Heartstrings v0.2.5.1

A 3D dating-sim sandbox VN with strong high school slice-of-life mechanics. You play a young man who moves to a new town because of family problems and arrives with one goal: study hard enough to land a scholarship. Life in the new town, predictably, has other ideas. The cast of teachers and students you meet each have their own stories and personalities, and your choices reshape theirs as much as yours.

Alien Cat Games builds the playthrough around a stats-management loop: balance studies, mood and sleep day to day, manage relationships with the people around you, decide which routes you actually open. The world runs on a day-night cycle with seasonal changes to environments and characters, and the relationship system feeds into branching paths with multiple endings.

Visuals mix 3D graphics with 2D renderings for a semi-realistic style, with animated 3D sex scenes and an unusually deep ambient soundscape (the dev emphasises diegetic environmental sound throughout). Tags lean dating sim, sandbox, RPG, school setting, romance, point-and-click, futa/trans, with a male protagonist. Available in English and Spanish. io; Patreon and SubscribeStar backers fund continued development.