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Development Report

Added 2025-08-28 18:46:15 +0000 UTC

First of all, if you are reading this, that mean’s you are helping in my efforts to release Heavy Hearts to the world in it’s complete form, defiant in the face of censorship.
As you likely have heard, payment processors such as Visa & Mastercard have threatened to debank multiple sites that host adult content. In a knee-jerk reaction, many of them fully disabled adult video games.
As a result, about 50% of Heavy Heart’s revenue collapsed almost immediately. Surprisingly, Patreon and Substar are still holding us afloat. It is incredibly uncertain how this will proceed.

If you are able to, please subscribe. As of now, this platform is the only one that generates revenue for the game and I cannot afford to pay my partners at this rate. I have a lot of followers, many of which are not financially capable of supporting the game. I get it.

But if you are able to, a few bucks from a lot of people will keep this game afloat.

That being said, here is where we stand:

Itchio is basically dead for adult games. HH’s traffic went from high to abysmal overnight. If you own the game on that platform, it will continue receiving updates, however, It doesn’t seem feasible to promote any longer.

We have joined SAIKEY as a new platform to sell on. You can find it here: https://saikeystudios.com/product/heavy-hearts/

As of Tuesday, August 19th, we have officially submitted the build to Steam. As it goes through the review process, I keep my fingers crossed tight that it makes it through the censors. If you have both of your hands, please cross your fingers for me too!

This is a portion of my previous subscriber only post, with the wips and additional notes omitted. I would help the game immensely if you subscribed - it would really help the game keep rolling.