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Heading Out
Flee your fear and carve your story. Blaze a trail across mythic American highways, where choices twist your tale and danger’s always in the rearview mirror. With roguelike routes, limited resources, and breakneck chases, this isn’t just a drive—it’s your legend in the making.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, this game. A good friend suggested I buy it, she knows I like car games. And I love this game, but that reason little to do with the cars. It's the stories that go along with it, it's literally a roadtrip game through Real America. Still, things don't make me say…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“game needs steering wheel support and starting points other then just detroit.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Came for retro atmosphere and a good road story. Got repetitive gameplay, shallow racing, and more political agenda than actual content. The art style is cool. Everything else underwhelms.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 18:50 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Minor Hotfix
We've implemented a few fixes, mainly to the UI (word spacing, font touchups). Unity has also been updated. Nothing much to see here. Carry on.
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Heading Out is Steam Deck verified!
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Heading Out Hits the Road on Consoles!
🚦 Heading Out is now on Consoles! 🚦 The wait is over, drivers. We’re beyond excited to announce that Heading Out is now available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S! Whether you’re chasing freedom o
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Racing, Strategy |
| Player tags | Visual Novel · Stylized · Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Choices Matter · Narrative · Choose Your Own Adventure · Comic Book · Interactive Fiction · Nonlinear · Resource Management · Dynamic Narration (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Playable without Timed Input · Stereo Sound |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 55 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.headingout.games/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i3-10320 or AMD Ryzen 3 3100 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 560 Storage: 30 GB available space