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The Black Heart is a VS 2d fighting game in the tradition of Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat, where 6 creatures face each other in cruel battles with gothic aesthetic.

The Black Heart is a combat, arcade and narration game developed by Andrés Borghi and published by Saibot Studios.
Released on October 21st 2021 is available only on Windows in 3 languages: English, Spanish - Latin America and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 300 reviews of which 290 were positive and 10 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Black Heart into these genres:

Combat Arcade Narration Singleplayer Fighting 2D Fighter 2D Dark Fantasy Horror Old School Dark Pixel Graphics Story Rich Cartoon Atmospheric Action Adventure Gothic Retro Local Multiplayer

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP
  • Processor: 300 MHz Processor
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 1280 x 720 32 bits
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025
Broken in the fun sense of the word. Each character plays extremely different than the rest, enough to justify the small roster. Short yet good story, amazing art and animations, nice ost. A worthy package, even at full price. Back in the MUGEN days this game felt out of place, it was an real piece of art and an actual game in a sea of shitposting and asset ripoffs. Now with a proper engine, rebalance and some visual rework, it stands the test of time as a solid fighting game in this modern era, more than 15 years later from its original release.
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Nov. 2024
An old one but good one. The controls are solid, and many of the finishers are not only brutal but also fun to watch. There's also a watch mode in case you want to run CPU VS CPU tournaments. It's not very often you see games with this look and feel. So really worth a look.
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Oct. 2024
I played around with this game back when it was a mugen game, and even back then these characters set a standard that no other mugen character or game has met. I'm happy to say that's even more evident in this version. Unlockable characters, a joke character, playable boss, full over arching story, fun characters, great art style, it has it all. also the soundtrack hits so good. it's my favorite fighting game and i hope others use this as a benchmark when making their own, mugen engine or not. you owe it to yourself to get this game. also def use peketo to unlock the secret character. trust me.
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Sept. 2024
Weird ass game, but it's PERFECT for Halloween! Highly recommend this to anyone who likes fighter games with gore.
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May 2024
Surprisingly cute and extremely charming horror themed fighting game with 6 characters initially in addition to 1 unlockable joke character and 2 unlockable boss characters (one of which is clearly not intended to be played normally . It's a 4 button fighter with lots of juggle combos, and a sort of install super for each character similar to dark force from vampire. I might have a hard time getting invested in this game in a competitive sense because there are lots of places where rng is used that significantly detract from the game in my opinion (most notably, shar-makai's dark force which summons ai controlled shar-makais to fight alongside you). Despite this and similar problems, the characters' movesets are generally very well designed and very fun, and there are a lot of moves in this game that I would still consider some of my favorite fighting game moves, to the extent that shar-makai is still my favorite character just by how cool all his moves that *aren't* dark force are. This game also has a lot of fun animations, including character dependent round start animations (in the peketo mirror, their heads are swapped and they toss their heads to each other so that they have the right color palette) and fatal supers which can only be used to kill a low health enemy while you have 3 bars. There are various death animations too which are usually pretty fun, especially ones involving shar-makai. While I've described it as cute, that's not to say it's not genuinely horror themed. The story mode was fun enough for me more so than maybe any fighting game story mode I've played before(which is not many to be fair, and also this is with the caviat that the final boss is more tedious than difficult and so I didn't enjoy that as much even as it was really cool), and had some genuinely pretty horrific artwork. If the horror aesthetic doesn't bother you then I think it's incredibly cute and charming, and if you're actively interested in the horror aesthetic like I am then the fact that I can describe it as "cute" certainly doesn't detract from the horror and you can get quite a bit more of it from the story mode. Disclaimer: This game does not seem to have replay functionality or online play at all? I've heard people talk about playing sets online, though I don't know if they used parsec, remote play, or if they found another way. The game also has a folder that seems to be for replays but I don't think it actually does anything with it. Both of these may be related to the fact that it's based on the MUGEN engine, which I don't know too much about but maybe it means there's a way to play online that I haven't found, or that MUGEN supports replay functionality but this game didn't implement it? I'm not sure. A fighting game without online play is definitely not something everyone is interested in though, so I'd mainly recommend this if you're invested enough in the genre to be exploring games like this, or if there's someone you want to play with locally and just have fun with
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Black Heart is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Black Heart is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

The Black Heart received 290 positive votes out of a total of 300 achieving a rating of 8.83.
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The Black Heart was developed by Andrés Borghi and published by Saibot Studios.

The Black Heart is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Black Heart is not playable on MacOS.

The Black Heart is not playable on Linux.

The Black Heart offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

The Black Heart offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

There is a DLC available for The Black Heart. Explore additional content available for The Black Heart on Steam.

The Black Heart does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Black Heart supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

The Black Heart 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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The Black Heart
9.75€
8.8
290
10
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
1
Developer
Andrés Borghi
Publisher
Saibot Studios
Release 21 Oct 2021
Platforms
Remote Play
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