Others - Heavy Hearts [v0.6.5 Hotfix 3] [Dammitbird]

Written based on the version 0.6 Hotfix 3

I want to like this game.

The setting is good enough, the main character is good enough, the story is good enough, and yet this game is still bad due to one reason: The developer seems to have forgotten that this is a PORN game.

I know they want to make a proper full game with porn in it, but the scenes we get with each update are more and more lackluster. Not only that but the dev seems to keep changing the game genre with each few levels, and NEVER manages to make one that stands out for its quality.

At this point the game is a confusing and convoluted mess that is either boring or frustrating to play, and frankly not worth going through just to access the scenes.

I do actually love this game and come back to it every major update to see what's new, but that's really only due to the art and animations.

Whoever is working on the programming in this game, please replace them with someone who actually can do programming. Almost every element of the game is buggy and is prone to breaking, such as the pause menu, the combat, general interactions... the list goes on. This game feels as unstable as it is sloppy and I never know whether I'm messing something up, something is unfinished, or the game is just falling apart behind the scenes.

The thing is, it's all a pretty basic gameplay experience that shouldn't really have these problems. A top-down rpg that just has you going around talking to characters and watching cutscenes? You barely need to have anything functioning there, yet here it's entirely in shambles. I'm sure that out-of-the-box RPG engines already take care of this stuff for you; and even making this stuff from scratch could be done pretty solidly in a few days work. As for the combat side, I have no idea what's going on half of the time as the UI is pretty confusing and the action can look extremely messy. I appreciate that it at least went for something original here, but it needs to be cleaned up.

It's a shame to complain about because I think the world built here is pretty interesting, and I actually think the art and animations are top-tier, relative to all of the adult games I've played. I love Luccia's design, and the scenarios her and her friends find themselves in never fail to impress me.

My advice would be to actually simplify and streamline the gameplay in between sex scenes, and make sure that it's polished to perfection. The fact that such a simple gameplay loop could be so broken that it harms the experience should mean that fixing this game at its foundations is a top priority for the next major update. All the pieces to one of the best adult games are already here, but they're being heavily weighed down by the broken foundation they're placed upon.

Also, as a relative nit-pick, please sort out the grammar. It's attrocious at times; there's no excuse in 2025, with both Google and AI, that you can still confuse "your" and "you're". I don't mind the goofy and, at times, immersion-breaking writing, but like with the gameplay, make sure that the vehicle it's carried upon is polished.

I really enjoyed the setting of this game—it has a lot of potential, and I can see it becoming something truly great with further development. The world-building is interesting enough. The mechanics are solid enough.

However, while the foundation is strong, the game still feels like it needs more content to feel fully fleshed out. Whether it’s additional story elements, more gameplay features, or enhanced mechanics, I hope the developers continue expanding on what’s already a great start. The pacing of updates will be key to keeping players invested, and I’d love to see more frequent content drops to maintain excitement.

That said, I’m giving this game five stars for its potential. It has the framework of something that could become an incredible experience, and I hope the team keeps up the good work. With more polish and additional content, I can see this becoming a good title. I’ll be keeping an eye on its progress and look forward to revisiting it for a more complete review in the future!

The game explicitly tells you losing won't get you H scenes. Instead, they're scattered about as rewards for progression.

There is a gallery mode, but it's cumbersome to get to. Progression is slow, and the scenes are somewhat lackluster.

I do think this has some strong potential, it just mainly needs more content to make the grind worth it.

Game's extremely fun. The sex scenes are extremely hot and the combat is really intuitive and fun. The overworld exploration is also a really nice touch. Everything is extremely simple and the hints that are given through dialogue are actually extremely helpful and keep you on track. Looking forward to seeing this game develop in the future.

Gonna go against the grain since I think this game's rating is far too low for how good it is. The gameplay is unique, some if it is very enjoyable, some of it is a little tiring (stealth mechanics resulting in a gameover, when you can only save in certain spots), but overall decent. The art is absolutely top notch though. There is a lovely mix of pixel art scenes and 2dcd, and both are drawn very well and are a good length. And they are incredibly hot, both in art and writing! The writing is also far better than I have come to expect from porn games. The game surely isn't perfect, but by porn game standards, is an absolute gem. There are so many games with the same re-used models and shitty grinding mechanics to artificially lengthen the game that are rated higher than this game - that seems straight up wrong to me. So hopefully I can help balance this a little bit, as I enjoyed it very much.

This is a painful game to play, mostly because I don't think much thought was put into its creation before it was started. It is very hard to create a good game that is popular because it is fun to play AND have porn in it to jack off to. The separation hurts this game so badly it is almost unplayable. It takes forever to get to the porn and it is so few and far between the story and combat, which isn't terrible but I don't play porn games to level up, I play them to see tits! Which brings me to the worst crime of all, the fact that the art and animation is EXCELLENT! It doesn't take a genius to see that this games art is its main selling point but it's so hard to get to it that it feels like the dev is trying to get you to quit before you see it, testing how far you'll grind to see one scene.
Un-skippable intro.

The story is good but sometimes it moves too quickly for my taste. The corruption could happen a bit more slowly. Also, the main character looks too milfy for me. I can't understand this fetish with absolutely unnatural breasts. People with such large breasts have health issues and don't go around wielding swords, and no one exaggerates with penises longer than their legs. So why there? Well, that's how it is, but the story makes up for it in many ways.

0.55

this game is extremely unsatisfying to play.

dev clearly spent a lot of time on it. and art can clearly be quite good. yet it's one of the most boring games i've ever played.

first of all first couple of sex scenes are just "dreams" and lots of text. boring. A game is already an imaginary scenario, what use is there to fill it with even more imaginary scenarios within the game. bad game design.

lots of text already makes it bad. if the art can be this good, then use it.

maps have coins to collect and scenes to collect... no connection to anything. it would have been fine like 30years ago. even by those standards this game would be considered slow. those coins are there just so you can "collect something" for no reason. because "that's what people like". no thought about it whatsoever besides that.

gameplay is so bad. fight is decent, yet first couple of hours it's boring. too long tutorial, too much explanation, too many text, and then you cant even fight because you have to "hide" from orcs. no H-scene if you get caught, no H-scene if you lose any fight.

it's just such a bad game design. of and if orc finds you then you start level from scratch unless you use Save function.

another tragedy is save places are limited. limited saves already gets -2 for rating for ANY game. this deserves it even more. because it's not enough that saves are rare, there are only 5 save slots... and ofc no gallery. so if you wanna see a sex scene again... well good luck, first of all there won't be a save nearby, second you won't have enough slots.

it's just such a garbage game design. what use is to limit saves, what use is to limit to 5 saves. it's like dev wanted to make the game bad on purpose. to get the "retro feeling". well it's not retro feeling, it's "this game is ass" feeling. retro games had something going for them, like dynamic or some interesting/new concept. this doesn't have anything going for it except the nice art.... which most of the time are just hallucinations and most sex scenes are text only. so it's an especially garbage game.

The art is great. The few fully animated scenes that exist are likewise great, very nut-bust-worthy. Story is good. Combat is straightforward, but fine. My rating is primarily concerned with nut-bust-worthiness. Pixel scenes are decent, but few and far between. Kinda buggy but reloading is faster than the time it takes for my boner to deflate so its a non-issue for me.

This game is borderline. There is good content here but it's held back by it's foundation.
I don't know what game engine this is but it's not helping this games cause. My first impressions is I am dealing with a game that is clearly optimized for a controller so only using a keyboard is punishment enough.

The lack of UI means I find myself randomly pressing buttons trying to relearn the tutorial (Apparently Q is a cheat button btw) and hopefully find things like the gallery or changing your weapons elemental damage.

The combat isn't bad per say but its busy and becomes a chore. The lack of game over content is disappointing given the illusions given in the dialogue of what will happen to you if you fail to defeat your enemies.

I found the story at least up to just past the Orc camp solid enough for an adult game. I didn't get past that because of critical gameplay failures.

First off you are told that you unlock scenes that can be viewed at your cabin just off of the starting area. Outside cabin there is an unrelated memory stone. Inside there is another unrelated memory stone and a save point. That is it.

In a game that is limited in its adult content at least being able to replay what I have done and even potentially see what scenes I might have missed so I can get an idea of how much content there is to begin with is essential. So telling me that there is a gallery and not providing it in the game world and not even accessible from the main menu is a critical failure on the devs part.

Since this game is not done yet it will be replayed a great many times so again you need the gallery to drive interest. This game thread dates from late 2021 so we over 2 years into development and a basic feature appears to be missing, this is unacceptable.

The art is good in most respects though there is a rather severe disconnect between the size of the orcs in game verses the animations where they are basically human sized, maybe a bit on the larger end of the spectrum but not by much and not matching their stature seen elsewhere.

I want to like this game but a bad engine choice that you are left to fight and missing critical features is just too much. The limited auto skip of dialog is worth mentioning but there are bigger issues at hand and I would wrap it in with the poor game engine choice.

Good game design.
Unbalanced and unnecessarily complex combat battles.
In stealth missions, the actual area of visibility of enemies does not always correspond to the drawn one.
The control buttons sometimes work in an incomprehensible way, as a result of which the character begins to use a taunt instead of charging a strong attack, or the charging animation begins, but immediately switches to another action.
Sometimes, in order for the magic attack button to work, you have to press the button to simply attack an enemy who is impervious to sword attacks.
But the worst thing is the unwindable dialogues. Imagine starting a mission, watching the dialogue, then losing the battle and having to watch all the dialogue again.

I think the game had potential but it needs a serious rework of the gameplay as it is simply not fun. It is actually tiring to play.

Good

- Art - The artstyle is enjoyable. It's nice, works for the game and works well for the scenes.

- Scenes - Not many but what is there is good. In particular the scene where the orc dicks the MC down was really hot. But my overriding thought is well why is there not more of it. The game is actually better at the lewd part than the gameplay part yet the focus is clearly the latter.

- The MC - Don't expect anything too deep but I was expecting your typical oh a penis oh my god why is it hard I am been corrupted!! Kinda character. She isn't that, she likes sex but isn't jumping on everything she sees either.

- Effort - While I may not like the game I feel it needs pointing out a lot of effort was definitely put into this by the dev. The dev was not remotely lazy I just feel the execution is not here.

Bad

- Gameplay - It's obnoxious in virtually every respect. There is no where near enough guidance on where to get things. Get these feathers, get this thing to get Orcasaurus ok great fucking where and how game? The combat isn't exciting and sits in that uncomfortable place of either been too easy or too annoying. It doesn't help the combat is built around mashing and blocking but it rarely feels worthwhile blocking. The game is not great at telling you what you need to know. Honestly it just flat out isn't fun to play.

- Stealth - Could roll into gameplay but feel this is a separate negative all of it's own. The game controls awkwardly as it is. Instant fail stealth sections where the enemy vision can go weird are just fucking no.

- Dialogue - Look I don't mind dialogue even in a non VN. But going through dialogue here feels slow and it feels stilted. That's usually a dev that's not a native speaker in fairness but still the dialogue isn't great.

- Sprite Scenes - Never been a fan of this. There's scenes with some such as slimes and a friend that are done with the on map sprites. Just make proper scenes from them especially since there's so few anyway. It's the lewd game equivalent of rubbing barbie dolls together.

- Skip - It really needs one. If any game potentially has you going back to something you've completed a skip should be there.

- Story - It's not coherent and I'm not really sure what it's going for.

Overall

The game puts the focus on the very thing it's weakest at: gameplay. If I had to describe the game it's exhausting and the scenes while enjoyable were not worth it. Either the gameplay drastically needs to improve or the gameplay part needs to be scaled back and focus on the lewd. The gameplay isn't good and there's not enough lewd content so at the moment it's failing as a game, failing as porn and failing as a porn game.

TLDR- Poor and frustrating gameplay for little reward in scenes or story.

I didn't like it. I saw the art thumbnails and thought the art looked good so I'd give it a go. It didn't work out.

What's wrong with it? Gameplay.

• Loading times and unskippable intro videos. Geez, you'd think my computer was processing the genometric sequence of a new species with how long this takes, with no ability to enter/esc/x your way past it.
• The controls are a mess, even basic stuff like making the overworld "interact" button different from the in-battle "attack" button.
• I don't even know how to describe this...hit boxing I guess? There is a "mini-game" if you can call it that, where you need to avoid the field of vision of the enemy as you move around. Except the field of vision is messed up, a few times I'd be well outside the colored vision box of the enemy and they'd still shout "human!" and you'd get a game over. I mean well outside, not like I'm next to the cone and a pixel may be touching, I mean a good inch of space between me and the field cone and somehow it triggers.
• Battles. You're given commands for attack, magic, block, and taught that if you block at the right time you can avoid damage...but you never get a lead indication from the enemy when they might attack next. SO ultimately the battle is just mash attack until it dies.
• Battle bugs. The play ender for me was fighting a bird boss (after an annoying 20 minutes of mini-game play because of the aforementioned hit box bullshit), I kick his ass, have half my character's health, and my final hit to him results in some insta-counterattack which kills my character off and I get a game over.

Sorry, you lost me by the 2nd stage.

It feels like someone's school project that had some hentai content added to it later. I tried hard to give it a fair shot for 1 hour and it was actively unenjoyable. There's extremely little h-content and the gameplay is not fun.

Unless you don't mind a handful of scenes that are exhausting to get, don't bother until v1.0 (assuming that 10x's the amount of h content and game design improvements)

Updates come out quite often for a game with such art. The visual is great. A lot is taken from old school, which is a big plus for me personally. For those people who often play and love old school, it will not be difficult to get used to the gameplay. The efforts of the developer are visible immediately from the splash screen. The character is great too. Of course, there are points that would be worth working on, but I will not list them because many of them have already been mentioned here and I am sure that the developer paid attention. Personally, I always follow every update of this game and wish the developer success with this project. At first I wanted to give it a 4, but remembering the emotions caused by the game I give it a 5. Thank you for your work.

That's a couple of hours i'll never get back.

Art's allright, but damn that game is a bore fest.

Barely any sex content, alleged pregnancy (?) that don't occur at least in this build, no character development

combat is basically "spam block button for counters"

No dialogue skip ( which SUCK when youre forced to go through the same dialogues multiple times )

Rips off Super metroid ...

"Quests" and map designs seems bad

not sure how much better it can get considering that it,s already been going for 2 years ...

DammitBird: "Heavy Hearts is an action RPG, with lewd elements"

Heavy Hearts (0.4.2) is an action RPG not focused around the lewd elements, but incorporating them as integral to the plot. However, for a game so focused around combat, exploration, and RPG, there is very little to write home about.

The combat: Too simple, yet not easy. You can infuse your attacks with various elements, but most actions require energy that only passively regenerates during combat, rather than through abilities you can activate. As a result, you too often find yourself mashing the basic attack combo simply because you have no other options. And more disappointingly so, it is effective in a lot of cases - until it isn't, at which point it only turns frustrating.

The combat TLDR: Not rewarding at all, too simple, and oftentimes just frustrating.

The exploration: Classic RPGM movement and map design, but for now (0.4.2) it only feels like yet another RPGMaker game like so many others on this site - the potential is there, but clearly rushed and unfinished.

The story: I'm going to be honest here - I haven't gotten very far into whatever the current content offering is (0.4.2). I haven't even managed to reach the first real sex scene. And all of that is because of the combination of the frustratingly simple combat, the unrewarding exploration and most of all, the inexplicably terrible UI design (I literally have to strain my eyes to read in-game tooltips due to the choice of text font, as well as the inventory management being downright horrible). What is there is decent, but not ground-breaking.

Verdict: Can't recommend it unless you like overcoming bad combat mechanics to get to the sweet center of the hard candy that is Heavy Hearts. There is something here, but buried under a lot of bad decisions. Hopefuly it improves in areas that matter.

Playing v0.42 Hotfix 1

I've played up to the orc village and have decided to stop.

Gameplay - I actually died to the orc boss before the village since I wasn't blocking properly - decently balanced gameplay challenge awaits
That said the collectable items are so far useless, and the magic elemental system is trivial thus far - your bird friend tells you what to use so you use it.

Story - I sped through what there was, and it was fine.

H scenes - from what I've seen, fine and looking forward to more.

The main issues I see are mostly UI/QoL stuff.
If you mash through the story, after the first level you'll end up re-entering it and being unable to leave - you're forced to redo everything with no skip functionality.
The only options for sound are on and off - the music is way too loud.
You can't save anywhere except for the designated in-level spots which would be fine if you didn't have to watch all the cutscenes/skip through all the dialogue. Being able to at least save in the world map should be there too and I'm not sure why it's not.

TL;DR - could be a good game but suffers from poor ui/qol/gameplay design imo
Also there's not much pixel art in the game but what it has is good

I've played many nsfw games and I've never come across one as bad as this one, everything from controls to interface is horrible, pixel art is decent, but it seems that the creator did not want to try too hard and many enemies are just a png that move, seriously, I think I have played more fun NFT games than this thing.