HeatStroke

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HeatStroke

Short description

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

Developer
Braden Banning, Matt Garnett, Talia bob Mair
Publisher
ItsTheTalia
Release
Fri, Dec 16, 2022
Price
$1.99
Reviews
197
Positive
90%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
20K – 50K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Indie, Simulation
Tags
Automobile Sim Simulation Driving Visual Novel Walking Simulator Spelling Typing 2.5D 2D Colorful Psychedelic Pixel Graphics 1990's Singleplayer America Atmospheric Relaxing Education Philosophical Offroad
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$17ksomewhere between $8k and $96k · roughly 4K–50K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $1.91, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $1.99 launch price. That is 4% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

2 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$17k → ~$17k
Reviews 197 → 197
Positive reviews 90.4% → 90.4%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 68 further data points reach back to Nov 24, 2022 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $0.55 on Feb 5, 2026.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around HeatStroke is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Automobile Sim + Simulation + Driving

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with HeatStroke. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Euro Truck Simulator 2 Euro Truck Simulator 2 SCS Software 19 titles 3 − Visual Novel − Walking Simulator − Spelling + Transportation + Open World + Realistic $19.99 763,125 97% Fri, Oct 12, 2012 $320m
$244m – $320m
BeamNG.drive BeamNG.drive BeamNG first game 3 − Visual Novel − Walking Simulator − Spelling + Physics + Realistic + Destruction $24.99 394,158 97% Fri, May 29, 2015 $243m
$191m – $243m
American Truck Simulator American Truck Simulator SCS Software 19 titles 3 − Visual Novel − Walking Simulator − Spelling + Open World + Transportation + America $19.99 167,379 97% Tue, Feb 02, 2016 $80.6m
$53.9m – $80.6m
Assetto Corsa Assetto Corsa Kunos Simulazioni 3 titles 3 − Visual Novel − Walking Simulator − Spelling + Racing + Multiplayer + VR $19.99 137,105 93% Fri, Dec 19, 2014 $102m
$82.4m – $165m
My Summer Car My Summer Car Amistech Games 2 titles 3 − Visual Novel − Walking Simulator − Spelling + Open World + Survival + Realistic $14.99 109,314 95% Wed, Jan 08, 2025 $73.5m
$14.9m – $131m

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