HeatStroke
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Length
- 3.3h
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 224 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
HeatStroke is a simulation game tasking you to transcribe an unhinged short story while driving down a seemingly endless desert road.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
12 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is cheaper than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Keep Driving ($12.59, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Titan Chaser ($4.99, scores 62).
What players say
i took an edible and played this game and had a spiritual experience that i will have to divulge in a big video about everything i played this year. cruel and evil and amazing, unlike anything else i've experienced to the point that i want to play it again even if i could read the book as a pdf. easily top five games i've played this year. there are a bunch of typos in the script with regards to spacing but in some...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
this is horrible and i must return to finish it. my shoulder hurts and its been a day. i'm tempted to launch it again but those first thirty minutes were so rough. as it keeps going it gets more draining, eventually i found myself crying as i typed. there is a fine line between masochism and self-harm. i will come back to this. i will read the rest of the story. i need to know how it ends. ok i came back to it and i...
For anyone unaware of what this game is you're playing desert bus but you additionally have to type an entire novel out while doing so, my playthrough with 0 pauses took around 3 hours 46 minutes. Do not under any sane circumstances, attempt to finish this game it is bluntly: borderline torture. i do think that's the entire point of the game, it very much echoes the stories descent into despair and numbness; the...
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Cite this score
HeatStroke scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2022090/heatstrokeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.