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Young Hearts
‘Young Hearts’ is a visual novel in the genres of romance and slice of life, telling stories about the everyday life of a student company living in a warm southern town: stories about their secrets, dreams, love, their problems and ghosts of the past…
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“For now its like 3/5 of the planned game - keep that in mind. Otherwise - great Visual novel. Its called Visual for a reason, buddy. It has images, it has sound, it has a ton of unity visual effects too. It may even work on windows 7 if you are smart enough to still use this.…”
— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs played“Fortova is the best girl in the Freeze Frame. Period. Фортова - лучшая девушка Вмёршего Кадра (олд ага да угу мм). И точка.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Nice slice. Looking forward to other girls' routes”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
The English translation of “The Ballad” is now available!
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“The Ballad of Blood, Mist, and Darkness” is already on Steam!
“Welcome to the colorful world of ‘The Ballad,’ O Dwellers of the Tales. Look! Listen! It’s time for our little story to begin.” The first paid DLC for Young Hearts, “The Ballad of Blood, Mist, and Da
The night of Walpurgis is upon us…
PLEASE NOTE: “The Ballad” is currently only available in Russian! We are currently working on the English translation and will make it available as soon as possible. https://sun9-13.userapi.com/impg/_
Young Hearts—“A Night of Southern Snow” is now available on Steam!
English translation of this episode will be available soon! The New Year’s episode is mainly for our old followers who read the old version of Forte’s route, which doesn’t exist in the Steam version o
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Visual Novel · Romance · Anime · Adventure · Multiple Endings · Story Rich · 2D · Drama · Narration · Nonlinear · Cute · Relaxing (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Russian |
| Achievements | 13 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Microsoft Windows 8/8.1/10/11 Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 and higher Memory: 2048 MB RAM Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable GPUs DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space