer

    Steven Messner · Sep 21, 2017

    8.5
    By making excellent use of its procedurally generated world and wacky gadgets, Heat Signature is a mission worth taking.
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  • PCGamesN

    Kirk Mckeand · Sep 21, 2017

    7.0
    Unfortunately, Heat Signature’s structure lets it down somewhat. It becomes a repetitive grind, broken up by the occasional amazing moment. The procedural generation makes it feel special, randomly creating an environment for these unique anecdotes, but it is a double-edged sword as there are a multitude of uneventful missions in-between. Still, it all feels worth it for those moments when there are a few seconds left on the clock and you are forced to take desperate action.
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