HARTS ISLAND

HARTS ISLAND

ben lunato · 2020 · Indie, Adventure, First-Person, Walking Simulator, Exploration

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Mixed61% · 31
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About HARTS ISLAND

Harts Island is a short narrative walking simulator. Set on the beautiful horrific Harts island where more than one million Americans are buried. Find fragments of how one actor ended up as one of the nameless dead, explore temples and distant planets, piece together a fractured life.

  • Length one hour
  • A narrative driven dark poetic comedy.

Credits

  • design and direction ben lunato
  • game design and live performance George Howard
  • Luck Miller as David Stay
  • original soundtrack Nicholas Lowery
  • sound design ScottWaded
  • original soundtrack The Juke Bottle Casino
  • ending song by birdbath "death machine"

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jul 20, 2022
trash
6 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 29, 2025
[h3]Classic Walking Sim, just darker[/h3] A largely peaceful story although does contain a desperate narrator who swears a lot. [h3]Slow[/h3] The island is huge and you walk, slowly, and have to follow your ears and often find some high ground and try to spot the next landmark. A few people have instability or get stuck, for me no crashes, but it's pretty long and I'm only half way explored. [h3]Violent Theme[/h3] It's a memorial to people who either died violently or died in obscurity. It's also a warning about human failings and foibles. Very well composed soundtrack and sounds meet with the bare black and white traced graphics and that curiosity that keeps drawing you onwards. [h3]Avoid if swearing offends you[/h3[ For a cheap game, it's worth the time it will kill. But the subject material is serious and is delivered in a way that pulls no punches. I'm going to place it alongside these similar games https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41773079-EmpathyGames/list/91748/
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 19, 2023
Where do I even begin. This is a game that drags itself out at excruciating length. It's a hour long game where for 10 minutes you will be somewhat entertained and the other time you will be holding the W key as stock ambiance blares in your ears. There are no sliders for audio leaving the sound poorly balanced, which hinders the game's ONLY narrative and intrigue. All the while it's filled with faulty collision, copy and paste models that are poorly rendered, and a couple areas to simply soft lock leaving you to do it ALL over again with its lack of save function. But no worries, you then get the pleasure of holding W all over again.
Recommended Mar 28, 2023
This is a very rich and interesting experience visually, it is definitely worth playing through until some of the more wild graphical shifts near the end. The monologues were not my favorite, but the soundscapes and music are amazing and disorienting. Excellent experience for those with more avant-garde sensibilities.
Not recommended Oct 16, 2022
Looks nothing like the Bronx, I don't get it.
Recommended Jan 12, 2022
The main character curses more than Samuel L. Jackson and I have no idea what's going on.

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