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The Symbiant is a BL / Yaoi / Gay visual novel about two men, both from vastly different worlds, embracing their sexuality and their newfound romance. It is also a tale of interstellar friendship and being gay in space!

The Symbiant is a lgbtq+, visual novel and choices matter game developed and published by HeartCoreDev.
Released on February 02nd 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 14 languages: English, French, Russian, Traditional Chinese, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Thai, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 749 reviews of which 723 were positive and 26 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Symbiant into these genres:

LGBTQ+ Visual Novel Choices Matter Romance Anime Adventure 2D Simulation Aliens Multiple Endings Choose Your Own Adventure Hand-drawn Story Rich Singleplayer Space Indie

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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
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel Core2 Duo, AMD Phenom II or better
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: VRAM 8MB
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.6+
  • Processor: 1GHz
  • Memory: 256 MB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
  • Processor: Intel Core2 Duo, AMD Phenom II or better
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GT 750
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2025
🎮 Gameplay & Genre A polished BL/Yaoi sci-fi visual novel with branching storylines, romance, and fully illustrated CGs. It’s short—just under 4 hours to complete all achievements—but emotionally satisfying. No minigames or external mechanics: just strong writing, beautiful art, and romantic progression through dialogue and choice. 🔥 M/M Content Bara jock human meets gorgeous, soft-featured alien—cue the interstellar heat. This is a game about connection, trust, and mutual desire, with fully realized sex scenes and a romantic emotional arc. It’s definitely for us, and it doesn’t tiptoe around that. HeartCoreDev delivers again on earnest, adult M/M content that feels both sexy and sincere. 🎨 Visuals & Style Crisp, colorful, and lush. The art is high-quality and consistent throughout. While the alien LI isn’t full-on bara, he isn’t femme either—more soft and radiant, which balances well with the main character’s muscular build. The sci-fi setting adds a vibrant atmosphere, with nice environmental design and solid UI polish. 🗣️ Tone & Writing Emotionally resonant without being overwrought. The tone blends romantic curiosity with a hint of melancholy, but always remains hopeful. The writing leans tender and thoughtful rather than raunchy or jokey, and that’s a good thing here—it feels like a complete little story about falling in love across species and space. 👍 Best Thing The emotional payoff, visual polish and sexy scenes. It’s short, but memorable. 👎 Worst Thing Too short! It ends before you’re ready to leave the world or the romance (definitely glad it got a sequel!) ⭐ Final Verdict A touching, sexy, and thoughtfully made sci-fi romance. Perfect for anyone who wants well-rendered M/M content in a compact and sincere story. HeartCoreDev is absolutely worth supporting. I also curate a Steam page reviewing M/M games if you’re looking for more titles in this space: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45790038/
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Nov. 2025
This is a really good vn, the voice acting was a highlight for me especially Brahve's VA does a fantastic job. The story is good with or without the adult content so I'd recommend it even if you aren't interested in the adult patch - really enjoyed :)
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June 2025
The story is enjoyable and engaging. Not many choices to be made because it's primarily a visual novel. But still fun! I was surprised by the amount of kink but in a good way. And the artwork is so damn sexy with the adult patch. HIGHLY recommend the adult patch. My god...the dick...if I wasn't already gay, I am now. Gayer than before. So. Very. Gay. Just like this game!
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May 2025
I'm not gonna lie, this is an odd one. That's not even necessarily a criticism, I still rather liked it, but you should probably strap in for something vaguely bizarre. It's worth mentioning that the game is really designed to have the NSFW scenes as part of the story (the ones you can install as a free add-on). The story was definitely written originally with them in, and they just sort of awkwardly cut them out to make a "clean" version. I started my first play-through without them, and ended up exiting the game to go look at how to put them back in, because it was just painfully obvious that I was missing chunks. Flowed much better once I installed that add-on. If bizarre and NSFW don't bother you though, there's really a lot of good things about this visual novel. The voice acting was top-tier, big fan of all the actors' performances. The characters are extremely likeable, enough that I'm strongly considering the DLC just to see them them happy and in love for a little while longer. I quite like the art as well, everything and everyone looked very pretty LOL. Overall I do recommend this, I enjoyed it-- just be aware that if you're expecting a standard, vanilla, boy-meets-boy story, this is not that ROFL.
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April 2025
Let me tell you, I've never have a thing for aliens or tentacles, but the game warms you up to the idea very beautifully. Another surprising thing is, usually in these games you really don't care about the side character, but Juniper is a very cool character with depth, I'm glad she was on board. The "obvious" parts are also satisfying with voice overs, thank you to all VA's who took their job seriously. Recommended 100%. Now excuse me, I'm going to play the sequel :D
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The Symbiant is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Symbiant is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

The Symbiant received 723 positive votes out of a total of 749 achieving an impressive rating of 9.02.
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The Symbiant was developed and published by HeartCoreDev.

The Symbiant is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Symbiant is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

The Symbiant is playable and fully supported on Linux.

The Symbiant is a single-player game.

There are 5 DLCs available for The Symbiant. Explore additional content available for The Symbiant on Steam.

The Symbiant does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Symbiant does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Symbiant 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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Release 02 Feb 2023
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