Heat Signature is, at its core, a stealth game about breaking into spaceships and doing various unpleasant things to the people aboard them. Or it can be an action game about breaking into spaceships and doing unpleasant things to the people aboard them, if you'd rather.
The story in this one is minimal, at best - there's a bit of backstory to the whole thing, and an ultimate conclusion you're working towards, but the two combined make up about 15 minutes. If you read particularly slowly. It's a bit weird to me that I like it anyway, since I typically prefer elaborate stories, but then I can make plenty of amusing stories of my own in describing how I managed to pull off the latest impossible missions.
On that note, the core of the game is the missions you take; these can involve assassinating someone, stealing something, rescuing someone, or capturing someone. You can use whatever combination of guns, teleporters, grenade launchers, hacking devices, or other gadgets you prefer to break through the locked doors in each ship preventing you from getting to your target. Each ship is also guarded by crew with various gadgets of their own, who will be all too happy to shoot you and throw your dying body out the airlock if they see you.
What makes it incredibly fun is the creativity this fosters. With a clever combination of gadgets, it's possible to bust through an entire ship without even being seen - or one could just take a pile of guns and ammo and kill everything on that same ship. Finding clever solutions to some of the more difficult missions is a great way to feel accomplished... although there are also moments when a stupid misclick costs one quite a bit, too. I highly recommend it.
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