This is the monthly update build for July 2026. This month I focused on the Throne Room of Muspelheim. This room will be your first interaction with Muus and will set the stage for the rest of the world. Story in this chapter is a lot more straight forward than in Animus so it's going to go fast. Most of my time spent in this world is in environment design and slapstick humor. It's so much easi…
This is the monthly update build for May 2026. Most of my work this month was doing implementation for some of the penguins and feeling out how they should interact. I really like how their language style came together and plan to expand this throughout the chapter. Known Issues · Russian language has not been updated past Fern/Rhode in Animus. · English is the only language past the Mossbacks.…
This is the monthly update build for April 2026. Most of my work this month was on fleshing out characters for Chapter 4 and making more content for the ARG. For those not interested in the ARG we have some penguin animations you can see below and while these little dudes are unnamed right now they have enough personality that I am making them into primary characters in Chapter 4. For ARG solve…
This is the monthly update build for March 2026. Worked on fleshing out a lot of the alternate routes for The Aspects encounter. There is a ton more I want to do here so I will be polishing it up off and on. We got a lot of new assets in for the first room in Muspelheim as well. Need to spend more time designing out the puzzle in this room as my idea for it just didn't work well. I may actually…
This is the monthly update build for February 2026. This one adds a ton of polish and new art to the final combat scene in Animus. It also sets up all of the components to work on new areas in Jotunheim. Next months update will be focusing on Muspelheim which is the lava area accessible by being more curious throughout your run and choosing the world on the right during world selection. I will…
This is the monthly update build for January 2026. It focuses on the final combat scene in Animus between Lore and The Aspects . Really excited to finish this off and get moving on Jotunheim soon. February will be the final month of Animus development and this chapter will be closed outside of bug fixes. Known Issues · Russian language has not been updated past Fern/Rhode in Animus. · English i…
This is the monthly update build for December. It focuses on setting up the final section of Animus and wrapping up all of the storylines in this region at once. The final component to build now is the fight scene between Lore and The Aspects . With this out of the way I can focus entirely on systems design and combat which is something I greatly enjoy. Looking forward to updating again in Janu…
This is the monthly update build for November. It focuses on adding storyline to The Picnic in the form of a number of routes for Shelly and Sheldon. As always, writing is the lions share of work left in the game. It takes time but I will keep releasing monthly updates until it is done. You can reach The Picnic by progressing through the Mossbacks storyline without killing them. If you're havin…
This is the monthly update build for October. It focuses on adding storyline to The Clash in the form of a number of routes for Sheldon. As always, writing is the lions share of work left in the game. It takes time but I will keep releasing monthly updates until it is done. You can reach The Clash by treating The Mossbacks terribly. If you're having trouble finding this section of the game reac…
This is the monthly update build for September. It focuses on adding storyline to The Clash in the form of a number of routes for Shelly. As always, writing is the lions share of work left in the game. It takes time but I will keep releasing monthly updates until it is done. You can reach The Clash by treating The Mossbacks terribly. If you're having trouble finding this section of the game rea…
This ones a bit late as I went on vacation for the first time in years. Hope you enjoy the new stuff! This is the monthly update build for August. It focuses on adding storyline to The Clash in the form of a number of routes for Avocado. As always, writing is the lions share of work left in the game. It takes time but I will keep releasing monthly updates until it is done. You can reach The Cla…
This is the monthly update build for July. it focuses on adding storyline to The Clash in the form of a number of routes for Fern. As always, writing is the lions share of work left in the game. It takes time but I will keep releasing monthly updates until it is done. You can reach The Clash by treating The Mossbacks terribly. If you're having trouble finding this section of the game reach out…
With this updated I polished the Emelio and Rhode interactions during The Clash section of the game. These previously had no facial expressions, contained missing dialogue, and the textboxes were all static. It's now much more emotionally impactful and feels correct. Next update will be Fern's entire section for this part of the game. This room is the second to last for all of Animus so there i…
With this update I have added a number of routes for Rhode in The Clash section of the game. This area is accessible after The Mossbacks if you take a more negative route. If you need help reaching this location please contact me via the Discord ticketing system detailed under Bug Reporting. Known Issues · Russian language has not been updated past Fern/Rhode in Animus. · English is the only la…
Was going to drop the update the last week or so but a lot needed to be changed and I was very busy with our ferret rescue work. Thankfully I have everything written and implementation is a breeze so that's not going to be an issue. With that in mind here are all the routes in the upcoming patch. This is split into three primary trees and will branch out based on other choices. In total it's ar…
The next update should drop this week. I was going to launch this on the 1st but the dialogue with Rhode just didn't hit right. She previously didn't discuss any of the timelines in which you went to the Dark World and fought her. This made those routes feel incredibly disjointed and took the player completely out of the experience. I will be doing the implementation for this section live like…
With this update I am mostly looking for feedback on story direction for the end of Animus. If people find Emelio's actions here to be compelling then I will continue pushing this area until completion. Known Issues · Russian language has not been updated past Fern/Rhode in Animus. · English is the only language past the Mossbacks. · Facial expressions in Emelio's Clash scene are missing. · Som…
Had to take a year and focus on everything else as seen here: Going forward we're doing monthly update builds on the first of each month. These are going to be done on a separate build which you can read about below. These builds will be highly unstable at times so please put in bug reports. Depending on the severity of issues I will put out additional builds throughout the month. Anyway, have…
These patch notes are totally real. You can trust me. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Check out the daily streams on Twitch. You can now also watch on YouTube! Known Issues · There are no issues. New Content · Text has been removed from the game. We've replaced all of the text with cinematics. Each of these will be cut into quarters where each quadrant will be the days most popular TikTok video. We find that this…
Merry Christmas!!! This is the last bug-fix patch before a major content push. There was a ton wrong with our Steamdeck builds and this should resolve most of them. This was over 160 tickets of issues all drilled into a month and a half so we should be stable for the foreseeable future! If you're still having issues on Deck please make sure you're running the game at 60fps on the latest firmwar…
It's time for the Steam Awards again and this year Heartbound is up for the Labor of Love award! We've been updating Heartbound for a number of years now and I'm excited to get everything fully finished and out there next year. During this event we've put the game on sale for 20% off and I hope all of you new players have a blast. You can find the stream on Twitch or YouTube ! You can also join…
v 1.0.9.62 As always you can watch us build the game live on Twitch. Known Issues · RURU language has not been updated past Fern/Rhode in Animus. · Our translator lives in Moscow and cannot be paid due to the war. · Once we have a way of fixing this the RURU translation will move forward. New Content · Shelly has new talky animations. · Shelly has new standy animations. · Shelly's storyline has…
As always you can watch us build the game live on Twitch. Known Issues · RURU language has not been updated past Fern/Rhode in Animus. · Our translator lives in Moscow and cannot be paid due to the war. · Once we have a way of fixing this the RURU translation will move forward. New Content · Pending Valves review Heartbound should now be fully compatible with Steam Deck. I will put out an annou…
As always you can watch us build the game live on Twitch. Known Issues · RURU language has not been updated past Fern/Rhode in Animus. · Our translator lives in Moscow and cannot be paid due to the war. · Once we have a way of fixing this the RURU translation will move forward. New Content · Sheldons storyline has been finished and implemented. There are a few different routes here and it took…
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