Spaceship hijacking sim Heat Signature [official site] is coming out on Sept 21, says creator and Gunpointer Tom Francis. Like its spiritual predecessor, it involves infiltrating places you shouldn t be, sneaking around like a cheeky space burglar, and completing missions for one of the galaxy s factions. But ultimately it seems to be about panicking as all your plans and preparation go terribly awry. I asked Francis why he was proliferating the Things Go Badly Wrong genre and he said that “most games with challenge” fitted that description.
“The part I like,” he said, “is ‘But There Might Be A Way Out Of It’.”
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