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Step into a quiet, abandoned Ukrainian village, left empty after the Calamity. In this short, meditative, and melancholic journey, you’ll rekindle the hearths of deserted homes, restoring warmth and hope to the families who once lived here.
Back to Hearth is a atmospheric, exploration and walking simulator game
developed by Podoba Interactive
and published by Marevo Collective.
Released on September 25th 2025 is available on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 10 languages: English, Ukrainian, German, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 350 reviews of which 343 were positive and 7 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 3.49€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Back to Hearth into these genres:
Atmospheric
Exploration
Walking Simulator
First-Person
Cozy
Retro
Adventure
Short
Casual
3D
Female Protagonist
Singleplayer
Point & Click
Story Rich
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Back to Hearth:
| UI | Subtitle | Audio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | |||
| German | |||
| French | |||
| Spanish - Spain | |||
| Japanese | |||
| Portuguese - Portugal | |||
| Polish | |||
| Portuguese - Brazil | |||
| Ukrainian | |||
| Spanish - Latin America |
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10/11
- Processor: Intel Core i3
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
- Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
- Processor: both Apple Silicon and Intel
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
Linux
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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A gentle, cosy, crunchy, House Flipper-esque vibe, which paints a heart warming tale of finding closeness, and what it means for a house to be a home, with some exceptionally fast chickens. If you love a retro, low res, low poly aesthetic as much as I do, then you'll love this little gem, it peacefully fills a few hours.
House Flipper but ... Smaller Scale Rural Picturesque No selling Heartfelt Comforting Emotional Wholesome A soothing little walking sim where you repair and restore the houses and gardens left behind by families fleeing a great calamity so that the families may return home and be together again. Like Dread Fields by this studio, The colours are gorgeous. I could just walk around admiring the hues and ambience of the landscape and feel completely at peace. We have collectibles once again! I love to find these and learn little bits of history and culture about the featured items. Meeting the families and hearing their stories can really tug on the heartstrings. A beautiful little game I enjoyed immensely. Another Jewel in Podoba's crown.
Ah... The Calamity. I'll be honest - as a Ukrainian, this was a bit of a tough play. While my personal experience as a refugee was a bit of the opposite of the one in the game (I left my beautiful busy Kharkiv to take shelter in a much smaller, calmer Khmelnytskyi) - the familiarity of it all struck quite a bittersweet chord. It's a tough story to tell with very real implications, but I feel that Back to Hearth succeeds in doing so with flying colors. I really appreciate the pacing here, as the game eases you into the understanding of what occurred and what is happening in the present quite gently, but in a guiding and non-condescending way. It felt very natural, and despite going in blind, I never really felt confused (except for that one time at the end when I ran around the house and yard looking for a bottle of glue for a much longer period than I should've, haha ). I love how each chapter manages to tell a slightly different flavor of the same story - of lives halted, livelihoods abandoned, people and communities dispersing in order to survive. Personally, the story with the grandpa stuck with me the most, as my own father chose to stay behind just the same - continuing to keep the house as close as it was back when we were all at home together. Him not wanting to part with his love's shawl especially was such a specific, real touch, together with the messy clothing and a bunch of logs saved in the house for convenience despite them blocking the main entrance. I have recently had to visit back home after my father had passed away, and the image was strikingly similar. Mess of clothing and things caused by the strain of loneliness and dreadful circumstances. Lots of things all around the house "just in case" so they're there if they're ever needed, and for convenience because the previous ways of getting things are now hazardous and require too much effort. And many, countless things that belong to loved ones, clinging to the hope of things going back to how they used to be. A very personal comparison, I know, but the game itself felt very personal. It struck me just how real it all felt, from the smallest details to the overall greater picture and the plot. It's a job very well done in that regard. All in all, despite being a less engaging experience by the nature of its genre, it left a very tangible impact on myself, and I'm sure many others. Bittersweet, but greatly needed, I think. Besides that, the game is a wonderful experience, and can be quite educational to some, while nostalgic to the rest! Fully recommend, 11/10 :) May we all heal and reignite our Hearths soon <3
Sometimes we go about our day, and do our day to day tasks, wake up, take the bus, doomscroll, go to work, etc etc, without really appreciating it. Yes yes, you've heard it before, "be grateful for what blessings God gave you", but sometimes you don't really realise what that means, because for you, your daily life is your baseline. Until you get a comparison to how life could be/was, you cannot really understand it. You might still be grateful, but not quite. I definately fall victim this phenomenon as well. And this game was a subtle wakeup call to realise that maybe I should appreciate a bit more. This game is not supposed to tell a gut wrenching story, it is not meant to have brilliant and engaging mechanics. No need for saturated graphics, bright colours or bombastic visuals. But instead, it gives something so much more fulfilling. It gives you a snippet of life, in an alternate timeline. A simpler time. A time where wifi and houses and whatever else as we know today were not even a dream. Where houses were small, but small as in just beds and a kitchen, with "luxury" affording you a stable for animals to hold. A game where you feel surprised by seeing a 1930s telephone, where the narrator says it is the only phone in the village. Yes, those times did exist. You might be lucky and hear it from a grandpa or a grandma, but those times were truly a thing. And for us modern day people, we can only hazard a guess as to how life was back then. It was quite more simple that's for sure. People would say people lived in poverty. But I wouldn't be so sure about that. While they might not have the modern advancements of humanity, modern medicine, technology, wifi, all that jazz, they were more in tune with nature than us for sure. A fresh harvest, not the one you buy from the market, but the one you harvest from your own tree. Many a times the older generation blames the younger because they don't appreciate. I would say they shan't be so hard on them as they simply were born in an era where this advancement is a baseline. But sometimes, it is good to look back and see, to be able to truly appreciate today's marvels. Art is not found in graphical fidelity, or size. It is not a concrete concept, but this game has it. It has soul. You can tell that even though the game is not super high quality, it is brimming with soul in every pixel, every tree and every cup on the floor. Thank you for letting me experience such art.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Back to Hearth is currently priced at 3.49€ on Steam.
No, Back to Hearth is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 3.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Back to Hearth received 343 positive votes out of a total of 350 achieving a rating of 8.98.
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Back to Hearth was developed by Podoba Interactive and published by Marevo Collective.
Yes, Back to Hearth is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Back to Hearth is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Yes, Back to Hearth is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Yes, Back to Hearth is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Back to Hearth is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Back to Hearth does not support VR.
Back to Hearth is a single-player game.
No, Back to Hearth does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Back to Hearth does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Back to Hearth does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Back to Hearth 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.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Back to Hearth.
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Last Updates| Steam data | 17 October 2026 16:47 UTC |
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| Steam price | 26 October 2026 19:19 UTC |
| Steam reviews | 19 October 2026 16:05 UTC |
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Developer
Podoba Interactive
Publisher
Marevo Collective
Release
25 Sep 2025
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