72%Strong matchVoids Vigil
95%34395% positive reviews, Overwhelmingly Positive across 343 reviews·Singleplayer · Roguelike
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Fight your way through the Rising Heat, a gladiator style space spectacle bankrolled by the Extraterrestrial Elite! Take flight with a diverse cast of pilots, ships and weapons! Choose upgrades, discover synergies and construct a build powerful enough to give yourself a fighting chance!
Rising Heat
Steam
Master a dynamic momentum-based movement system. Line up multiple enemies to execute a flurry of precise tackles dealing devastating damage while bouncing between a barrage of enemy bullets!

Utilize the limited inventory your cockpit provides to optimize your build! Upgrade, integrate, and even fuse hacks together to create varied builds every run. Fusing empowers players to discover secret handmade synergies or to find a combo of stats and abilities that is entirely their own. Cleverly manipulate the shop, hack positioning, action order, and even your negative stats to get as much out of your build as possible.

Game-plan before each run, Select a pilot and a ship! Your choice of pilot grants you a powerful passive ability! While your ship, of which also comes with its own powerful passive, additionally determines your starting place for over 10+ stats!
There are 4 things to unlock in Rising Heat - Ships, Pilots, Hacks, and Maps! There is zero progression-based stat creep!
In co-op mode, both players have their ships connected by a deadly energy beam. While the beam can be used to destroy enemies, uncoordinated movement can yank your wingman into danger.
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