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Pass through the threshold and enter a world born of memories. Defend yourself with a camera while solving death’s mysteries in a reverent evolution of 90’s survival horror, integrating both fixed cameras and over the shoulder perspectives.
Heartworm is a adventure, psychological horror and survival horror game
developed by Vincent Adinolfi
and published by DreadXP.
Released on July 31st 2025 is available only on Windows
in 6 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 431 reviews of which 374 were positive and 57 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+) or Windows 10
- Processor: x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 8 GB available space
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I can only recommend this game to players that enjoy light survival horror games or artistic games, it´s not that hard or challenging. It´s somewhat of a "comfort" survival game. The puzzles are mostly easy and I only got stuck once because I overlooked one item. The "shooting" mechanics are a bit wanky when played in the "oldschool" way, so I played it with the thirdperson option which was much preciser. The best part of the game is the atmosphere, music and artstyle. This is what makes the game special for me. I really enjoyed the build up in the first hour, especially the atmosphere in the very beginning in the house, but it lost its atmosphere after that. The last part of the game safed it for me a bit again with a beautiful setting, but the bossfight at the end was kind of a letdown . Overall this whole game feels more like a love letter to survival horror games with mediocore puzzles and gameplay but a strong atmosphere in the first half and a lot of passion for the artform that can be felt in a lot of sequences e.g. the backgrounds, music and the last cutscene which kind of reminded me of older animations like "Syberia", that made me feel a bit nostalgic. Story (5/10) Gameplay (5/10) Atmosphere (7/10) Music (7/10) I would rate this game with a solid (6/10). PS: it runs really well on the steam deck, I mostly played the game on it and only noticed minor slow downs in only one area.
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Take the camera combat mode from Fatal Frame series, Add the atmosphere of the Silent Hill series, (with some neon lights and purple haze instead of rusty fog) Throw in some puzzles like the early Resident Evil games, (keys, clocks, piano puzzles, emblems) Mix it all up and VOILA! you have Heartworm. Heartworm is a love letter to retro PS1 survival horror games. Even though it borrows heavily from the greats as mentioned above, it manages to carve out its own niche due to the fact that the art style and story are 100% original. The developers are adamant they do not use AI in any of their assets, music, or spoken dialog, which is a huge bonus. Heartworm took me 5.5 hours to complete my first playthrough. + First off, the music in this game is incredible. Each area has its own original unique beautiful music. Most of the tracks are hauntingly melancholic, which suits the story perfectly. + The sound effects are also amazing. I especially loved shooting the statues in the second chapter and hearing the screams as they fall apart. The static enemies also let off some hauntingly eerie noises when defeated. There are some great uses of soundstage effects that sound as if they are in the foreground, behind you, or behind other sounds, on the headphones. + The voice actress of the main character nailed her part, some of the best I've heard in awhile. Unforgettable. + The bosses in this game are well designed. The 2nd and 3rd chapter bosses are gorgeous. + The graphics are PS1 style, but they are extra crispy and beautiful if you run the game on 4K without the pixelation on. + The story is original and interesting. There are 3 endings to the game. All of the cutscenes are beautifully artistic and gorgeous. + Crazy outfits and costumes to unlock upon beating the game and finding certain secrets. + Fun Easter Egg references to old school RE games. - There is a sliding puzzle in this game. Everyone hates sliding puzzles and supposedly there is a big movement of people trying to get developers not to put these puzzles in games. Usually super annoying, the puzzle in this game is only mildly annoying... - Due to the fact that that this game is dreamlike, it is very easy to get lost. The landscapes do not make sense at all. Library leads to clock tower leads to garden leads to strange purple walkway leads back to foyer....you get the drift. Add in all the weird camera angles and its a bit headache inducing at times. - The combat in this game is too simple, and the "Modern Mode" of combat is a bit janky while you aim. The enemies are a bit too easy to kill, the game would welcome a hard mode. (I believe the developer mentioned hard mode will be included in the future) This game borrows from the best but holds its own identity high in the spotlight. Artistic and Quality. Prioritizes story and atmosphere over combat. Overall 8.5/10
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It sucks to say, as this game was one i've been looking forward to for a while, but this is barely a positive review. The issue boils down to the difficulty, I can understand and even appreciate devs wanting their games to be on the easier side of things, nothing wrong there. It's another thing to make it so easy that enemies don't feel in any way threatening, missing feels meaningless as the amount of ammo you get is probably about twice what you need to kill everything in the game and you just get way way way way too many health items, especially considering that avoiding attacks is really easy. The issue here is that this easy, this lack of tension, of threat, of needing to put in any effort whatsoever kills the atmosphere and immersion, combat as is feels tedious, you're basically immortal and enemies take a while to kill, as is the game would be better off without combat. I do still want to congratulate the team on creating what could be the basis for an incredible game but it badly requires rebalancing/difficulty options. Having some added complexity to enemy behaviour and the combat as a whole would help as well but I wouldn't except that to be changed in a released game.
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huge fan or the silent hill, fatal frame, and resident evil classics and the moment i saw the trailer i new this was it. a beautiful creation. and all the little flavor text i could want, thank you for this piece of digital art
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Great Silent Hill - Fatal Frame style classic survival horror game :)
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Heartworm is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.
Heartworm is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.
Heartworm received 374 positive votes out of a total of 431 achieving a rating of 8.09.
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Heartworm was developed by Vincent Adinolfi and published by DreadXP.
Heartworm is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Heartworm is not playable on MacOS.
Heartworm is not playable on Linux.
Heartworm is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Heartworm. Explore additional content available for Heartworm on Steam.
Heartworm does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Heartworm does not support Steam Remote Play.
Heartworm 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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Developer
Vincent Adinolfi
Publisher
DreadXP
Release
31 Jul 2025
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