Released Sep 21, 2017 $14.99 Very Positive Counts toward your Steam games

Heat Signature

By Suspicious Developments

Space Stealth Indie Top-Down Roguelike Action Strategy Sci-fi Procedural GenerationReal-Time with PauseRogueliteSingleplayer

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Reviews 6,866 Very Positive

Players yesterday 21 at the busiest moment

Owners 500K–1M estimated

Heat Signature is a game tagged Space, Stealth and Indie by Suspicious Developments, released Sep 21, 2017. It has 6,866 Steam reviews (Very Positive). It has an estimated 500K–1M owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, Captain Forever Remix and Not The Robots.

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.

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Distant Star: Revenant Fleet 79% match · Space, Indie, Top-Down
Captain Forever Remix 69% match · Space, Indie, Top-Down
Not The Robots 68% match · Stealth, Indie, Roguelike
FTL: Faster Than Light 68% match · Space, Indie, Top-Down
Battlevoid: Harbinger 66% match · Space, Indie, Roguelike
Space Pirates and Zombies 65% match · Space, Indie, Top-Down
Steam Marines 63% match · Space, Indie, Roguelike
Wings of Redemption 63% match · Indie, Top-Down, Roguelike
Perihelion: Rogue Orbit 62% match · Space, Indie, Top-Down
Shadowlift: Zero Trace 62% match · Stealth, Indie, Top-Down

Steam data

Everything Steam lists for Heat Signature · record updated 7 hours ago

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Overview

App ID268130

Release dateSep 21, 2017Early Access Jan 1, 1970

Last change number37432709

Last record update7 hours ago

App type: Game
Developer: Suspicious Developments
Publisher: Suspicious Developments
Steam profile: Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Franchise: The Defenestration Trilogy
Metacritic: 79
Website: spaceships.cool
Links: Discord

Language	Interface	Full audio	Subtitles
English	Yes		Yes

Windows

Steam Deck: Unsupported
Controller: Full support

Single-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily SharingFull controller support

Patches

Build	Branch	Updated
6124596	public	Jan 27, 2021
4325219	previousversion	Jan 27, 2021
6124596	nextversion	Jan 22, 2021
2519836	prebirthday	Oct 6, 2018

Packages & DLC

ID	Name	Games	Price (US)
35481	Heat Signature	1	$14.99
205473	Heat Signature Supporter's Edition	1	$29.99
3877 Bundle	The Suspicious Developments Games Collection	3	$29.72

ID	Name	Price (US)
710350	Not on the store yet	—

Depots

ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
228982	— shared from 228980	Windows	—	—	—
228990	— shared from 228980	Windows	—	—	—
268131	—	Windows	190.2 MB	144.7 MB	4332629712487444634
710350	— DLC 710350	Windows	2.89 GB	2.89 GB	2596821283755037160

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	6124596	Jan 27, 2021	Open
previousversion Previous major patch	4325219	Jan 27, 2021	Open
nextversion Test the next patch	6124596	Jan 22, 2021	Open
prebirthday Play without the Space Birthday Update	2519836	Oct 6, 2018	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Heat Signature

Executable	Arguments	Systems	Description
Heat_Signature.exe		Windows	Launch
Extras Launcher.exe		Windows	Supporter Edition Extras
Heat_Signature.exe	-compatibility	Windows	Heat Signature (Compatibility Mode)