HEARTBEAT
Fair · RPG · 2018
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 21h 44h to 100%
- Value
- $0.71/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 624 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Make friends, make enemies, go fishing, collect cards, beat up sharks, beat up tigers, obtain the denim blade, train a fuzzy infantile insect for battle, and uncover ancient secrets in this monster-filled adventure.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 39 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Phoenotopia: Awakening ($19.99, scores 64).
More about HEARTBEAT
This site sampled 278 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 21 hours. Doing everything runs 44, 2.1 times as long.
The drop-off
30% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I loooovvveee this ost. I keep going back to it and listening to it. The characters are so cute and it's easy to adjust the difficulty for yourself if you like making it harder after getting used to it. I gift it to friends so they can enjoy the game too. Mechanics are relatively easy to hang the hang of and the story does not feel long. You kinda get caught up playing it until you realize you're done and you wanna...
2 more reviews
This game is sooo wholesome, it's pretty, cute, feminine without being raunchy. The music and visuals are just such a good blend between retro and modern (furry, let's be honest) internet culture. The RPG mechanics are simple, and the Hard difficulty isn't really that challenging; it's okay, sometimes RPGs don't need to be complex and can let you relax and turn your brain off.
So much content omg! and not really fillers. Amazing art and characters, world-building, map, mini-games, combat system. Story is okay, intriguing enough to keep me invested. I love that you can collect skills to open up new areas and get to the treasures :D
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
HEARTBEAT scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/984560/heartbeatReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.