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2017 PC 12.99 € 👍 95 % Overwhelmingly positive, 7,146 reviews on Steam

You dock a tiny pod onto enemy spaceships and infiltrate them with improvised plans to take out guards, steal loot, or hijack the whole vessel. It thrives on pausable top-down tactics and chaotic, emergent stories.

What defines Heat Signature:

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Challenging difficulty

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Void Bastards

83 %

2019 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 29.99 € 👍 86 % Very positive, 5,266 reviews on Steam Steam Deck playable

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

A comic-styled first-person shooter with a roguelike structure: you raid procedurally generated derelict ships, plan routes through the nebula and juggle scarce resources. The look is like a living comic book, with dry, dark humor.

Skin Deep

Pure single-player experience

A comedic immersive-sim shooter where you infiltrate pirate-infested starships as a shoeless insurance agent, using stealth, sabotage and creative tricks. Its interlocking systems reward chaotic experimentation.

Darwinia

Distinctive, stylised art style

A charming real-time strategy game set inside a low-poly virtual world where you command small squads and programs to beat back a virus and save the Darwinians. Its minimalist retro look and inventive missions set it apart.

The Long Journey Home

Sci-fi setting

A procedurally generated space odyssey where you hop between dangerous star systems with a small crew, manage scarce resources and pilot a ship under Newtonian physics. Alien encounters and hard choices reshape every attempt to get home.

60 Parsecs!

Sci-fi setting

You flee a nuclear strike into space with a small crew and must manage supplies, morale and tough decisions in a darkly funny retro-futuristic survival story. Random events make each run play out differently, often ending in surprising or fatal ways.

FTL: Faster Than Light

Sci-fi setting

You captain a starship on the run, rerouting power, directing crew and making tough calls in pausable real-time battles. Every run is procedurally generated, brutally tense and often ends in glorious failure.

Oxygen Not Included

Puzzles and brain teasers

A deep colony sim inside an asteroid where you keep your Duplicants alive by managing oxygen, heat, food and waste through interlocking physics-like systems. Spectacular failures are part of the fun, often with dark humor.

Revenge of the Titans

Sci-fi setting

A tower defense game with real-time strategy touches, where you mine resources, build and upgrade defenses, and hold off waves of alien Titans. A 50-level campaign and a tech tree keep it varied.

Duskers

Sci-fi setting

You guide a squad of drones through derelict spaceships using a command line, relying only on sensors and limited camera feeds. Its roguelike survival structure and oppressive atmosphere keep tension high.

Enter the Chronosphere

Sci-fi setting

A psychedelic roguelike that mixes real-time action with turn-based tactics. You play misfit aliens, stack weapons, items and abilities into wild builds, and shut down time-devouring chronospheres.

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