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 just drop having a puzzle here and make it an introduction to some of the Penguin faction characters. I've added some screenshots of the assets in that room to give you guys an idea of the general style of the new chapter. It's heavily inspired by Act 1 of Secret of Evermore if you're familiar with that game.
- Russian language has not been updated past Fern/Rhode in Animus.
- English is the only language past the Mossbacks.
Known Issues
- Steam has added support for Purchasing Power Conversion for steam game prices. This changes the price of the game for regions other than the US to something that makes sense based on the purchasing power of your currency rather than just direct exchange rates. This is something I have been passionate about for a super long time and I love that Steam is now supporting this.
- The prices for both Heartbound and the OST were set manually previously. I did a lot of research for different regions to determine what a good cost was. This included looking at average cost of living in that region, talking to people who lived there about normal levels of income, and then determining a proper price based on what they could have left over for entertainment. With this new feature Steam handles ALL of that for me and you end up getting the game for cheaper in every single region. I could only focus on a few regions previously because of the amount of work involved. Now nobody gets left behind.
Pricing Changes
- Combat with The Aspects has been updated with new dialogue.
- Dialogue lines for Emelio added in The Aspects encounter.
- Dialogue lines for Rhode added in The Aspects encounter.
- Dialogue lines for Fern added in The Aspects encounter.
- Dialogue lines for Avocado added in The Aspects encounter.
- Dialogue lines for Shelly added in The Aspects encounter.
- Dialogue lines for Sheldon added in The Aspects encounter.
- Distorted Talky animation added for Avocado.
- Distorted Talky animation added for Shelly.
- Distorted Talky animation added for Sheldon.
- Alternate timeline paths added for The Aspects encounter.
- Shelly can now give you a treat that shows up in your room in a cursed timeline.
- Shelly now reacts to whether or not you stole a treat in The Clash.
New Content
- Fixed a softlock with the The Aspects when you are on a completely Darksider route.
- Minor typo fixed with Avocado in The Clash.
Bug Fixes
- Please report any issues on our official Discord at https://discord.gg/piratesoftware
- There is a channel called #heartbound-ticket where you can report stuff!
- Include a screenshot, it makes things much easier to fix!
Bug Reporting
- Muspelheim introductions.
- The Aspects encounter polish.
Upcoming Content
More from Heartbound
Other announcements
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