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Heartbound is a non-traditional role-playing game about a boy, his dog, secrets, and sanity.

Heartbound is a story rich, rpg and adventure game developed and published by Pirate Software.
Released on December 24th 2018 is available on Windows and Linux in 6 languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Russian, Spanish - Latin America and Japanese.

It has received 2,657 reviews of which 2,257 were positive and 400 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. šŸ˜Ž

The game is currently priced at 9.75ā‚¬ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Heartbound into these genres:

Story Rich RPG Adventure Indie Great Soundtrack Pixel Graphics Choices Matter 2D Singleplayer Action Early Access Puzzle Psychological Horror Funny Atmospheric Horror Cute Anime LGBTQ+

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • Processor: 1.2Ghz+
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: This game is locked to 60 frames per second.
Linux
  • Processor: 1.2Ghz+
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: This game is locked to 60 frames per second.

User reviews & Ratings

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Aug. 2025
The game is pretty meh, felt like something my friends and I made in RPG maker, with better artwork. (recommending the game because dev will silence all real critics) I bought the game to support the dev. Despite the long road. Now IĀ“d rather turn my rectal track into a new ferret rescue shelter than give this dude another cent of my time after this. Whats crazy is he inspired me to make my own game, to finish my music album, and change my careers to something that lets me enjoy my life more. lesson learned. People are not their "viral" clips. Actually watching him do any real streaming was mind numbing and a chore. Its super disappointing to see someone you admired keep falling face first into their own sphincters. At least I still have my actual achievements I accomplished and no phoney internet dude can take that away! To the commentors. Thor has blocked me from the community forums and for some reason it wont allow me to comment below my review. To Govthefox, he has no idea what my game is called or who I would release it through, if I decided to release it. Nor am I afraid of a fake hacker. Even if his dad did work at Blizzard. To Destroyer902 - Unnamed for now, but would be something like Dachel Detective or something silly.
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July 2025
Only marking it positive so the creator doesn't take it down (yes, he's that petty). Terrible. Game play's terrible, dialog is cringe. The only pluses I will give it is that its art style's pretty and music's OK. Don't buy this game. You do five minutes of research about the creator and you realize that the game's never gonna come out. It's been in development for 10 years and has made barely any progress (likely from the terrible code-base that should probably be rewritten from the ground up if the guy wants any chance of releasing this thing within another 10 years). The game play (if you even consider it such), is the most basic you can get. Puzzles are way too easy, boss fights are mostly point and click, the rest is basically just walking around and looking for stuff. SOOO boring. The story is rushed with no depth. You aren't told anything about any of these characters. Given hints, but nothing to get you interested or enticed. There's really no reason to care for any of it. Steer clear of Heart Bound, play anything else.
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July 2025
I said yes so that he wouldn't mark this review as bombing. + Art is fine. - Dialouge is so bad I actually rolled my eyes. - You can't spam skip so I actually had to slow read. - Jokes are so bad even drunk me wouldn't laugh. + "combat" is fine by me but not to me. - I would rather play Gayertale. For someone who claims these things your game is really just one step away from AI slop. You're a massive hypocrite and everyone know the only reason you're against Stop killing games is because you're a CO for a publisher who wants to screw over customers. <- Fun fact: the publisher publicly pushed against him after his little stunt. Would not recomend this game, not even pirate it.
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July 2025
TL;DR: the game is amazing but unfinished; the hate for this game is all from review bombing and people complaining about a dev who hasn't made a game fast enough. this game has gotten far to much unfounded hate. the dev's opinions don't effect the game. the fact that people are attacking this game is just disappointing... i don't know all the drama, but what i know is that attacking a silly game isn't a way to handle your dissatisfaction with some ones opinions. lets treat each other like people. yes, the game has been taking awhile. i don't like that its been in "early access" for years, but that's the only point that the negative reviewers have any ground on.
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Sept. 2024
Well made game with an awesome sound track. The story is very promising. I thought I was experiencing a bug so I lodged a ticket. Turns out it wasn't a bug I was just being a moron. Thor responded to the ticket promptly and respectfully as one could be when they receive a stupid ticket. Play the game and watch his streams
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Frequently Asked Questions

Heartbound is currently priced at 9.75ā‚¬ on Steam.

Heartbound is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75ā‚¬ on Steam.

Heartbound received 2,257 positive votes out of a total of 2,657 achieving a rating of 8.17.
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Heartbound was developed and published by Pirate Software.

Heartbound is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Heartbound is not playable on MacOS.

Heartbound is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Heartbound is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Heartbound. Explore additional content available for Heartbound on Steam.

Heartbound does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Heartbound does not support Steam Remote Play.

Heartbound 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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Heartbound
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Pirate Software
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Release 24 Dec 2018
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