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adventure video game
Bionic Heart
By Riva Celso, released 1 Jan 2009
- Microsoft Windows
- Linux
- macOS
- visual novel
What it is
Bionic Heart is a visual novel and adventure game by Riva Celso, set in a rain-soaked London in 2099. Climate changes have made permanent rain common across much of Earth. You play Luke Black, a 36-year-old bio-informatic engineer and lead programmer at nanotechnology research company Nanotech. His life changes after he meets Tanya, and the story follows the possible paths that encounter opens up. The game combines classic visual novel play with interactive scenes and a map system. Choices and character relationships affect the outcome, with 24 endings to discover. A fully voiced version is optional and includes more than four hours of voices. On Steam, it offers single-player play, achievements, trading cards, partial controller support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. It is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
What players like, and what they don't
- 24 endings to uncover
- Choices and relationships shape outcomes
- Interactive scenes and map system
- Optional voiced version with over four hours of voices
- Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Controller support is partial
Who it suits
Bionic Heart suits visual novel players interested in branching sci-fi stories, relationship choices, and replaying to find different endings. Its partial controller support may matter to players who prefer using a controller.
Bionic Heart pairs a climate-changed setting with a branching visual novel structure and multiple possible endings. Players can follow different paths and revisit the story to see how outcomes change.
