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Heading Out cover art

Heading Out

Serious Sim · Crunching Koalas · 2024-05-07

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ActionAdventureIndieRacingStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 07, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 29, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Aug 29, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)

Flee your fear and carve your story. Blaze a trail across mythic American highways, where choices twist your tale and danger’s always in the rearview mirror. With roguelike routes, limited resources, and breakneck chases, this isn’t just a drive—it’s your legend in the making.

Heading Out is an Action, Adventure, Indie and Racing game released in 2024, priced at $8.74, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (76% of 706 reviews).

3
playing now
76%
positive of 713 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
4.11★
PlayStation Store rating (184 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.74
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 58 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (264 reviews).
  • · Top 18% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 713 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$7.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2025-10-27) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 80 of 117 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
20820820242026Week of 2024-05-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$7.992024-05-072026-10-152024-05-07 — best price $17.992024-08-19 — best price $13.992024-11-18 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $12.992025-04-25 — best price $24.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-09-05 — best price $19.992025-09-29 — best price $9.992025-10-08 — best price $19.992025-11-05 — best price $19.992025-11-16 — best price $19.992025-12-03 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $9.992026-01-15 — best price $19.992026-01-29 — best price $9.992026-02-20 — best price $9.992026-03-03 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $9.992026-04-09 — best price $19.992026-04-21 — best price $19.992026-04-30 — best price $8.992026-05-20 — best price $19.992026-05-29 — best price $19.992026-06-11 — best price $7.992026-07-17 — best price $9.992026-08-17 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $9.992026-09-03 — best price $9.992026-09-07 — best price $9.992026-09-11 — best price $9.992026-09-15 — best price $9.992026-09-19 — best price $9.992026-09-23 — best price $19.992026-09-27 — best price $9.992026-10-01 — best price $9.992026-10-05 — best price $9.992026-10-09 — best price $19.992026-10-13 — best price $7.992026-10-15 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

55
achievements tracked
94.4%
earned "I Want to Break Free"
13.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyGamepad RecommendedPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller Support

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4481%55
PS5 (PlayStation)1393%56
Xbox Series (Xbox)810%55

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

MovieRacingDrivingStylizedNarrativeNonlinearComic BookRogue-likeRogue-liteVisual Novel

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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