Vengeful Heart

Vengeful Heart

Salmon Snake Games · 2020 · Cyberpunk, Visual Novel, Pixel Graphics, Dystopian , Female Protagonist

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About Vengeful Heart


Set long after humanity has polluted this planet, groundwater is undrinkable and seeing a living plant is considered a luxury. Most people live in megacities that rely on the labor of poor masses to sustain a modern standard of living for the few at the top. With most of the earth scorched, water is regarded as liquid gold and the control of it is the truest form of power. Forced to cope with a permanent water shortage, ordinary people persist and toil on the hope that if they work hard enough, they too can someday swim every morning in the refreshing pools of the Gardens.

We follow the story of Josephine Lace, a young hydraulic engineer eager to climb the corporate ladder and claim a spot at the top. Until the day when that promising future is ripped away from her, leaving her half-dead and homeless, she becomes hellbent on taking down the system that ruined her and left her without a heart. Along the way she meets a diverse group of people sympathetic to her cause, every one with secrets of their own. With their help, she seeks redemption, love and most of all vengeance.
  • Story rich in social commentary with both grim and humoristic undertones
  • Synthwave soundtrack that makes you nostalgic for the time that never was
  • Art reminiscent of PC-98 with a personal touch
  • Two possible branches with wildly different outcomes

Experience the retro futuristic world of Vengeful Heart and unleash your revenge with style in this tale of capitalism, companionship and cyberpunk!

Design/Programming/Character Art/UI Art/Marketing --- Hanuli
Story --- Elmo Mustonen
Background Art --- Dmitry Petyakin (@ElMetallico1)
Music --- D.Ray, Dzod, Zodik, Bogart VGM, Sequel Police, Electronic Senses, blue_moon, The Cynic Project
Editing --- Jessica M. Chavez
Logo --- erikoillustrations
Trailers --- KotoriWorks

What Steam players say

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

Not recommended Jun 6, 2024
It's so tremendously stupid. Bloody and boring. Painfull to read. Protagonist erratic. Tenders are wusses. The story trivial. The world unhinged. And everyone braindead. There are some good marks, but they lose on point.
8 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 14, 2025
Vengeful Heart is a game that will unveil your activism side. If I were in charge of something, I would make it mandatory for people to play this game. Half joke aside, I still believe people should learn how they should be striving to fight for their basic human rights. Strong shelter, healthy foods, healthcare, safe transport, all of these and more should be affordable and easily attainable to everyone to live a productive and happy life. I'm sure we can agree on this. Yes, well, now imagine if water costs more than you rent. Do you feel angry, confused, shocked or all of the above? Well, this is where you need to play Vengeful Heart to find out how people fight and stick it up to the corporation that tries to take it away from them. There are a lot of powerful moments in this game that resonate with me. The music doesn't help stop me from going to tears, I was already on my knees from the brutality of the first chapter. I'm surprised how graphically gruesome the texts were when displaying action, despite not showing all of them visually, I can still imagine how it happened, even when I don't want to. I love the colour palette choice. It gives you a tinted, comforting feel, hi…
4 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 2, 2024
technically i have complex thoughts about why i like this game but its cool and it looks cool and sounds cool and u should check it out <3
4 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 11, 2024
my first (mostly) kinetic novel and honestly I'm not sure I'm really into it as a medium, but like, still: vengeful heart rocks the best element is the writing. it tackles topics that are huge, and it executes on them so well because it keeps them grounded—either in the characters or the surprisingly detailed world building the characters in particular are great. all of them matter so much to both the immediate plot, and to the broader themes of the stories. the writing consistently takes great care in treating them as complex people, even unnamed characters who don't get their own sprite. amidst the mobs, the crowds, the boardrooms is a persistent reminder that these groups are still made up of individuals, and that matters despite the story's scale the visual and musical art direction is sublime. even as experiencing this story got super (appropriately) dark and dismal, the aesthetic experience kept me focused and going. and like, none of us get to really choose our hellscapes, but if the one I'm assigned could develop this color palette, I would be into it I initially had mixed feelings about the main crossroads moment in the experience, and though not all of them are resolv…
4 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 12, 2023
fantastic read. love that the most stressful and nailbiting game i've played in a long while is an almost entirely kinetic novel.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 30, 2026
It is very good. Lovely pixel art graphics and honest representation of unfettered and unregulated capitalism that Republicans in the US are trying their l damndest to bring about. The elite class vs. the peasants who will have nothing and like it.
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