I'm not sure that I can recommend Heat Signature quite enough.

Get it. Play it. Play it more. Crash through everything until you are frustrated and die frequently and lose and retry and DO think about the story of your character.

It's not a broad, sweeping, epic. It's not a hundred thousand word professionally voiced cut scene enhanced sweeping tale. It's straight forward. What are you trying to do? Kill the guy that tortured your friend, rescue your son, steal the thing so you can retire, etc.

Some of those might hit a nerve. Rescue your son was the one that got me.

After a lengthy, desperate, poorly planned incursion in which I exhausted all the resources I had brought along just getting TO my son and preventing the ship from leaving, I was pinned in with him, unconscious, facing a dozen armored, shielded enemy with nothing to fight them.

Using the natural game mechanics, I blasted us through the hull into space and with mere seconds to spare caught him with my pod by remote, and then myself.

I'll admit, my eyes were a little wet by the time we got back to the station.

A game that can naturally create emotional situations and desperate encounters, that does so without heavy scripting and lots of dialogue and voice acting, is really special. For that reason, I suggest you get it, play it, feel free to suck at it, and see for yourself.

Heat Signature really is something special.

I'm not sure that I can recommend Heat Signature quite enough. Get it. Play it. Play it more. Crash through everything until you are frustrated and die frequently and lose and retry and DO think about the story of your character. It's not a broad, sweeping, epic. It's not a hundred thousand word professionally voiced cut scene enhanced sweeping tale. It's straight forward. What are you trying to do? Kill the guy that tortured your friend, rescue your son, steal the thing so you can retire, etc. Some of those might hit a nerve. Rescue your son was the one that got me. After a lengthy, desperate, poorly planned incursion in which I exhausted all the resources I had brought along just getting TO my son and preventing the ship from leaving, I was pinned in with him, unconscious, facing a dozen armored, shielded enemy with nothing to fight them. Using the natural game mechanics, I blasted us through the hull into space and with mere seconds to spare caught him with my pod by remote, and then myself. I'll admit, my eyes were a little wet by the time we got back to the station. A game that can naturally create emotional situations and desperate encounters, that does so without heavy scripting and lots of dialogue and voice acting, is really special. For that reason, I suggest you get it, play it, feel free to suck at it, and see for yourself. Heat Signature really is something special.