Heartbound News

If you guys have any worries about the early access or any questions for us as developers you can always ask here or on the discord. We don't have a wall in front of us and I'm always willing to talk about stuff.

We're not worried about losing hype going forward and we're not planning on making small incremental patches other than for bug fixes. We work on Heartbound 10 hours a day 7 days a week live on Twitch. Every day, all day. Outside of that we make secret additions, boss fights, and storyline spoilery stuff off-stream. Early Access let's us get feedback on that pile of work, fix bugs, and move forward with development.

Episodic content in the gaming industry is generally pretty gross. Paying for additional episodes is both lame for players and lame for us. So we're not charging anything for the rest of the chapters. Ever. Heartbound will have no DLC outside of the OST and will never have a sequel.

In terms of production speed and when additional chapters will be added. All of the environments for Chapter 3 are finished. If you ever want to see them come chat on stream and let me know. I show them off pretty regularly.

Yes you will have to wait for us to finish each chapter.
No you won't ever have to pay another cent for the game.
No it won't take 6 months to release Chapter 3 after The Tower launches.

If you're still concerned about any of these points after this please come talk to us. We're always online and always open to discussion.

Discord:
https://discord.gg/piratesoftware

In December we will be launching the next chapter of Heartbound and releasing the game into Early Access on Steam. New characters, new world to explore, even more advanced sadness. 🖤❤️

From there we will be putting out the rest of the game as additional free chapters. Each time we finish a chapter we'll make an announcement, update the OST with more songs, and launch it all.

You will NEVER need to pay for one of these updates. Once you buy Heartbound you get all of the updates until we finish the game. If you pre-ordered from our site you already have a Steam key so you're good to go.

You can also follow along with development on our daily 10 hour Twitch streams. We stream from 12pm-10pm PST every day of the week!

Also, join us on Discord and chat any time!

Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/gopiratesoftware

Discord:
http://discord.gg/PirateSoftware

• Multiple new worlds to explore.
  
• Tons of new endings based on your choices and path.
  
• New music to jam to during your adventure.
  
• Even more advanced sadness.
  

• Brazilian Portuguese has had a major rework.
  
• Russian has had a major rework.
  
• Classical French is now available.
  
• Spanish (Mexico) is now available.
  

• Major overhaul of the Audio system cutting CPU needs by 65%
  
• Major overhaul of the Draw system cutting CPU needs by 30%
  

• Good luck!
  

• Massive performance update.
  
• Faster collision checking.
  
• Ordered and separated texture pages.
  
• Better performance for all graphics.
  

• Minor Russian language fixes.
  

• Good luck!
  

In our haste to update the game we missed a major issue that negatively impacted a number of endings for the Demo. This has now been fixed in Patch 1.15.1 which we just released. Sorry for the issues!