Nova Hearts News

The first chapter Nova Hearts: The Spark will be officially playable for free on January 25, 4pm CET / 7am PST.



[h3]The full game will then be playable in 2025.[/h3]

In this first chapter, you play Luce, a positive and funny 21yo who loves being around her friends and helping others. You're back in this city you left some years ago. Discover more about your new life, new old friends, and powers!

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[h3]Support us, don’t forget to wishlist Nova Hearts![/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2506290/Nova_hearts/

We can't wait to know what you think of the game, its characters and soul!

[h3]The cool kids are here![/h3]
Luce is coming back to Vermillion after a while. She's meeting with Will and CJ, her long-time friends. As she starts remembering her life there, everything seems to have changed. But she's well accompanied and always gets support from her two besties.


[h3]You play Luce, the main character of Nova Hearts[/h3]
Luce just left university. She needs to take time for herself to find who she really is. And you're here to help her!


[h3]Get to know Will and CJ, opposites who love each other very much![/h3]
They are this iconic duo of friends who always know how to make fun of a situation and who love gossiping!


[h3]Learn to know more about Will and CJ, become their best friend or even more... It's up to you to decide![/h3]

The first chapter Nova Hearts - The Spark will be playable in a couple of days, wishlist the game to receive all the news!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2506290/Nova_Hearts/

[h3]Dear players,[/h3]

We would like to inform you that the free first chapter "Nova Hearts - The Spark" will be postponed from its initial launch on January 17, 2024. The release date is moved by a few days. The first chapter, downloadable for free, will be officially playable end of January.

One of our core values is to be transparent and to make honest communications. We want your game experience to be the best possible and believe that postponing its release is the best decision we can make.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and are pleased to see that so many of you are excited to play the game. We ask you for some patience and thank you for your understanding.

The Lightbulb Crew team

After three years of development, we’re proud to announce our new game Nova Hearts!

A mysterious force of power transforms you and other highly attractive people in your area into superheroes and villains! TEXT, DATE and FIGHT your friends and enemies alike.

Do you like Sailor Moon? Texting, dating and fighting? Then Nova Hearts is the game for you!
[h3]First Chapter "Nova Hearts: The Spark" available for free on January 17th, 2024.[/h3]

Then, the full game will be available in Summer of 2024.

[previewyoutube]https://youtu.be/UFjAvu_0_jw[/previewyoutube]
[h3]Support us, don’t forget to wishlist Nova Hearts![/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2506290/Nova_hearts/

Join our Discord to chat with us and other players! https://discord.gg/UrbUgkVrMj

- Lightbulb Crew devs

Othercide from French developer Lightbulb Crew is one of my favourite recent tactics RPGs. It's an atmospheric and rewardingly meticulous experience that typically pits you against overwhelming numbers, where victory comes about by carefully exploiting reaction abilities, positioning your troop of weary warriors just-so, and manipulating the initiative bar. At times, for me, it's up there with Into The Breach.

But I do acknowledge that it's an acquired taste, not least because the narrative and extra-dimensional setting are relentlessly unpleasant - a terrible soup of mother metaphors and Penny Dreadful imagery, in which you pit clones against Silent Hill monsters, then liquefy the survivors to spawn new characters. What's the appropriate way to follow up a game like that? Ah yes, with an episodic dating sim.

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