Shivering Hearts
Mischa · 2020 · Choose Your Own Adventure, CRPG, JRPG, Casual, Interactive Fiction
PC
Positive100% · 11
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About Shivering Hearts
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Explore a unique fantasy setting with your childhood friend, Rin, and uncover what ills are plaguing the village of Shivering Hearts.
Become enraptured by a colourful cast of characters and experience beauty, heart-ache, romance, death, hope, nihilism, betrayal, regret, loss, and maybe even help someone on the verge of complete mental collapse.
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Check out the free demo above for an exclusive ending! I believe demos are great for people to try out an experience and see if it resonates with them without committing to a price point.
Over the past 9 months, I created Shivering Hearts by myself with RPG Maker MV in my free time to show my artistic skills. I also wanted to create something that brings back the magic that I sorely miss from old school 1990s PC RPGs like Baldur's Gate 2, Fallout 1, 2, and Planescape; Torment. CLANNAD, Undertale, LISA: the Painful RPG, and Oneshot were also huge influences.
Role Playing Games can be so much more than combat, stats, character builds and optimal play (however, I still value these game design aspects very, very much). I wanted to challenge myself to see if I can still create an engaging experience that doesn't have combat or leveling mechanics, within a 1 month period. That turned into 10 months. I wanted to make a game with deep conversation trees, memorable characters and an emotionally touching story. RPG Maker MV allowed me to create and bug-test very intricate dialogue trees that match the quality and scale of those older titles but at the fraction of the development time and with plenty of polish. I hope that I have done those games justice.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1351820/extras/Demo_Gif_1.gif
Explore a unique fantasy setting with your childhood friend, Rin, and uncover what ills are plaguing the village of Shivering Hearts.
Become enraptured by a colourful cast of characters and experience beauty, heart-ache, romance, death, hope, nihilism, betrayal, regret, loss, and maybe even help someone on the verge of complete mental collapse.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1351820/extras/Mortal_Gif_2.gif
Features
- Beautifully detailed, hand-drawn watercolour landscapes and characters.
- An emotionally gripping story that reacts to your choices.
- Meet a cast of 17 characters, each with their own personalities, goals and dreams.
- The game is a complex web of intricate dialogue choices and cascading consequences. Almost every choice has unique dialogue and outcomes.
- No combat or leveling. This might seem strange to put as a "feature", but I don't want to misrepresent the experience as a typical RPG, even though I would love to design such mechanics
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Free Demo
Check out the free demo above for an exclusive ending! I believe demos are great for people to try out an experience and see if it resonates with them without committing to a price point.
Why I made this
Over the past 9 months, I created Shivering Hearts by myself with RPG Maker MV in my free time to show my artistic skills. I also wanted to create something that brings back the magic that I sorely miss from old school 1990s PC RPGs like Baldur's Gate 2, Fallout 1, 2, and Planescape; Torment. CLANNAD, Undertale, LISA: the Painful RPG, and Oneshot were also huge influences.
Role Playing Games can be so much more than combat, stats, character builds and optimal play (however, I still value these game design aspects very, very much). I wanted to challenge myself to see if I can still create an engaging experience that doesn't have combat or leveling mechanics, within a 1 month period. That turned into 10 months. I wanted to make a game with deep conversation trees, memorable characters and an emotionally touching story. RPG Maker MV allowed me to create and bug-test very intricate dialogue trees that match the quality and scale of those older titles but at the fraction of the development time and with plenty of polish. I hope that I have done those games justice.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1351820/extras/Demo_Gif_1.gif
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
RPG Maker strikes again! Shiverign Hearts is one of hundreds of low effort JRPGs spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." This differs in a couple of ways for your typical RPG Maker asset flip. The usual 2D retro pixel asset flipped "art" that infests most of these games has been replaced with watercolour art that is sometimes passable and sometimes very mediocre, high-school art class dropout level. Instead of the cringey high-school anime fan-fiction story, there's a mediocre high school anime-club dropout Choose Your Own Adventure that really will reduce the quality of your life if you try reading it. Like all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options. Resolution is locked and the game features 2D retro pixel art asset flips. All of this makes this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer.5 found this helpful
I loved the characters and the art style~ It was a lovely game :)3 found this helpful
Only game with catgirls that's not about catgirls 10/101 found this helpful
this game is absolutely beautiful. a really good choices matter game, if you like that style dont let the cute stuff fool you!1 found this helpful
I liked this one. The art style and color is refreshing, as is the watercolor look. My eyes never tired of looking at the maps or characters. The story is a blend of things, almost taking the rpg idea but making realistic outcomes for side characters and the like and how that would truly unfold. It's sweet that the village comes together if you do everything right. Again, give this one a go if you want something aesthetically different to what you're used to, but only if you have a good sense of humor. I laughed a lot with the cat on the cliff, my gosh. This is for the open minded for sure, lol.1 found this helpful
A short visual novel style rpg maker game about two adventurers who end up in a mysterious village. Per: -weird complex characters - multiple endings - funny as well as dark moments -good music, sound effects as well as artstyle Cons: -few pictures depicting the topics of conversation -little places to explore -lack of variety in gameplay
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