Anode Heart on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

A semi-open world, monster tamer RPG, set in a digital, futuristic environment, with fast-paced combat, a card minigame and focus on exploration.

Anode Heart is a adventure, rpg and creature collector game developed and published by Stove Powered Games.
Released on November 17th 2023 is available on Windows and MacOS in 2 languages: English and French.

It has received 353 reviews of which 320 were positive and 33 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 17.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Anode Heart into these genres:

Adventure RPG Creature Collector JRPG Card Battler 2D Top-Down Pixel Graphics Collectathon Colorful Cute Nonlinear Retro Futuristic Transhumanism Singleplayer Story Rich Exploration Indie Turn-Based Combat

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11
Processor: 1.1 GHz Processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Integrated graphics
Storage: 500 MB available space

MacOS

Processor: 1.1 GHz Processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 500 MB available space

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Dec. 2024

If you like the older Digimon games, you will like Anode Hearts. It's a love letter to Drigimon World 3 - catch monsters, build your team and explore big areas.

Sept. 2024

A love letter to old monster tamer and pixel adventure games. Large world to explore with extensive side activities and a post-game to discover. Remarkably varied scenery and world, it isn't your standard monster taming game. Incredibly unique aesthetic and deep gameplay, once you get the hang of it. Only downsides is that its perhaps too varied and could benefit from polish on the core experience. Would recommend if you like the genre or turn based adventure games.

Aug. 2024

If you are a fan pixelated monster catching rpgs in the vein of Digimon Anode Heart is a beautiful homage to that specific niche of games. It has a good variety of monsters, simple and complex mechanics for beginners and people who would like a challenge and a cool story to motivate you through the game. Anode heart has an incredible card game minigame which I personally lost myself to with just how engaging it is and a healthy amount of side-quests to make sure you have extra reasons to explore. Mechanically the game is simple enough and you can beat the main game without using it's more complex aspects but the depth of mechanics where you can items items to switch attacks between tama and breeding to make your ultimate team is an incredible addition and shows quality effort from the game devs. My only criticism would be that you can only unlock the more challenging modes after you beat the main game but going in blind and sticking mostly to the main game does provide a sufficient enough challenge. All in all Anode Heart feels nostalgic, yet manages to provide a new experience with many little delightful elements that come together to make a great package of a game and very worthwhile for it's price.

July 2024

I'm enjoying it so far. Beware going into it though: Combat is a bit more complicated but I would say much, much more fun than other mon games once you get used to it. I still don't know what the 3 acronyms on the attack stats actually mean, but this is how i understand them: BP = Battle Power (Base damage before stats) TP = Turn Points (Your speed gives you pips that indicate how many TP you can spend before the opponent's turn) CP = Constitution Points (Each attack can only be used so many times per fight before struggle damage, prevents spam) Also the character Attributes: HP = Health Str = Damage for "Brutal" attacks Mag = Damage for "Magical" attacks Speed = Crit Rate + TP per turn Wis = Luck (chance to learn new moves from enemies, crit rate, etc.) Also protip: Don't prestige a character right away (pressing the C button on their stats page), go to max level first. You can only prestige a limited number of times before needing to sacrifice the mon through the breeding system (basically a prestige system where you sac two mons for 1 baby mon)

April 2024

Closer to a digimon sort of game than pokemon, but enjoyable regardless of its inspiration. The sprite work is a little hard to read at times, but most of the monsters are pretty cute and/or cool in their own way. About 30ish hours on the first playthrough to hit the credits, and it's usually pretty good about pointing you in the right direction so there's not much aimless wandering. Packed with a surprising amount of variety to it and a lot of little nooks to explore and find upgrades and even its own little internal TCG. The status effects and interactions can be a little obtuse at times, but you can always just level up and bulldoze through it if you don't want to worry about it too much. Grinding never felt required in the playthrough. If you run into a wall there's probably somewhere else you can go. Overall a good game.

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17.49€

8.4

320

Online players

Developer

Stove Powered Games

Publisher

Stove Powered Games

Release 17 Nov 2023

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