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HeatStroke cover art

HeatStroke

Talia bob Mair · ItsTheTalia · 2022-12-16

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 24, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

HeatStroke is a simulation game tasking you to transcribe an unhinged short story while driving down a seemingly endless desert road.

90%
positive of 224 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 30 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 31,718 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.5k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 224 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.55 at Steam (2026-02-05)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
353520222026Week of 2022-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$1.99$0.552022-11-242026-07-092022-11-24 — best price $1.992023-03-16 — best price $1.492023-03-23 — best price $1.992023-06-29 — best price $0.992023-07-13 — best price $1.992023-11-21 — best price $0.992023-11-28 — best price $1.992023-12-21 — best price $0.992024-01-04 — best price $1.992024-02-26 — best price $0.992024-03-04 — best price $1.992024-03-14 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $1.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $1.992025-03-14 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-06-26 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $1.992026-02-05 — best price $0.552026-02-12 — best price $1.992026-05-18 — best price $1.472026-05-21 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

1
achievements tracked
19.9%
earned "HeatStroke"
19.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-12-17 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)37100%1

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

Player tags

2D2.5D1990'sTypingAmericaDrivingColorfulSpellingSimulationPsychedelic

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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