To get the review portion out of the way: Heat Signature is a really, really god damn good game from Suspicious Developments (who previously made the also really good Gunpoint). It’s basically Hotline Miami restructured as a mission based roguelike with a randomized unlock tree. If that sounds like a solid game idea, it is, and the game does it extremely well. It’s less than a month old and it’s 15 bucks.
Nothing is perfect though, and having just completed a 20 hour run of the game (which slaughtered most of my free time during the last week and a half), I have some thoughts on the parts that could have used a bit more attention.
Some pretty big end game spoilers are at the end of this post.
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