Note: I don't believe a complex opinion can be properly represented by a number but I do understand some people are impatient so I don't use the star system normally, my ratings are as follows. 1 don't recommend, 3 unsure please read review, 5 recommend.
Heart Problems might have some of the best 3D animations on this site, very fluid, very striking and soft looking, The artist (who i assume is the dev) is very talented. Most of my opinions are neutral, some are negative so I wanted to start with a big positive.
At the time of writing the game is tagged with "abandoned" but the community seems certain this is inaccurate as it's happened before, the dev is just a poor communicator and takes a long time between updates. Now that's a negative but why specifically it's a negative will be made clear further down.
Here is the problem with Heart Problems boiled down and condensed for the uninitiated, there are 5 women you can sexually interact with in this game, your aunt(Amelie), her eldest(Kylee) and youngest daughters(Stephanie), your friend(Mia) and her mom(Lauren). Throughout the 9 chapters of this story you fuck 3 of them, Mia, Lauren, and Kylee. The other 2 Amelie and Steph are effectively being held for ransom, to the point of genuine absurdity. They are the carrots on the end of the stick the developer is dangling to keep you coming back.
The story of this game is weird, you almost accidentally fuck your cousin so you get kicked out of the house and sent to an apartment to live but that only lasts like a day or something because your aunt comes and saves you and her marriage is falling apart and the younger one wants to fuck you, it's kind of a mess, and to be honest with you I've played through this a few times with updates to make the gallery accessible and I have started to just skip through because the dialogue becomes retarded after like the 9th time your aunt says you can't fuck her but you can do literally every other sexual act besides penetrative sex. The mental Gymnastics it takes to be playing a man who is desperately trying literally anything he possibly can to fuck his aunt convincing her to suck him off regularly and dry hump every time they're alone, who at the same exact time is trying to convince himself not to fuck his younger cousin who is THROWING herself at the MC, straight up molests him like 4 times, sucks him off all the fucking time, is Olympic platnium level, I had to introduce a whole new fucking metal to the equation because golds too low!! It is genuinely exhausting and it doesn't make any sense either, you cannot orgasm from a man rubbing his penis on your vagina and claim you haven't crossed a line or aren't cheating it's too fucking late at that point just fuck.
When I say they're being held hostage this is what I mean, Amelie and Steph are clearly the fan favorites and for reasons unknown to me the developer is dragging out the foreplay for as long as possible. It creates a frustrating blueball like experience where I'm skipping through scenes just trying to see if he finally fucks ONE of them, he never does so it ends up being a shit experience where I'm stuck at the top of a roller coaster and they refuse to let me go down.
This is why the dev being a shit communicator and taking forever between updates is a negative where it would normally be neutral. If you take 10 months between updates but the new update has tons of content and feels worth the wait then we're chillin. You should communicate better, hit me with the once a month "hey I'm alive working on the game here's a blurry phone picture of a thing I'm working on, see ya" I'd be happy with that. But to take 5 months to deliver the same content you delivered last patch but with minor dialogue and setting changes, fuck off.
It’s a Visual Novel game with chapters instead of updates so that means it’s a poorly written book with top notch animation and a cyclical and repetitive structure that makes you want to die. Don’t worry though I’m sure after chapter 5 when the 10th almost sex scene hits you’ll probably start skipping around like me. There is also no game play, I talk a lot about how I don’t like a lot of game play in my porn games because it distracts from the porn, but there should still be SOME game play. You could argue that the choices you make throughout the game are game play as they would be in other visual novels but you’re wrong. In other games the story branches, you make choices to follow certain branches, you’ll know which branch you followed because it will have a different ending, the game play is following the branches and getting all the endings. In this game every choice is the right answer or the wrong answer. The game might “end” if you make the wrong choices but that’s fake, it’s not an ending you aren’t gonna stop playing now it’s just a fail state, go back and make the correct choice dumbass. It’s not a game, it’s a picture book designed to blueball you.
In conclusion right here, right now I do not recommend this game. The never ending blue balling and the annoying ass narrative mean I can’t right now. But I am a sucker for good art so in the event that chapter 10 comes out and the MC finally fucks those carrots I will revisit and update my review. I’m by no means saying I’ll recommend it then but I’ll at least have some catharsis and wont that be nice.