Heat Signature
Worth it · Roguelike · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7475% off
- Cost per hour
- $1.03/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 7,445
- Critics
- 79 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 14.5h
- To 100%
- 36h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 70
Price and sales
- Sales
- 51 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 December 2020
- Sale every
- 47d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10 now
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to 4% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
51 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FTL: Faster Than Light ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Void Bastards ($29.99, scores 64).
More about Heat Signature
Critics scored it 79. Players sit 16 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
1 of the 447 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 366 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 14.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 36, 2.5 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I enjoyed this game with the time ive put into it so far. Its like a little arcady hotline miami but imsim type game. Easy to pick up and and play, and if you like giving yourself a challenge from time to time you can make the game harder by limiting what you use, if you only use the best stuff though its pretty easy
1 more review, not recommended
An unforgiving, cheapshotting mess of a game. I cannot believe this game was made by the same person that made Gunpoint. I wouldn't even buy this on sale, if I knew then what I know now. Game would have been pretty decent if it weren't a roguelike that wiped every bit of your progress every time the game decided to just one-shot you, but it is, for some stupid reason. It didn't need to be a roguelike. At all. Every...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD 5000 or better (GeForce and Radeon tend to be better), 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Heat Signature scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/268130/heat-signatureReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.