Version History

Below are major patches with an official changelog. They are ordered from the newest to the oldest update.

Early Access

Version 1.0

Patch 1.0.9.2 - Fern and Rhode

Date: 28^th February 2021

• New Content
  • Rhode and Ferns storylines can now be fully completed.
  • (PTBR language has some portions missing still. Sorry!)
  • Something secret has been added to the game files.
  • The Credits have been updated with tons of new names.
  • Gizmo now has something to say in Lore's room.
  • A frog now puts on a magic show... somewhere.
  • A save point has been added in the deep woods in Animus.
  • New talky animations have been added for Fern when she's wearing a flower crown.
  • New talky animations have been added for Rhode.
  • New talky animations have been added for Avocado.
  • New talky animations have been added for Lore.
  • Ants now have a talky animation and voice.
  • A portion of Avocado's storyline is now accessible in ENUS language only.
  • Avocado's yard is now accessible.
  • The Lake is now accessible.
  • The pocketwatch now goes haywire in the time room and Lores bedroom.
  • The pocketwatch now has new art for painted variants.
  • There is now a version number on the bottom left corner of the main menu.
  • There is now a chapter name plate each time you choose a new world to explore.
  • There are new wallpapers in the wallpaper folder in the games installation folder.
  • The text engine now allows for multiple objects to speak at once.
  • Violently shaking text has been added to the game.
  • Patreon was smelly and has been permanently deleted. (We are looking into alternatives.)

• Performance Upgrades
  • Speed holes were added to the text engine so it's faster now.
  • Speed holes were also added to every talkable object so those are also faster.
  • Texture pages in Animus are now properly structured to improve performance.

• Bug Fixes
  • In Animus, Lore will no longer talk about a TODO while discussing his past adventures.
  • Jotunheim now properly resets if you finish The Tower as your first chapter.
  • Fixed some tile placement issues in the Animus Mines.
  • A massive amount of localization issues have been fixed across all languages.
  • Save files will no longer become corrupted if you do chapters in an impossible order.
  • There is now a proper delay after The Artifact speaks during Ferns scenes.
  • Birds no longer crash the game when leaving the Time Room.
  • The Time Room now has proper dialog and working switches.
  • Wiggling text can now be skipped at any speed without breaking the wiggles.
  • Rainbow text can now be skipped at any speed without breaking the rainbow.
  • Leaving the bedroom with the Pocketwatch while not going to Animus now hides the Pocketwatch.
  • All of the open world music in Animus has lower volume now.
  • Ц and Щ now have their tails in the proper positions.
  • The text engine no longer has overlapping hidden textboxes.
  • The text box is now center aligned after a cutscene in the deep mines.
  • Rhode now faces the correct direction during all conversations at home.
  • Waiting around in Ferns house after telling her you need a minute then talking to Fern again no longer causes a softlock.

• OST
  • 22 New songs were added to the OST bringing it to 94 total songs.

• Bug Reporting
  • Please report any issues via DM on Discord to Thor#5264.
  • Include a screenshot, it makes it much easier to fix!

• Upcoming Content
  • The rest of Animus (Chapter 3) is being actively developed.
  • Avocado's Storyline Arc is up next.

Patch 1.0.91 - Japanese Language Launch

Date: 28^th July 2020

• New Content
  • Fangamer has created a new Heartbound merch line.
  • The Credits have been updated with tons of new names.
  • You can now play through some of Fern and Rhodes storyline in ENUS only.
  • Fern has completely updated talking and overworld sprite animations.
  • Rhode has completely updated talking and overworld sprite animations.
  • You can now choose The Tower or Animus as your first chapter.
  • Animus will end after Fern/Rhode and send you back to world selection for now.
  • The Tower can now end in a different way based on your choices.
  • The camera in The Tower now works.
  • A new secret puzzle has been added.
  • Heartbound has been translated into Japanese.
  • Tons of new stuff was added to the Patreon.

• Bug Fixes
  • Emelio's tools no longer stick around when Emelio has them.
  • Rhode is no longer a red block when she stands left/right.
  • The text for Emelio's forge is far more attractive now.
  • Fern's movements are better during her opening cutscene.
  • Lore will now use Glowbringer runes during his breakdown if he's positive.
  • All language text can now change colors regardless of localization.
  • Text positioning on all dialog boxes has been fixed to remove border spacing issues.
  • Text positioning on all dialog boxes now works when switching between languages.
  • Tower Boss memory of the pool tileset has been fixed to match reality.
  • Nekane no longer talks slowly on her side of the table.
  • The door to Floor 0 now has a sound when you go through it.
  • You can no longer repeat the intro to Misery/Mania in The Mines.
  • Text in many localizations will no longer escape text boxes.
  • Lore can no longer move during the intro to Fern/Rhode.

• Design changes
  • Preamble cutscene has been removed.
  • You now get a key for drinking the water in The Tower.
  • The door in the Mailshroom now uses a key to unlock.
  • Terry's music now only plays when you get near him.
  • Unplugging OScar now has future consequences.

• Bug Reporting
  • Please report any issues via DM on Discord to Thor#5264.
  • Include a screenshot, it makes it much easier to fix!

• OST
  • New songs were added to the OST.

• Upcoming
  • Animus (Chapter 3) is being actively developed.
  • Fern and Rhode's resolution will be released next.

Patch 1.0.90 - Emelio's Arc

Date: 13^th January 2020

• New Content
  • You can now play through Emelio's storyline.
  • You can now start Fern/Rhode's storyline in English.
  • A new build was made for the Wiki Warriors to better help them archive the games different areas.

• Bug Fixes
  • Nekanes potions no longer crash the game.
  • Lore no longer pops forward one pixel after getting out of bed.
  • Lore can no longer get stuck behind some... let's call them nightmares in a dark place.
  • Music no longer cuts out in Emelio's house.
  • Music no longer cuts out after the mines cutscenes.
  • Lore can no longer slide through objects under specific conditions.
  • Grayscale shader no longer allows color through alpha channel.
  • Particle effects should now take reduced CPU on specific hardware setups.
  • You can no longer talk to an object while transitioning to another environment.
  • All sounds in the game and OST now have proper metadata.
  • Muspelheim and Niflheim selection portal music now loops properly.

• Design changes
  • The memory mini-game during the Barghest fight now maxes at 5 steps.
  • The memory mini-game during the Barghest fight now scales max steps more slowly
  • You now need to be less curious to reach Floor 0.
  • You must drink the water to reach Floor 0.
  • OScar is now company property.

• Localization
  • A ton of PTBR translation fixes
  • A ton of RU translation fixes
  • A ton of FR translation fixes
  • A ton of ESMX translation fixes
  • Support for JP translation has begun.
  • Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji are all supported.
  • We can now support many more glyph based languages in the future.
  • Ñ has been added to the font list.

• OST
  • A bunch of new songs were added to the OST bringing the track list to 70.
  • Metadata was added to all 70 songs so they should have information and cover art in things like Spotify.
  • The OST was converted to the new Soundtrack category from the old DLC category on steam.

• Upcoming
  • Animus (Chapter 3) is being actively developed.
  • Fern and Rhode's storyline is up next!

Patch 1.0.8

Date: 7^th September 2019

Hometown - Chapter 1

• New Content
  • A new cutscene has been added when you first Continue.
• Bug Fixes
  • Lore can no longer slide through tentacles and become permanently stuck.
  • Crunchy dog noise is now louder.
  • Baron now has emotions in your dreams.
  • Insider Baseball can now be obtained right after combat ends.

The Tower - Chapter 2

• New Content
  • A new secret environment was added to The Tower.
  • A new secret character was added to The Tower.
  • Choices in The Tower now carry on with you.
  • The Artifact is now more aggressive here.
  • Sounds have been implemented for the Terminated sequence.
  • Floor 0 can now be accessed under different circumstances.
  • Curiosity and Fear now accumulate in The Tower.
• Bug Fixes
  • The artifact text in the void can no longer be skipped.
  • You can now skip text on the Floor 0 records computer.
  • The first memory sequence is no longer a black screen.
  • Lore now turns to face OScar during the Terminated sequence ending.
  • Boss transitions are now faster.

Animus - Chapter 3

• New Content
  • A pocket watch has been implemented to better tell the time.
  • A new secret environment was added to Animus.
  • Ramul's storyline starter has been implemented.
  • You can now strike fear into the hearts of trees.
  • Time is now frozen in Animus when you first enter it.
  • Trees now have a ton of randomizations.
  • Lighting now fades based on the time of day and other lightsources in various locations.
• Bug Fixes
  • Curiousity in Animus no longer counts for The Tower.

Jotunheim - Chapter 4

• Bug Fixes
  • Muspelheim can now be accessed under different circumstances.

Global

• New Content
  • A phone in your bedroom can now be used.
  • A new achievement was added.
  • Full Controller support has now been implemented.
    • You can plug/unplug controllers at will even during combat.
    • Let me know if anything goes wrong here. It's super new tech for us.
• Localization
  • A lot of new content was added here and there so some things may be missing.
  • ESMX translation has been released.
    • Please let us know if you find any missing translation sections or issues of any kind.
• OST
  • A new song was added to the OST.
• Bug Fixes
  • Collision calculations have been reduced significantly to improve performance.
    • This was a massive change and should help improve performance for a lot of people.
  • Missing dialog will now revert to English when possible.
  • Rotating text now takes longer before it starts spinning.
  • Rotating text from a space no longer causes letters to hang when they should be floating.

Upcoming

• Language
  • JP is now planned.
• New Content
  • Animus (Chapter 3) is being actively developed.
    • All of the environment art is finished.
    • All of the character sprites and animations are finished.
    • All of the environments are built and functional.

Patch 1.0.7b - Animus Exploration

Date: 20^th January 2019

The Tower - Chapter 2

• Storyline
  • A number of interactions were changed to be more in line with characters true motives.
• Quality of Life
  • PPP's cutscene is now straightforward and less confusing.

Animus - Chapter 3

• New Content
  • The base environments in Animus are now open for exploration.
  • None of the dialog or interactions in this section work beyond the save point.
  • You may leave this area by walking into the trunk of the Clock Tree.
  • There are day/night cycles in Animus and it takes 24 minutes for a full day.
  • The intention is to build a number of timed events to make Animus a working village where everyone does their part.
• Bugs
  • Retrieving the AESTHETIC twice is no longer possible and no longer softlocks the game.
  • You can now enter the Vapor Cave multiple times.

Global

• Achievements
  • A number of secret achievements were added to the game.
  • None of these achievements force path altering actions in any way.
  • These were released earlier to test and are just now being put in the patch notes.
• Wallpapers
  • There is now a Wallpapers folder in your game installation folder.
  • A bunch of 1080p wallpapers can be found in there. Have fun!
  • File Location: \steamapps\common\Heartbound\Wallpapers
• OST
  • A ton of new songs have been added to the OST.
• Bugs
  • Fixed some bad calculations when pushing objects.
  • Audio no longer pops when you finish pushing objects.
  • Lore will now be pushed out of objects if he somehow is pushed into them.
  • Achievements can now be obtained even if your steam overlay is disabled.
  • Steam screenshots can now only be taken if your steam overlay is enabled.
• Credits
  • More backer names were added to the credits.

Upcoming

• Language
  • ESMX is still being worked on.
  • JP is now planned.
• New Content
  • Existing Worlds
    • A phone in your bedroom needs to be interactive.
    • A book in your bedroom needs to be interactive.
  • Animus (Chapter 3) is being actively developed.
    • All of the environment art is finished.
    • All of the character sprites and animations are finished.
    • All of the environments are built and functional.

Undocumented Patch

Date: 15^th January 2019

Global

• Achievements
  • Added 17 Achievements to the game.

Patch 1.0.6c - Russian Language Fixes

Date: 14^th January 2019

The Tower - Chapter 2

• New Content
  • OScar now stops you if you try to leave the cafeteria without talking to him.
• Language
  • Major fixes were implemented for the Russian language launch.

Global

• Language
  • Missing lines will now default to English instead of being blank.
• Credits
  • Adrien Bernardinis was added for his work on the French translation.

Upcoming

• Language
  • ESMX is still being worked on.
  • JP is now planned.
• New Content
  • Existing Worlds
    • A phone in your bedroom needs to be interactive.
    • A book in your bedroom needs to be interactive.
  • Animus (Chapter 3) is being actively developed.
    • All of the environment art is finished.
    • All of the character sprites and animations are finished.
    • All of the environments are built and functional.

Patch 1.0.6b - New Content, Mac, and Russian!

Date: 13^th January 2019

Hometown - Chapter 1

• New Content
  • Gizmo now has talking animations.
• Quality of Life
  • Symbols will no longer randomize when using a controller on the memory mini-game in the Barghest fight after doing a bunch of mean things.
  • Beating the Barghest now saves the game.

The Tower - Chapter 2

• New Content
  • A door now unlocks under specific circumstances revealing something dark and hidden.
  • Trapper now has a gym buddy.
• Bugs
  • A flying mushroom now makes noise.
  • The save tome on Floor 2 of The Tower can now be opened from the right side.
  • You can no longer move while a squishy bird teleports away.

Animus - Chapter 3

• Bugs
  • It's now afternoon in Animus instead of morning.

Global

• Platforms
  • Mac support has been released!
  • Please let us know if anything goes wrong.
• Language
  • Russian has been released!
  • Please report any translation issues to us!
• Quality of Life
  • Rotating text now takes longer before it starts rotating.
  • Button ping sounds have increased in volume.
• ARG
  • Good luck
  • I'm sorry... but not really.
• Credits
  • More backer names have been added to the credits.
  • JP Baas has been added to the credits for his work on the storm sounds in Hometown.

Upcoming

• Language
  • ESMX is still being worked on.
  • JP is now planned.
• New Content
  • Existing Worlds
    • A phone in your bedroom needs to be interactive.
    • A book in your bedroom needs to be interactive.
  • Animus (Chapter 3) is being actively developed.
    • All of the environment art is finished.
    • All of the character sprites and animations are finished.
    • All of the environments are built and functional.

Patch 1.0.5d - The Tower changes and Language Fixes

Date: 1^st January 2019

The Tower

• Quality of Life
  • Floor 2 now clearly explains what to do with your change.
  • Floor 2 now clearly explains where not to whistle.
• Reworks
  • Darkworld 103 is no longer a shadow maze.
    • This was super boring before. Thank you for the feedback!
• Bugs
  • Fixed a cutscene skip in Darkworld 103.
  • Fixed numerous translation issues with FR.
  • Fixed numerous translation issues with PTBR.

Global

• Bugs
  • Beating the boss of The Tower and then closing the game before finishing the next world section no longer traps you in The Tower Floor 2 forever.
• Music
  • Two new songs were added to the OST.
  • These songs are not planned to be in the game and can only be found on the OST.
• ARG
  • RING RING

Upcoming

• Language
  • ESMX is still being worked on.
  • RU is still being worked on.
  • JP is now planned.
• New Content
  • Existing Worlds
    • A phone in your bedroom needs to be interactive.
    • A book in your bedroom needs to be interactive.
  • Tower Floor 0 is being actively developed.
    • Environments are almost finished so this should be done soon.
  • Animus (Chapter 3) is being actively developed.
    • All of the environment art is finished.
    • All of the character sprites and animations are finished.
    • All of the environments are built and functional.
    • Starting on 1/7/2019 we will be working on this chapter live on Twitch.

Patch 1.0.4c - French Language Launch!

Date: 29^th December 2018

The Tower

• Quality of Life
  • Cheating at puzzles now has different consequences.
• Bugs
  • A joke in a closet was changed.
  • A blank textbox near Paul was fixed.
  • Whistler's hat lost its green dots.
  • OScar now always has a face in the cafeteria.
  • All of the tiles to the Mailshroom now spawn.

Global

• Language
  • FR translation has been released!
• Game Files
  • Heartbound is no longer a single file EXE.

Upcoming

• Language
  • ESMX is still being worked on.
  • RU is still being worked on.
  • JP is now planned.
• New Content
  • Tower Floor 0 is being actively developed.

Patch 1.0.3b - New Cutscenes and Bug Fixes

Date: 27^th December 2018

The Tower

• Quality of Life
  • Phish now tells you how many ducks he's missing.
• Bugs
  • You can no longer get stuck in the lunch rush door. Oops.
  • OScar no longer gives duplicate directions when you finish all your jobs.
  • You can no longer side-eye talk to objects on desks in The Tower.
  • Terminating at the same time you're terminated no longer terminates the game.
  • G8r has lost the green dots plaguing his face.
  • OScar will no longer double his music just before termination.
• New Content
  • Joe isn't finished chatting with you.
  • Baron has some words for you.

Global

• Storyline Changes
  • The fires of Muspelheim now burn under different circumstances.
• Steam
  • The Steam overlay now works. (Shift + Tab)
  • You can take screenshots using your preferred steam key. (F12)
  • The Heartbound OST is now in its own folder in your installation folder.
  • The Heartbound OST now shows up in Library Music.
  • The Heartbound OST now has album art.
• Bugs
  • A crash during the first portal cutscene that was implemented in this build was fixed.

Upcoming

• Language
  • FRFR translation will be released next.
  • ESMX is still being worked on.
  • RU is still being worked on.
• New Content
  • Tower Floor 0 will start active development on 12/27/2018.

Patch 1.0.2 - Bugs and Employee Satisfaction

Date: 26^th December 2018

The Tower

• Quality of Life
  • OScar will now direct you to your next job if you speak to him again.
    • It's in his programming and he probably enjoys it.
  • Whiteboards now assign Newhires to a cubicle. Lucky you!
  • A handbag is now always at the lost and found. Pick it up if it's yours!
• Bugs
  • A noise complaint has been filed against the local ducks for whooping too loudly.
  • Sticky notes have lost their ability to phase into noses.

Animus

• Bugs
  • The camera will no longer get stuck in the trees in Animus if you go there multiple times.
    • No trees were harmed in the fixing of this bug.

Global

• Text
  • Words should no longer fly out of their assigned boxes. Should.
  • PTBR translation should have a lot less typos and inconsistencies. Also should.
• Credits
  • The credits are no longer a trap and can be exited by hitting cancel.
    • Credits were harmed in the implementation of this feature.
  • The credits now speed up if you hold accept as they get excited by your approval.
  • A bunch of names were added to the credits. Thanks for being rad!
• Cutscenes
  • World portals no longer shift out of the visible spectrum.

Upcoming

• Language
  • FRFR translation will be released next.
  • ESMX is still being worked on.
  • RU is still being worked on.
• New Content
  • Tower Floor 0 will start active development on 12/27/2018.

Patch 1.0.1 - Bug Fixes Galore

Date: 24^th December 2018

Global

• Chapter 2 Released
  • The Tower is now playable.
• OST Released
  • This has been fixed and can now be downloaded as DLC.
• Pushing Objects
  • Pushable objects no longer cause a softlock.
  • Pushable objects can no longer be walked into from the side.

The Tower

• Bugs
  • You can no longer move while talking on Floor 2.

Animus

• Bugs
  • Entering Animus after beating The Tower should no longer have a broken camera.
  • Animus can now be entered again after finishing it without causing a softlock.

Language

• Brazilian Portuguese
  • PT-BR has now been released.
  • If you find any issues with the translation please let us know.
  • PT-BR can now be selected via the controller.

Beta

Patch 1.20 - The Big One

Date: 10^th April 2018

New Content

• 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.

Languages

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

Performance

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

Secrets

• Good luck!

Patch 1.16 - Performance and Secrets

Date: 21^st October 2017

Performance

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

Languages

• Minor Russian language fixes.

Secrets

• Good luck!

Patch 1.15.1

Date: 31^st August 2017

• Fixed a major issue that negatively impacted a number of endings for the Demo.

Patch 1.15 - Russian Language Added!

Date: 30^th August 2017

Languages

• Russian language has been added!
• The main menu is now displayed in your language of choice.

Controller Support

• There is now a menu to select controllers instead of mouse and keyboard.
• The left joystick can now be used to move and control actions.
• Combat when using a controller has been improved.

Bug Fixes

• The dresser now asks if you want to wear your sweater in select environments.
• Gizmo now properly disappears after being spoken to.
• The game no longer closes after the end.

Patch 1.14 - Controller Support

Date: 7^th July 2017

Controller Support

• Heartbound can now be played with any gamepad recognized by your computer.

New Content

• Combat mini-games have been updated with new instructional graphics.
• Combat mini-game objectives change when using a controller.
• Additional secrets have been added to the world.
• The final cutscene now changes to more correctly match your playstyle.
• Save points now explain that your progress has been saved.
• Health is now restored before every encounter.

Bug Fixes

• The same eye will no longer be chosen multiple times in a row on the Pattern Minigame.
• Dying during the first encounter and then starting the second encounter without saving no longer immediately ends the second encounter.
• Playing through the entire game without saving and then dying on the final encounter no longer places you outside of the collision in your room.
• Numerous PT-BR language updates.

Demo v1.13 Released | PT-BR!

Date: 25^th June 2017

New Content

• A few cutscenes have additional effects.
• There is now a PT-BR translation for the entire Demo!

Beta v1.12 Released!

Date: 17^th June 2017

Fixed Issues

• Going back to your room now requires you to first save the game.
  • This was causing serious file corruption issues.
• It is no longer possible to talk to two objects at the same time.
• Losing in combat now loads your last save point.
• Reduced CPU costs for the entire dialog system.
• Screenshake will no longer slowly slide combat off the screen.
• A duplicate Binder has been removed from the Library.
• Binder will now always show up in the Library.
• Pods no longer crash the game if you lose during their mini-game.
• Eyes no longer crash the game if you double click them.
• The game no longer crashes after the final scene.
• A file with developer credits is now included with the Beta.
• Minor dialog fixes and edits.

New Content

• The ARG has been extended with additional pages.
• A bunch of secrets have been added.

Upcoming Changes

• We are working on the PT-BR Translation.

Beta v1.1 Released!

Date: 15^th June 2017

• Launched updated Beta.