Heartstrings
by Alien Cat Games
4.5 (37 votes)
Unity
v0.2.5.1
Game Details
- Version
- v0.2.5.1
- Developer
- Alien Cat Games
- Engine
- Unity
- Status
- Ongoing
- Language
- English
- Censored
- No
- Updated
- 4 June 2026
About
A family relocation and financial trouble push the protagonist toward one clear goal: study hard, land a scholarship, keep his life together. The people he meets along the way have other plans for him.
The setup is simple small-town drama, but the cast he collects complicates the "study hard" plan fast. New town, new school, new faces, and a story that keeps pulling him away from his books and toward everyone else's problems and interests.
Play moves through a school-centered sandbox, clicking between locations and characters as relationships develop over time. Progress comes from managing where he goes and who he spends time with, rather than following a single fixed script, with routes and outcomes shaped by the choices made along the way.
Changelog
v0.2.5.1:
- Story continuation (Day 3): after literature class
- Added new characters:
- Alex Shepard
- Brian Bates
- Gabriela Pacheco
- Fixed a bug where the phone would randomly appear when pressing the Enter key.
- Fixed errors in the Spanish version.
- Fixed an issue where some decompression tools returned an error due to an excessively long path, causing the game unable to run because files were missing.
v0.2.4.2:
- Story continuation during the third day: cafeteria.
- Added new character: Brittany Chambers.
- Fixed an issue with Vertical Sync on low graphics settings that caused excessive GPU usage.
- Removed a button on the main title screen for the Oppaiman store.
- Fixed a bug in the gym scene on the third day that prevented the game from continuing.
- Fixed text errors.
- Fixed errors in the Spanish version.
- Fixed an issue where the new scene would not trigger if you took the Main Hall route.
- Fixed the Gym Hallway UI in the Infirmary area.
v0.2.4.1:
- Fixed a bug in the gym scene on the third day that prevented the game from continuing.
- Fixed text errors.
- Fixed errors in the Spanish version.
v0.2.3.1
- Continuation of the story on the third day: visit to the nurse's office and encounter before entering.
- Added new character: Megan Dixon.
- Fixed issue with tooltips. They were broken and not working correctly.
- Fixed issue with the mobile phone UI, as well as other UIs, where text continued to show while the UI was visible, causing unexpected errors.
- Fixed issue where scenes would restart when closing certain UIs.
- Increased the maximum number of characters when choosing the character's first name and last name from 8 characters each to 12. (You may experience visual issues when setting names and surnames over 16 characters, which was the previous limit).
- Fixed Emma/Emily's name in the science class.
- Fixed some texts in the first gym class.
- Fixed issue with resolutions: The game is designed to work correctly in 16:9 resolutions, and other resolutions were being filtered out. Now, if your monitor doesn't support those resolutions, you can choose a resolution from the available options, and it will display a warning about possible visual errors.
- Fixed issue with Steve's first appearance, where the Constructive attribute was reduced to 1 in a couple of responses.
- Added a button on the main title screen for the Oppaiman store.
- Graphical improvement in renders.
- Visually improved videos.
- Fixed some renders with visual errors.
- Added more details to the medical exam scene.
- Added decision saving during the medical exam scene.
- Reduced the amount of libido required to take a detailed, lustful look at Emily when you first meet her.
- Added time progression during the infirmary scene.
- Fixed a bug that allowed the fantasy scene with Kally to trigger at an invalid time, which broke the game.
- Fixed some errors in the Spanish translation.
- Added a window in the main menu with a warning to change the resolution in case of visual or UI problems with the game.
- Updated the list of Patreons in the main menu.
- Alpha 2.2.1
- Continuation of the story on the third day: science class.
- New characters added:
- Noah Lee.
- Emily Adams.
- Several characters in the renders have been fixed and optimized.
- Fixed an issue with Steve's first appearance, where the Constructive attribute was reduced to 1 in a few responses.
- Corrections to some text that was in Spanish instead of English.
- Fixed issue with tooltips. They were broken and not working correctly.
- Fixed issue with the mobile phone UI, as well as other UIs, where text continued to show while the UI was visible, causing unexpected errors.
- Fixed issue where scenes would restart when closing certain UIs.
- Increased the maximum number of characters when choosing the character's first name and last name from 8 characters each to 12. (You may experience visual issues when setting names and surnames over 16 characters, which was the previous limit).
- Fixed Emma/Emily's name in the science class.
- Fixed some texts in the first gym class.
- Fixed issue with resolutions: The game is designed to work correctly in 16:9 resolutions, and other resolutions were being filtered out. Now, if your monitor doesn't support those resolutions, you can choose a resolution from the available options, and it will display a warning about possible visual errors.
- Added a button on the main title screen for the Oppaiman store.
- Alpha 2.1.1
- Continuation of the story on the third day. This update includes the first class of the day, the gym class.
- Added a new character.
- Changed the gym to the new model.
- The renders for the gym class on the first day have been redone to match the new gym model.
- Several characters in the renders have been fixed and optimized. (They still need to be implemented during runtime).
- Updated the genitalia model of the Main Character.
- Added the possibility to activate cheats in the Gameplay tab in Settings.
- Cheats, for now, only allows to change some stats of the main character.
- Added menu windows when interacting with the bed and the computer, allowing you to set the time for rest and recovery of energy and mood.
- Added a special skip button during the introduction to avoid skipping it by accident.
- Added UI showing some of the character's stats.
- Optimized and compressed the game size. Reduced from 6 GB to 2 GB.
- Fixed grammatical errors in the English version.
- Fixed and added missing text in the Spanish version.
- Fixed clipping issue with Alice Stone's clothing.
- Fixed a bug that allowed access to the phone from the beginning.
- Fixed tooltip text error displayed on the day wheel.
- Fixed an issue where, randomly, the Gameplay tab in Settings wouldn't appear when creating the Build.
- Changed the Alien Cat Games logo.
- Reworked the structure of the interfaces and algorithms that display the UI transitions between scenes. This should fix the error some players experienced where the UI didn’t appear when loading a saved game.
- Alpha 2
- Continuation of the story during the second day.
- New characters added:
- Juliette Dupont.
- Albert Goodfield.
- Sarah Thompson.
- Milton Green.
- Steve Kaplan.
- Improved hair and eyelashes of all characters.
- Improved eyebrows of some characters.
- Added dialogues to each character's answer. These answers affect the relationships and attributes of the character.
- Added randomization of the order of the answers.
- Added option to enable or disable randomization of answers.
- Changed the UI system that showed the changes in relations and attributes of the character.
- Added particle system to show changes in relationships, attributes and moods of the character.
- Added button to skip the previous introduction to the Main Menu.
- Added button to skip New Game introduction.
- Added fade in/out animation in the UI of the transitions between scenes to improve their visibility.
- Added first collectible.
- Added new Gameplay tab in the options menu.
- Added bold to names and locations.
- Added Spanish language.
- Added UI to display the collectible in detail.
- Added UI to show when it is autosaving.
- Added button in the Gameplay tab in the Options menu to enable or disable autosave.
- Redone the Alpha 1 renders.
- Fixed the Calendar UI so that the current day is marked correctly.
- Unlocked freedom of movement (limited) through the school.
- Fixed several bugs.
- Alpha 1.0
- Initial Release.
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