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Nova Hearts: The Spark

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!

Released Jan 25, 2024 Developer Lightbulb Crew Platforms Windows Turn-Based StrategyStrategyDating SimAdventureVisual Novel
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-27)

What players say

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73.8%positive65 reviews
Recommended · 31 found this helpful

“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
Recommended · 23 found this helpful

“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
Not recommended · 34 found this helpful

“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 played
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Latest official news

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Mar 07, 2025
Spark Update

Onboarding rework, Many bugfix, Quality of Life improvements

Apr 05, 2024
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

Apr 04, 2024
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

Mar 11, 2024
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

Feb 23, 2024
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

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.

GenresIndie, Strategy, Free To Play
Player tagsTurn-Based Strategy · Strategy · Dating Sim · Adventure · Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction · Turn-Based Tactics · Singleplayer · Superhero · Female Protagonist · LGBTQ+ · Romance (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Full controller support · Gamepad Recommended · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French *
ControllerFull support
Official sitehttps://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