Heat
Skip · RPG · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 49% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GPU GeForce 970 GTX (4GB VRAM), AMD RX560 (4GB VRAM), 70 GB of storage. Windows only.
Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was August 2022. 71 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Reign Of Kings ($9.99, scores 2) and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw ($29.99, scores 8) both outscore it.
14 of the 794 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 468 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 14 percent of the 773 reviews written there were positive, against 49 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Heat scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/656240/heatThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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