Heart of the Woods

A fantasy yuri visual novel filled with magic, fairies, and a ghost girl. When Maddie and her best friend, Tara, journey to a remote forest village to investigate rumors of the supernatural, they find a whole lot more than they bargained for.

Heart of the Woods is a lgbtq+, visual novel and female protagonist game developed by and published by Studio Élan.
Released on February 15th 2019 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 5 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, German, Traditional Chinese and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 865 reviews of which 826 were positive and 39 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Heart of the Woods into these genres:

LGBTQ+ Visual Novel Female Protagonist Dark Fantasy Anime Interactive Fiction Choices Matter Romance Cute Story Rich Fantasy Casual Mystery Atmospheric 2D Indie Singleplayer

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 or higher
Processor: Any 64-bit Intel, AMD, or ARM / Apple Silicon CPU (※ x86_64 translation is required on ARM / Apple Silicon.)
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Any GPU that supports at least OpenGL 2.0, OpenGL ES 2.0, or DirectX 9.0
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 2 GB available space

MacOS

OS: macOS / OS X 10.10 Yosemite or higher
Processor: Any 64-bit Intel, AMD, or ARM / Apple Silicon CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Any GPU that supports at least Metal, OpenGL 2.0, or OpenGL ES 2.0
Storage: 2 GB available space

Linux

OS: Any reasonably modern Linux distribution (※ Roughly equivalent to Ubuntu 16.04 or above.)
Processor: Any 64-bit Intel, AMD, or ARM / Apple Silicon CPU (※ Earning Steam achievements / trophies on ARM Linux requires x86_64 translation.)
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Any GPU that supports at least OpenGL 2.0 or OpenGL ES 2.0
Storage: 2 GB available space
Additional Notes: ※ Tested on Ubuntu 22.10 (x86_64) and Asahi Linux (arm64e, Apple Silicon).

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Dec. 2024

This game is currently the best yuri game I've played. The romance is clearly the highlight of this game and I love tara as a trans lead character The art is beautiful and the story has a good pacing to it Highly recommend

Nov. 2024

You matter. Despite your flaws, you are important to those close to you. Your abuse doesn't define you. You deserve happiness, and its never too late to find it. Love can be healing, love can be the most powerful force in your life. That's what this game said to me, and while i already knew most of it, hearing it all out loud was still impactful. Doesn't help that the characters are all adorable and i became overly attached to them lol.

Oct. 2024

Heart of the Woods surprised me with its level of draw-in in terms of mystery. I enjoyed this element of the story, and found both couples in the game to be likable. Heart of the Woods has its threats throughout the game, but maintains an overall optimistic viewpoint, so if you like that this may be for you. The only complaint I really have is that I feel that the main antagonist of the game had no proper motivations, so the sense of danger was lessened. Overall, my favorite characters were Morgan and Abigail, and I also think they had the best voice acting of the cast. If you like nature, mystery, or yuri, then you will most likely find something to enjoy in Heart of the Woods.

Oct. 2024

Heart of the Woods is a good, fairly short (10 hours or so) yuri style VN. It's voiced in English, and the art style is clean and colorful. There are a few choices, and a few separate endings, one of which is the "true" ending. I'll make this short. It's probably a 7.5/10 for me, the story is entertaining and the character interaction and development is engaging. The story itself is really unique, and has twists and turns that keep you guessing to the end. Extra points for Geladura being ... herself. There's magic, there's mayhem, there's drama, and there are moments you can really empathize with the characters. Maddie's and Tara's voice actors especially bring a lot to the table. I'd like to have seen more support characters as background filler, especially to liven up the town (though I understand why lively isn't the word to use...) Also, some of the actions the characters take during the climax of the story aren't intuitive and make you wonder how they knew what to do. These are very minor gripes, otherwise this is a solid VN with great pacing.

May 2024

Heart of the Woods is such a cute VN! It absolutely had a lot of heart poured into it, and it shows. I loved the characters, they are very likeable, even if sometimes I wanted to yell at them for making stupid decisions at points. But that doesn't mean they weren't believable. They give off messy lesbians vibes and I'm totally here for it. The voice acting ranges from serviceable to great. The art is good to sometimes breathtaking. And the story... well, the story goes places. Places I didn't expect it to, and it kept me engaged, getting me re-engaged and making me feel things. A range of things. A definite recommend for Yuri fans. *Finger guns*

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14.79€

9.0

826

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Studio Élan

Release 15 Feb 2019

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