Heat Death: Survival Train on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Heat Death: Survival Train is a early access, open world survival craft and crafting game
developed by Mass Game Devs
and published by LightOnDevs.
Released on December 12th 2024 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 486 reviews of which 393 were positive and 93 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or AMD Radeon RX 570 with 4 GB of VRam
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 10 GB available space
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Definitely promising. Sad it ended so fast, and rather unexpectedly. I assume there will be more content. The train needs upgrading options, more domestic features & a longer track. I'd love to just "ride the rails" for hours in a generated world, but when it ended after the Dome I was rather sad. Can't wait for updates!
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Heat Death: Survival Train is one of the most original survival games I've ever encountered. With that said, I ask the developer to remember something: It is a game. Games need a payoff for the player's hard work and determination to learn, play, and, in this case, survive. The resources are meager, scattered in some inaccessible places, even on the edge of a cliff with no way to get there. I got stuck in a crevice trying a few times. The drop pods (those large, round techno things in the background) could be used as major supply locations throughout the game's progression, (the "payoff" for the player's determination), and could be integrated into the story line. Also, the storms are too frequent, not allowing enough time to explore the outside area for more supplies, and unraveling the mystery of what happened. Early Access aside, this is a good game, and I've encountered no game-breaking bugs. Make it a great game, please. Take your time, think about the players who are eager for the next chapters, myself included, and follow your path of development, not limiting your creativity to the real world scenarios common in survival games. Give the players help, and the tools necessary to enjoy the experience, and you will build a loyal fan base. I'm sure there are individuals out there who are more educated, more intelligent, more experienced, and more knowledgeable about crafting rich and rewarding (and lucrative) video games. Don't allow those people to sap your determination to create something unique, wholly your own, by placing a clock on the development phase. Not to be critical, but money will be there when the job is done right, satisfies the gamers, and pushes the boundaries of creativity in the genre of survival games. Waiting with the patience of Job: driver_21.
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Love the game but a few things need to change to be better 1. faster walk and sprint speed 2. Increased carrying capacity 3. A way to rest on train to heal and recover stamina 4. Better engine acceleration (even slightly) 5. make the stamina depletion only affect sprint not health(thats how that works) Thats about it otherwise 10/10
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A Promising Game with Areas for Improvement This game has incredible potential, and I truly love the concept—it’s clear that a lot of passion has gone into its creation. I genuinely believe this could become something extraordinary, but as it stands, there are a few key areas holding it back. Like many others have noted, the crafting and resource system needs significant tuning. Current Challenges Resource Scarcity: Nothing is renewable. Early on, you’re reliant on scavenging for food and materials, but they’re often too scarce to sustain progress. Even basic items like walls and floors are prohibitively expensive, making it difficult to build anything meaningful. For example, you could stockpile materials in multiple chests and still only manage to construct a handful of items. Energy Management: Dynamos produce minimal power, break too easily, and feel frustrating to use. There’s no way to craft power cores, so you're stuck with what you can find. The Fission Reactor depletes so quickly that it feels more like a hindrance than a help. Meanwhile, the power demands of most systems are excessively high, often forcing you to choose between running lights or a heater—leaving you either blind or freezing. Suggestions for Improvement [*] Adjust resource-to-crafting ratios: Either reduce crafting costs or increase the amount of materials looted (the latter feels more natural). [*] Rebalance energy usage: Power consumption across the board needs to be tweaked, and the Fission Reactor should last longer. Constantly running out of power makes it difficult to survive, let alone progress. [*] Introduce a cold survival mechanic: Something like suit heaters, as hinted in the logs, would be a fantastic addition and allow for survival during outdoor exploration. [*] Make storms more engaging: Currently, storms feel like dead time. Perhaps storms could enable exploration at domes or other mechanics to keep players engaged. [*] Add a sleep mechanic: A bed or similar feature to heal and regain stamina during storms would make downtime less frustrating. [*] Improve durability mechanics: Items break down far too quickly, leaving you vulnerable and your train crippled after even minor skirmishes. [*] Enhance station gameplay: Starting stations in darkness with low power and requiring players to restore power and lights (far brighter than currently) would create a more immersive challenge. [*] Introduce renewable resources: Having some way to regenerate key materials, perhaps through drones dropping more loot or spawning more frequently, would make the game feel less punishing. [*] Crafting queue functionality: Allowing players to queue multiple items would eliminate tedious wait times and improve overall flow. [*] Add an auto-save or less punitive save system: There needs to be some sort of auto-save or a way to save the game without penalising players with excessive train energy costs. Currently, forgetting to save before venturing out often results in losing an hour of progress and falling into an endless death loop if you run out of power. Final Thoughts Right now, the game feels like it’s only just worth its price tag. That said, with the right updates, it could easily justify a higher cost because it has the foundations of something truly amazing. I’m excited to see how the game evolves and can’t wait for future updates.
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After reading some of these reviews I think it only fair to give a somewhat opposing view to what is being claimed. Graphics are not great, they are ok! but great.. no, not sure why thats being said, there are huge areas of terrain that have been painted black .. on snow, looks out of place and like someone dabbed a huge black paintbrush on it, other high res against very low res textures and so on. There are tons of repeat assets, multiple buildings repeated identically, most with only 1-2 items i them. Trees repeated, like looking at a single cloned tree x1000 and calling it a forest. There are some unique station layouts once you enter chapter 1 but there are still a ton of repeat assets and really over done, like 40 solar generators or 50 shipping crates. Building interface is not good, anyone saying otherwise is pulling your leg or have never played a building game before, its a very simple bog standard menu, that desperately needs some QoL fixes. To give you a blind example, you Press B, select category, select sub category, select piece, place piece then right click to close the entire build menu and start again to place a different piece, you can't go back to the previous menu, you literally have to close it and start from scratch PER PIECE. Each location has only a few items to find, all from the very small item catalogue this game has due to lack of content. I am literally talking about 1 building having 1 item in it kind of bad. The story is limited to finding 'notes', usually a single sentence per note, nothing riveting or engaging. All that being said, the train side of things is actually pretty good, you have to time your trip to each station, getting caught in a storm in your train without a heater will kill you, not managing energy properly will result in having no power to shoot at the drones who are bombing the crap out of your train or end up limping to the next station because you train has no power to move. Plus its only £8. I do recommended, purely for the train fun and price but these reviews calling it awesome/great/amazing like its one of the better games on steam will leave the vast majority of regular survival players pretty disappointed due to the lack of content and basic gameplay this has. If you have played VoidTrain, that game has quality, content, gameplay, balance, progression, story, art style and much more 10 times over than this game by a long shot.
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Heat Death: Survival Train is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.
Heat Death: Survival Train is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 11.79€ on Steam.
Heat Death: Survival Train received 393 positive votes out of a total of 486 achieving a rating of 7.61.
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Heat Death: Survival Train was developed by Mass Game Devs and published by LightOnDevs.
Heat Death: Survival Train is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Heat Death: Survival Train is not playable on MacOS.
Heat Death: Survival Train is not playable on Linux.
Heat Death: Survival Train is a single-player game.
Heat Death: Survival Train does not currently offer any DLC.
Heat Death: Survival Train does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Heat Death: Survival Train does not support Steam Remote Play.
Heat Death: Survival Train is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Mass Game Devs
Publisher
LightOnDevs
Release
12 Dec 2024
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