Heavy Hearts

Editorial Has potential

Heavy Hearts is an action RPG that works harder than most adult games to be an actual game. Built by a solo developer with talented artists, it delivers engaging real-time combat, pixel-art H-content woven into progression, and a dark-fantasy story that leans equally on drama and comedy. The pixel art is consistently strong, character writing is earnest, and the combat system—rare for this niche—offers genuine tactical depth with blocking, parrying, spell casting, and element switching. However, the build is rough. Recent updates broke core features: unskippable cinematics, save corruption on the final boss, frame-rate drops during combat that make timing attacks feel sluggish, and controller support that forces keyboard input even mid-playthrough. Several players report 3+ hours of progress deleted by late-game bugs. Exploration and movement controls are clunky, UI is sparse, and some quests have broken geometry or softlock triggers. This is clearly mid-development work being sold as complete. If you can tolerate technical jank and occasional lost saves, the creative work—story, art, combat design—is genuinely worth experiencing. Just back up your saves religiously.