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Nova Hearts: The Spark
Join Luce and her friends in this FREE first chapter: The Spark! A mysterious force transforms you and other residents of Vermillion into heroes and villains. TEXT, DATE and FIGHT in this turn-based combat dating adventure!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“Nova Hearts is a visual novel that manages to seamlessly integrate a turn-based battle mechanic into the genre. The game is planned to be released later this summer and will have three or more chapters, totaling around 12h of gameplay. The first of these chapters is released as…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“In Nova Hearts: The Spark get your super hero vibe on while you & your friends take on the villains invading Vermilion! The Story This review covers the first chapter of the story with the rest coming out in the future. However what I played felt very fleshed out, with beautiful…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“TLDR Despite fine artwork, Nova Hearts’ odd mix of genres, lack of design depth and complexity and a weak narrative result in uninspired and boring game-play, missing the confused mark it was trying to hit. Intro Nova Hearts: The Spark When I heard of a new game from the studio…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedLatest official news
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Nova Hearts in Lovecraftian Days
Wait, why is Nova Hearts participating in the Lovecraftian Days Steam event? Because the game has some Lovecraft inspirations ! As surprising as it may be for Nova Hearts, Lovecraft can take different
Why turn based combat and how does it work?
We're participating in the Turn Based Thursday Festival ! What better than to talk a little bit about the combat of Nova Hearts? You were many to give your feedback on it and we took notes, so thank y
The Spark update!
Our new update is live! After reviewing your feedback and suggestions, we've made some changes! Many of you mentioned that the phone conversations were too long, the combat phases too. So we changed t
What's in the next update?
An update is on the way for the first chapter The Spark! We've been carefully reading your feedback and thanks to your reports and suggestions, a few things will be updated! This update will come in t
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Turn-Based Strategy · Strategy · Dating Sim · Adventure · Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction · Turn-Based Tactics · Singleplayer · Superhero · Female Protagonist · LGBTQ+ · Romance (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · Gamepad Recommended · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Official site | https://www.novaheartsgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5-4690K or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB Storage: 5 GB available space