Amidst Hearts

Amidst Hearts is an Adult, Adventure, Visual Novel game for PC published by Amidst Hearts in 2024. Experience a lovely story.Picture a cozy suburban home where each character has their own space.The family shares common areas, creating a wonderful sense of togetherness. “AH:OAF” delves into themes of love, support, and the evolving relationships within this unique family structure as they navigate the complexities of adulthood. Imagine you’ve just turned 18 and have been kicked out of your home.Amidst the challenges of hunger and poverty, a resplendent creature emerges from the darkness and offers you a new life with her. The decision is solely yours, and it entails stepping into a completely new world, surrounded by a wonderful, soon-to-be harem.

Features:

Unique family structure: Amidst Hearts: One Amongst Five delves into the themes of love, support, and evolving relationships within a unique family structure, creating a sense of togetherness.

Choose your own adventure: The app offers the opportunity to make decisions that shape the storyline, such as deciding to start a new life with a resplendent creature.

Immersive world: By stepping into a new world, users can explore a completely different setting with a soon-to-be harem, providing a captivating and immersive experience.

Early development stage: While the app is in its early development stage, it already showcases the creativity and passion of the creator, who aspires to become a skilled Ren'Py creator.

Visual novel format: The app is presented in the format of visual novels, which are close to the heart of the creator, ensuring an engaging and interactive storytelling experience.

Future updates: The creator plans to release updates with NSFW content, offering a glimpse into the potential future of the app and providing additional content to users.

Highlights:

Branching Narratives: Make choices that significantly impact your relationships and the storyline, allowing for multiple endings based on your decisions.

Character Development: Interact with a rich cast of characters, each with unique backgrounds, skills, and emotional arcs that evolve throughout the game.

Exploration Mechanics: Discover various locations and secrets within the world, enhancing your experience and uncovering hidden storylines.

Stunning Visuals: Immerse yourself in beautifully crafted art that brings the characters and their environments to life, enhancing the emotional depth of the narrative.

Original Soundtrack: Enjoy a unique musical score that complements the atmosphere and themes of the game, enriching your journey.

Customization Options: Tailor your character's personality and appearance, allowing for a more personal connection to the story.

Changelog:

What's happened in the project?

Albedo's AI/TTS voice has been removed: I tried finding a "decent" middle ground to not having VAs right now but it came out as a general consensus that it was everything but fitting, so it is my duty to hear your beautiful opinions.

Both scenes are now fully playable: While Takahashi's scene plays after completing Olivia's one it is only temporary and a mistake on my behalf, this will be fixed shortly.

The big return of animated character Sprites: While the focus was generally on adding scenes it is now time to also add way more dialogues and interactions with the characters, I'm feeling more comfortable with being able to animate in a more efficient manner. (In game quality of said animations to come also improved by a lot, Taka's the first example of that).

Takahashi Sports Outfit Sprite:

Devil Olivia: Introducing Olivia's insatiable lust through her other personality that has been repressed for far too long.. it's all starting to catch up to her! ;p (more on that as the game progresses)

Future Goals/Planning

Shape up a more coherent story with a real narrative to enforce a real sense of progression.

Add dialogues, interractions, and scenes.

Get the house, beach and takahashi store locations fully set in before implementing the super complex University location.

Slowly introduce new characters (including STW events winners).

[Feedback is crucial for us to grow, do not hesitate to get in touch with us through our Discord Server!]

When is this going live?

Already live for Patrons / 10th of January at 23:00 UTC+1 for the public

Patreon Membership Discounts?

To celebrate this year coming to an end, you will be able to enjoy discounts if you wish to support us.

Reviews:

Is the art for this game hand-drawn, or AI? it looks like AI but the dimensions are just so perfect. If they are hand-drawn, I wish i could draw as good as you. I wish to be able to one day so i can create games like this.

I really love the art style! Crazy that it is both though. The way you did this is just amazing. Please continue to make more amazing games like this one! Thank you, and also take care!

Did you create animations for the characters while they are still? Idk if I'm dreaming but I remember from the last patch that during conversations the characters did not move at all, now they do, at least some of them. For example after the scene with Olivia the characters don't move anymore. 

ngl having a simple customization to your own character, like skin color, should be a great addition to the game. I know it would take long to recolor every scene and such, and the fact that visual novels don't usually have customization like that, but it would be cool. 

Final words:

The protagonist of the game is a guy who is little familiar with the concepts of happiness and tranquility. His whole life was spent surrounded by those who dreamed of getting rid of him. The passage of the eighteen-year mark contributed to the relatives’ turning the hero out of the door forever. The young man might have despaired if not for a lucky chance. A chance circumstance introduces him to a mysterious person who offers to say goodbye to his unhappy existence forever. The hero agrees and dives into the whirlpool of events developing in the underground world.There he must take on the role of influencing fate and making important decisions. The goal is to assemble a harem of spectacular blondes, liberated brunettes and depraved redheads. In total, there are five female heroines in the novel who will gladly join the ranks of concubines. However, before this you will have to devote time to conversational and personal communication. The author has collected really attractive beauties with curvy figures and cute faces. The game has prepared a large-scale walkthrough, filled with passionate caresses and piquant details.