Heat Signature

Release Date: 2017-09-21

Developer: Suspicious Developments

Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie, Strategy

Price: 10.99

Supporters EditionThe Supporters Edition of Heat Signature comes with a bunch of fun extras:Play through Heat Signatures development with 8 early prototypes from its 3.5 year development.Watch 9 developer commentary videos showing and explaining its evolution: from drilling through hulls to liberating empires. (Total: 70 minutes)Own the full soundtrack in 320kbps MP3 format. (19 tracks 83 minutes)About the GameBreak into spaceships!Fly your pod up to any spaceship in the galaxy and dock with its airlock to sneak inside. From there youve got to sneak up on the crew outshoot them in slowmo gunfights or outthink them with clever gadgets. Take missions to steal loot assassinate VIPs or rescue friends.Take your time!Get out of impossible situations by pausing at any time and taking as long as you need to figure out a clever plan. You have a wide range of gadgets with clever uses and you can switch aim and fire them with no time pressure at all letting you pull off ridiculously cool tricks without needing twitch skills.Liberate the galaxy!All your missions get you closer to liberating new space stations from the empires that control them and this unlocks new gadgets to buy in your shops and special challenge characters to play.Lots more features!Im not making GIFs for all these!Im not made of GIFs!Im not some kind of GIF-golem!Emergent gameplay!Use gadgets like teleporters stealth shields and subverters to invent your own solutions to tricky situations.Galactic zoom!Zoom smoothly from a view of the whole galaxy down to your character sneaking up on guards inside the spaceship youre boarding.Choose your difficulty!You choose each mission ranging from trivially easy to nightmarishly hard. Theres also a practice mode where you can try items and tactics with no consequences and instant-restart.Randomly generated missions!Each one picks a random combination of guard kit ship layout and complications like space battles.Each life is a new character!Choose between randomly generated characters with different starting kit and when you die play as someone new in the same galaxy.Personal missions!Every character has one grand heist to work towards: rescue their brother steal their gun back get revenge on their partners killer.Modular destruction!Blow up any part of a ship with breach grenades or fuel barrels. Rip a ship in half. Get sucked into space by the vacuum.Rescue your friends characters!If someone on your friends list gets their character captured and they arent able to rescue them maybe you can! Youll sometimes get a character whose personal goal is to rescue a friends character. If you manage it you unlock your friends character to play as! They dont get it back. They had their chance. Its yours now.Find your friends items!When you retire an accomplished character you can choose one item to pass on. You get to name it and both your Steam friends and your own future characters have a chance to find these as loot. Equally youll come across items your friends have named.What Heat Signature is not:We dont want you to buy Heat Signature if its not for you. Wed always rather have a happy non-customer than an unhappy customer. So heres what it isnt:-Its not story-driven: theres a backstory to this place and a few conversations with characters but theres not a story that develops as you play. Its much more about the stories you generate by playing about how you got out of impossible situation X or pulled off crazy stunt Y.There arent other careers: You cant mine asteroids. You cant build ships. You cant recruit a crew. Youre an infiltrator you break into spaceships for a living its all about that.There are no planets: The whole game takes place in this nebula full of space stations. You can dock at any friendly station and board any hostile ship but its not a space exploration game.Its not multiplayer: The friends features mentioned above are fun but theyre just sharing content its not multiplayer at all and youre never in the same world together.There are cool games about all those things. This is a cool game about something else!