We've been tracking Heat Signature, the next game from Gunpoint creator Tom Francis, for a few years. Soon enough, you'll be sneaking your way onto ships, attempting to take out whole crews, dying, and doing it all again with a fresh would-be thief. The game launches for PC next Thursday, September 21.
This will be one of those games about getting yourself in (and hopefully back out of) chaotic jams. Aside from having certain game design expectations following Gunpoint, these bullet points paint a picture:
- Emergent gameplay: use gadgets like teleporters, stealth shields and subverters to invent your own solutions to tricky situations.
- No time pressure: you can pause any time and take as long as you need to plan, aim shots, and figure out your next move.
- Randomly generated missions: each one picks a random combination of guard kit, ship layout, and complications like space battles.
- Personal missions: every character has one grand heist to work towards: rescue their brother, steal their gun back, get revenge on their partner's killer.
- Full modular destruction of every spaceship: shoot a fuel barrel to blow up the room and be flung into space by the vacuum. Rip ships in half, destroy secure rooms to form new entrances to dock at.
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