A downloadable game for Windows

Anode Heart is a monster taming RPG, inspired by Digimon and Playstation One era JRPGs, where you collect and raise "Tama", meet and recruit friends, as you piece together the story and the lore.

>> Get the game on Steam! <<

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The free demo is about 2 hours long. It represents about ~5-10% of the full game. 

If you have any feedback or you encounter any problems or bugs, comment below or ask in Discord.

Thank you for playing!

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WIKI: https://anode-heart.fandom.com/wiki/Anode_Heart_Wiki

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Stochasticcc

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StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Authorsto
GenreRole Playing, Adventure
Made withUnity, Aseprite
Tags2D, Atmospheric, Cute, JRPG, Monsters, Pixel Art, Retro, Top-Down
Average sessionAbout an hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Playstation controller
LinksSteam, Steam, Patreon, Homepage, Twitter, YouTube

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AnodeHeart_DEMO.zip 92 MB

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The demo for this was pretty compelling. I did have some trouble playing with a gamepad just because the game was more focused on keyboard controls but got through it. Also took me a while to figure out how to recruit Tama since I didn't have any clear directive as to how that functioned. Would love to play a full version on Switch since this seems like a perfect game for that platform.

Hey there, so I wanted to really scope out the Demo. Well, I bred Kobalth and Magmafir to make HAUL, but his art isn't loading and the game crashed. Oopsie. Anyway, will be getting the full game. Thanks!

Hey! Oh, yeah that can happen in the demo since it doesn't have all assets in it, and Haul shouldn't be obtainable there. Thanks for the getting the game! <3

Am Back But with sad news, my plan was to make a 1 hr long video but it truned out to be a 20min video, reason is in the video, and i dunno when i'll make part 2 thank you!!

Made a video

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Hi! Really cool game, I am willing to translate it into Spanish if you'd like :)

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Why are you so obsessed with wanting to translate games into Spanish,if someone wanted Spanish in their game they'd already have it in game via google translate or an actual translator

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dejalo tranquilo, es mejor que lo traduzca de una vez

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But like, check out his profile, it's absolutely full of the same message, over and over again "Can I translate your game into Spanish" and whatnot

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very fun and charming game, if you're into Pokemon or Digimon (especially old Pokemon), then I can see you liking this.
It has a lot of effort put into it and easily packs in hours of content.
5.2/5!

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Really cool so far, but it kinda softlocked on me and I lost some progress :/ According to a discussion on steam it happens when your Tama is KO'd by an enemy interrupt

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Yep sorry about that :/ I fixed it in the meantime, but this is an old demo that I haven't updated yet

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Man !!! what a job you're doing here! how many of you are working on this project ??? congrats! I love your art! and passion here!

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It's just me! :D free assets like fonts, music and sounds were also used, but as far as "the team" goes it's a team of one at this moment

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Wow man !!! you're amazing !! you can create tutorials in the future! 

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tiny grammar issue

Small grammar nitpick, but might need to say "but we still don't know how Tama came to exist in the first place..."
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Ah, true, I'll fix that. Thank you for the report!

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true, would be an interesting meta thing to do - to purposefully leave those typos in to simulate the old JRPG vibe :D but yeah, it's better to fix it

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i'm back, i have been busy these day so it was hard for me to play game, i found this video in my PC but i never uploaded it so............. hope u like it and still waiting for someone to tell me how to find the key card

Whats up guys i'm back with another video, but i also wanted to ask where can i find the key to unlock the big gate plz tell me cuz i do not know

i video will be coming soon its a TBT i'm making time for it

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Here is the real video i made, sorry for the mix up

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Ohh nice, thank you for the upload! :)

you are welcome, just doing my job as the king of anode heart

Hey, the King here, sorry i took too long to upload the video but go check it out "no thubmnaill"

ck it  out
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hey there! that's the old version. You'll need to download it again (it should say "0.2" in the corner, when you start the game)

i knw that i just uploaded the wrong video, my mistake

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I love what I've seen so far, this game looks so promising! The inspiration from the Digimon World games is clear to me, but the game easily stands on its own two legs.


I have a quick question though: How do you access the daycare? I got the two tunnel people to join, but they always tell me to come back at a later date... But I think I have reached the end of the demo now.

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Hey, glad you liked the demo! I recommend replaying it once the next update comes this month, almost all of the overworld areas have been revamped and some new mechanics have been introduced.

As for your question; You need to recruit Tami as well (the Bank NPC) and she'll open the daycare. I'll make this more clear through dialogue in the next update as well. Did you recruit Benny? If so, then yep that's the end of this demo.

ok i'm back with another video hope you'll love it

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Hey! I've updated the game to version v0.2! It's a pretty big update, so hope you'll check it out :)

ok my dude i will

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Just played the demo and I loved it!

(my mic was acting up in this video )i'm back, the king is back with part 5 or 6(i can't remember how many videos i made on this game) and in this video i played the new update another video will come so i will post it were again ok


 

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nice game ,, thanks, golem are strong ,my bird can't beat it XD

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Thank you! I recommend a Fire or Elec-type Tama to deal with the Golem :)

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Finally I can be rid of the damnedable Crable eating a team slot! I'm so excited to pick this game back up where I left off, and now actually be able to properly collect monsters. :)

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I guess I should have put it in the daycare, but there was something quite cathartic about being rid of it forever...

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I feel you :D Let me know if you need help with anything!

part 5 is now out so go watch it and part 6 coming soon

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Hey, there's a new version out now, v0.1.1. It introduced new areas, CP for techs (essentially PP, if you played Pokemon) and many other tweaks.

let me check it out

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I found a bug in the early game where if you go to the broken bridge to the right of the building, go the the right of the bridge, then straight upward you can access a black field. Also the character can walk out the camera. It's pretty funny lol.

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I love these type of games. Looking forward to next updates!

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<3

i'm back. this time i'm going for a well-just call me  the king of anode heart

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New update will come out next week. Hope to see you play it! :)

cool

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WOOH YEAH ANODE HEART UPDATE SOON :DDDDD

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I really love the pokemon-esque style of this game. It's really cool. I enjoy the music but the lack of music at the start felt kind of weird. The levels too were pretty neat. Although I didn't finish the demo(because i had no idea where to find the last ingredient), this was a solid demo. Hope to be able to play the full release!

 
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Thank you for the review! Which ingredient did you miss in the end? I'll add more hints on how to find it ingame.

i really love this game but i think this is my last video on this game i'll think about making another video on this game some time but now NO

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Thank you! An update will be coming soon (July most likely) so stay tuned.

then i will wait

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I think the sign in the west of Kernel Dump should say "West: Binary Forest."

You can clip through the dock on Memory Lake just where the post in the sand on the right and walk on the background.

And at a point I was being transported back to Kernel Dump randomly. At one point in the middle of a fight when I still had two Tama left.

Still a great demo. Looking forward to the finished product.

i love this game plz download this game and i hope it  will be  finished soon

i really loved this game and how it  was made, the story is great as well keep it up my man i'm loving the work
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thank you <3

you are well come, oh i will soon upload part 5 of my gameplay video of your game

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does it have a virus because its taking to long but i like it

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yes it installed yay 

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No, not to my knowledge :) Enjoy.

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i enjoyed it yay :D im even following you

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Omg I love it! As someone that has played the old Digimon World 1 & 3 games, I definitely see the inspiration! I've encountered a few bugs while playing, I'll probably join the Discord to mention them :)

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Glad you liked it! Those are some of my favorite childhood games :) I responded to you in Discord but I'll mention here as well - I only mapped PS4 joystick buttons for now. I'll add more sensible support for the Xbox controller in the future.

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This is great so far. I loved it!

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Thanks for playing :) I'm glad you liked it!