Heat Signature

Break into spaceships!

Fly your pod up to any spaceship in the galaxy and dock with its airlock to sneak inside. From there, you've 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.

Key Features

Emergent gameplay with gadgets like teleporters, stealth shields and subverters to invent your own solutions. Zoom smoothly from a view of the whole galaxy down to your character sneaking up on guards inside the spaceship you're boarding. Choose your difficulty from trivially easy to nightmarishly hard, with a practice mode for experimenting. Randomly generated missions with different guard kits, ship layouts, and complications. Each life is a new character with different starting kit. Every character has one grand heist to work towards. Blow up any part of a ship with breach grenades or fuel barrels. Rescue your friends' characters and find items they've named and passed on.

What Heat Signature is not

It's not story-driven - there's a backstory and conversations, but the stories come from your gameplay. There aren't other careers like mining or crew recruitment - you're an infiltrator breaking into spaceships. There are no planets - the whole game takes place in a nebula full of space stations. It's not multiplayer - friend features are just sharing content.