Games like Heat Signature

The closest matches to Heat Signature: FTL: Faster Than Light, CRYPTARK, Invisible, Inc., Crying Suns, and Void Bastards. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Heat Signature is your kind of game, the closest matches are FTL: Faster Than Light, CRYPTARK and Invisible, Inc. — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as contemplative, funny and intense, and single out its crew legacy sharing and gadget based combat. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

Heat Signature is a space-set roguelike action-strategy hybrid from Suspicious Developments that tasks players with infiltrating procedurally generated ships using stealth, hacking, or gadget-based combat. Missions unfold in real-time with pause, letting players teleport between rooms, improvise traps, and customize their loadout before each run. Players describe the experience as intense yet whimsical, with crew legacy items carrying across playthroughs to gradually expand options across runs. The game supports online co-op for shared missions, though its challenging difficulty and long campaign favor short-burst sessions. Available since 2017 at $14.99, it holds a 95% positive rating from over 6,100 Steam reviews.

About Heat Signature: 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.