Games Like Heat Signature

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.

Why similar: Stealth 73.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 6.8%, Action 4.8%, 2D 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the same developer, this game shares the core DNA of using gadgets and environmental manipulation to infiltrate secure locations.

Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

Why similar: Stealth 29%, Roguelike 12.5%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Roguelite 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based tactical game perfectly captures the high-stakes tension of corporate infiltration and gadget-based stealth.

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Space 21.9%, Real-Time with Pause 18.6% ★, Roguelike 16.4%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Perma Death 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive space-faring roguelike that focuses on ship management and tactical decision-making under pressure.

Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?

Why similar: Stealth 24.2%, Space 17.2%, Roguelike 13.9%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Sci-fi 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi roguelike that involves boarding derelict ships to scavenge for supplies, mirroring the core loop of Heat Signature.

Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.

Why similar: Roguelike 23.6%, Stealth 20.7%, Roguelite 20.2%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Action Roguelike 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar level of emergent, sandbox-style gameplay where you can complete objectives using a wide variety of gadgets and playstyles.

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Space 29.4%, Roguelike 17.5%, Procedural Generation 14.6%, Roguelite 13.9%, Sci-fi 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric sci-fi game where you remotely pilot drones into derelict ships, requiring careful resource management and tactical planning.

Teeth-clenching stealth, followed by tactical hardcore gunplay for those not looking for a quiet way in. Intravenous redefines challenging stealth-action and will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Why similar: Stealth 52.8%, Tactical 15%, Top-Down 11.3%, Top-Down Shooter 9%, Strategy 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down tactical shooter that emphasizes stealth, gadget usage, and careful planning to clear out hostile environments.

Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.

Why similar: Space 21.6%, Roguelite 12.5%, Action Roguelike 12.3%, Roguelike 9.8%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi roguelike focused on boarding and destroying procedurally generated alien ships with a variety of tactical equipment.

Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 36.4% ★, Tactical 19.4%, Top-Down 17.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Top-Down Shooter 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This tactical infiltration game captures the 'planning vs. execution' feel through its real-time-with-pause mechanics and focus on breaching.

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space 53.4%, Sci-fi 21.7%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Open World 3%

Why You'll Like It: A methodical, physics-based space game that focuses on the intricate process of dismantling ships, appealing to the same 'ship-focused' interest.

In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

Why similar: Roguelike 26.7%, Top-Down Shooter 11.2%, Perma Death 10.8%, Action Roguelike 10.3%, Top-Down 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, top-down, procedurally generated sci-fi shooter that demands quick thinking and efficient use of limited resources.

Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.

Why similar: Stealth 65.3%, Tactical 15.5%, Strategy 12.7%, Indie 2.6%, Action 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time-with-pause tactical game that rewards creative gadget use and careful observation of enemy patrol patterns.

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Why similar: Space 29.5%, Roguelike 16.3%, Roguelite 14.6%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A complex space-survival roguelike that forces you to manage your ship and crew through dangerous, procedurally generated encounters.

Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.2% ★, Space 17.1%, Roguelike 9.8%, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Roguelite 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical roguelite inspired by FTL that features deep sci-fi narrative and ship-to-ship combat management.

Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.

Why similar: Space 32.7%, Roguelike 23.8%, Roguelite 17.7%, Action Roguelike 9.9%, Action 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based action-roguelike that offers incredible build depth and procedural variety for your ship's capabilities.

Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.

Why similar: Stealth 26.5%, Roguelike 20.9%, Procedural Generation 17%, Perma Death 14.3%, Sci-fi 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A traditional roguelike with a deep item and gadget system that allows for highly tactical, sci-fi-themed gameplay.

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

Why similar: Stealth 58.9%, Top-Down 17.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Indie 7%, Action 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A heist-focused game that relies on gadgets and stealth to navigate complex environments, capturing the thrill of a successful break-in.

Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.

Why similar: Stealth 29.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Top-Down 11.9%, Tactical 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A squad-based tactical game that emphasizes stealth and infiltration in a cyberpunk setting, allowing for multiple approaches to objectives.

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Why similar: Stealth 59.2%, Strategy 13.9%, Top-Down 9.6%, Action 6.7%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down stealth game that focuses on emergent chaos and finding creative ways to eliminate targets without being caught.

Assemble a cyber agent team to infiltrate procedurally-generated bases in this co-op stealth roguelike adventure. Master highly tactical combat, a cache of cyber weaponry, and teamwork to save humanity from mind-control.

Why similar: Stealth 34%, Strategy 17.3%, Indie 10.5%, Action 10%, Roguelite 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical stealth game designed for co-op that focuses on infiltrating space stations and managing gadgets to remain undetected.

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

Why similar: Stealth 82.7%, Indie 5.3%, Action 5.1%, 2D 3.2%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for gadget-based stealth, offering deep mechanical satisfaction in how you manipulate the environment to succeed.

A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.

Why similar: Space 35.7%, Top-Down 17.7%, Procedural Generation 16.9%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based space exploration game that rewards careful piloting and methodical resource gathering in a dangerous environment.

Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Why similar: Space 32.9%, Real-Time with Pause 17.2% ★, Roguelike 14%, Strategy 9.8%, Roguelite 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space strategy game that emphasizes roguelike elements and tactical ship management during exploration.

SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods. Experience the next level in gun-play and dive into unparalleled build options and Android upgrades. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?

Why similar: Roguelite 25%, Top-Down Shooter 23.2%, Roguelike 13.6%, Action Roguelike 10.6%, Top-Down 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down shooter with deep tactical customization and a focus on managing equipment and weapon systems in high-intensity combat.

Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

Why similar: Space 42%, Top-Down 13.6%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down space action game that allows for significant ship customization and tactical combat in a procedurally generated galaxy.

Desperados III is a story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game, set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. Play smart if you want to succeed. A good plan can make the difference between survival and finding yourself at the business end of a pistol.

Why similar: Stealth 60.9%, Strategy 15.9%, Tactical 12.9%, Top-Down 5%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in real-time-with-pause tactical stealth that requires meticulous planning and clever use of character-specific abilities.

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.3% ★, Space 18.9%, Roguelike 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9.1%, Perma Death 9.1%

Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.

Why similar: Space 24.6%, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Roguelite 10.6%, Roguelike 9.5%, Top-Down 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world space exploration roguelite that focuses on upgrading your ship and surviving increasingly difficult encounters.

Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission. As the captain, you´ll make strategic decisions, explore unknown sectors, meet allies and enemies, gather resources, technology and crew. To battle stations!

Why similar: Space 21.1%, Real-Time with Pause 19.8% ★, Strategy 10.5%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Procedural Generation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi strategy game that focuses on ship-based combat and management through a procedurally generated journey.

Swirl W@tch is a tense stealth-action roguelite that takes place on an over-exploited gas giant. Infiltrate industrial installations, evade or eliminate guard ships, commit corporate sabotage and grow the movement to unlock new gear. Can your actions free this otherworldly world?

Why similar: Stealth 24.2%, Space 14.5%, Roguelike 10.1%, Roguelite 9.4%, Top-Down 9%

Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.

Why similar: Tactical 30.7%, Strategy 28.7%, Top-Down 16.1%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Indie 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical game that revolves entirely around planning and executing moves in a simulated environment, perfect for fans of tactical strategy.

Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member? Serve an evil empire or help an ancient tribe? You'll constantly have to make hard decisions and deal with consequences.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.3% ★, Space 15.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Roguelike 9.4%, Roguelite 8.6%

Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Roguelike 26.8%, Strategy 17.5%, Roguelite 14.8%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Procedural Generation 10.8%

EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.

Why similar: Space 47.6%, Action Roguelike 11.2%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Roguelite 9.4%, Roguelike 7.7%

Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 46% ★, Roguelike 14.1%, Perma Death 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Strategy 9.1%

Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 39.6%, Roguelike 25.7%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Open World 14%, Singleplayer 2.4%

True Roguelike. Turn-based shooter. Permadeath. Tribute to the sci-fi classics of the Golden VHS era. Successor to DRL. Just you and your gun against hordes of horrors and monstrosities. Give them hell to the rhythm of heavy metal.

Why similar: Roguelike 59%, Strategy 10.2%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Top-Down 5.1%

Steam Marines is a squad based Roguelike set on a steampunk spaceship. It features tactical play focused on positioning and careful use of resources. Built to keep you on your toes as you progress through the decks of your besieged ship while clearing enemies and trying to reach each level's elevator.

Why similar: Roguelike 28.6%, Space 17.4%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Strategy 10%, Sci-fi 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, squad-based roguelike that emphasizes positioning and resource management in a sci-fi setting.

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Space 49.2%, Top-Down 11.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Action 5.5%

House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most terrifying starfighter. Hunt the enemies of the Empire and bring ruin to their people.

Why similar: Space 56.1%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Action 11.6%, Indie 8.3%, Tactical 4.7%

Everything moves when you do in Enter the Chronosphere, the turn-based bullet hell roguelike. Each chronosphere is procedurally generated with defenders and biomes from the worlds it has consumed. Break in, find exotic weaponry and gadgets, outsmart hostile aliens, and fight your way to the core.

Why similar: Roguelike 22%, Roguelite 19%, Top-Down Shooter 12%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Top-Down 11.3%

A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

Why similar: Space 31.2%, Roguelike 28.3%, Sci-fi 17%, Strategy 12.1%, Tactical 9.7%

Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.

Why similar: Space 46.3%, Strategy 16.8%, Action 10.3%, Indie 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.3%

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Roguelike 35.2%, Roguelite 16.9%, Top-Down 16.1%, Open World 9.7%, Indie 7.7%

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Space 31.6%, Roguelike 26.5%, Top-Down 25.5%, Indie 6.5%, Adventure 3.9%

Fly a star-fighter against a bloodthirsty armada. Gather weapons, resources, and upgrades to help you push back the relentless assault while protecting the galaxies' civilians!

Why similar: Space 20.4%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Roguelike 11.5%, Perma Death 9.9%, Roguelite 9.8%

A space action-adventure unlike any other: navigate your spacecraft through a galactic-scale mystery. Make sure to loot, craft and upgrade your space fleet. Play the story campaign or test your skills in vicious arena modes against AI opponents.

Why similar: Space 27.9%, Top-Down 14.6%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Top-Down Shooter 8.5%

---Red---Tether--> is an action-packed “combat-puzzle” roguelite. You will tear apart massive space fleets, using nothing but your advanced tether harpoons. Pull and crash ships into another, rip their components off, then grapple-swing your way out of danger.

Why similar: Space 17.2%, Top-Down 14.9%, Top-Down Shooter 13.3%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Procedural Generation 10.4%

Pilot your ship in the seamless open world made of space, planets, and more. Find new ships and equipment, find allies and beat all the enemies in this open source space shooter!

Why similar: Space 48.2%, Open World 9.5%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Roguelike 8.5%, Action 8.5%

Welcome to DROP, a fast-paced action-strategy hacking simulator. Ready to hack your way to fame and fortune while avoiding getting caught? Use stealth and cunning to maneuver between the ongoing power struggle of corporations and factions to control the fragmented networks in the city.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 23.6%, Roguelite 19.8%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Action Roguelike 10.5%

Spaceship Looter is an action roguelike game, where mercenaries of all stripes rob drifting schooner, lost transtport ships and abandoned military cruisers - all what is filled with tons of valuable loot and hidden in the deep space.

Why similar: Roguelike 26.7%, Roguelite 19.2%, Action Roguelike 14.5%, Perma Death 13%, Action 8.1%

Intravenous 2 is the ultimate blend of tactical gameplay and immersive storytelling. Will you embrace the shadows or confront your foes head-on? The choice is yours. Experience a new era of tactical stealth action. Save lives. Uncover secrets. Take vengeance.

Why similar: Stealth 45.8%, Top-Down 15.2%, Tactical 15%, Top-Down Shooter 13.3%, Action 5.6%

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Why similar: Space 29.2%, Procedural Generation 18.5%, Roguelike 18.4%, Top-Down 15.8%, Sci-fi 11.5%

The Swindle is a steampunk cybercrime caper about breaking into buildings, hacking their systems, stealing all their cash, and quickly running away again before the police show up.

Why similar: Stealth 43.2%, Roguelike 13.7%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Action Roguelike 7.7%, Roguelite 7.7%

Brutal twin stick shooter with fun and clever enemies. Also has roguelite and Sci-Fi stuff.

Why similar: Space 15.3%, Perma Death 12.5%, Top-Down 12.3%, Bullet Time 12.3% ★, Procedural Generation 12.2%

Sky Rogue is a fwooshy rogue-lite action flight simulator! Blow things up over land, sea, and air, on an infinite number of procedurally-generated islands. Go toe-to-toe with enemy aces or assault giant flying aircraft carriers, but watch out for volleys of missiles; when you die, you're dead.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 25.6%, Roguelite 19.1%, Perma Death 16.9%, Roguelike 13.7%, Action Roguelike 9.4%

Swordship is a roguelike where dodging is your best weapon. Trick your enemies into killing each other, steal containers to upgrade your ship and unlock new ways to play. Dodge, dive, die, learn, repeat.

Why similar: Roguelike 28.3%, Top-Down 20.3%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Tactical 14.3%, Action Roguelike 9.9%

You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.

Why similar: Space 22.6%, Roguelike 14.7%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Roguelite 11.5%, Top-Down Shooter 10%

Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.

Why similar: Space 60.4%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Open World 8%, Top-Down 5.3%, Action 3.2%

In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.

Why similar: Tactical 46.6%, Strategy 20.1%, Indie 14.4%, Adventure 9.6%, Singleplayer 9.2%