Hearts Above the Line is an adult romance visual novel set inside a prestige film production. As producer Beckett, navigate desire, power, and industry politics across three romance routes during one high-stakes season in Hollywood.

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Planned Release Date: June 2026

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Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This visual novel contains explicit sexual scenes with full nudity depicted in an anime art style. These scenes occur as part of the story progression during regular gameplay. Contains strong language, on-screen alcohol consumption (wine, bourbon, whiskey, cocktails), and on-screen tobacco use (a cigarette shared on a back lawn; a character handling but not lighting a cigarette), alongside themes of Hollywood power dynamics and workplace romance.

About This Game

In a Hollywood summer where every door has a clause and every headline has teeth, one producer's "yes" becomes the most dangerous romance on the lot.

You play as Beckett, the respected head of a small production company shooting a career-defining film across Los Angeles and Martha's Vineyard. A distributor who can shut everything down if the budget slips. An industry investigation that promises reform while power still lives in one word: greenlight. Over one high-pressure season, three formidable women draw close under perfectly defensible professional pretexts—until the work and the desire become indistinguishable.

Meet the Cast




Mallory — The Trigger
Arrow Pictures' Senior EVP of Production: elegant, feared, and fluent in the contract language that decides whether films live or die. She and Beckett share a history neither can afford to romanticize—because she's the one being pressured to pull the budget trigger, and every private moment with him comes with institutional optics she knows how to weaponize.



Marlowe — The Star
The lead actress on the film, poised for the role that turns "promising" into permanent. Brilliant, self-aware, and lonely in the precise way a spotlight can make you lonely, she sees Beckett as both a professional switch and a human one—and insists on naming the asymmetry even as she steps toward it.



Imogen — The Chair
The director who inherited a coveted seat under messy circumstances, promoted into her mentor's chair after an ouster no one discusses cleanly. Technical, exacting, and fiercely alive in the language of craft, she and Beckett collide as collaborators first—until exhaustion, ambition, and mutual recognition bend collaboration into something harder to contain.

Key Features

  • Single-choice romance routes with high-stakes consequences: Choose one relationship at a pivotal wrap-party moment—then follow a focused, character-driven route to an ending shaped by industry reality, not fairy-tale certainty.
  • A prestige-film production setting rarely explored in romance VNs: Table reads, dailies, editorial suites, studio boardrooms, festival strategy, and contractual trigger clauses—rendered with grounded detail and sharp dialogue.
  • Power, consent, and reputation as constant pressure: A rolling industry investigation and post-#MeToo protocols create an atmosphere where everyone performs safety while navigating the same old arithmetic.
  • Three distinct love interests, three distinct forms of intimacy: The Star, The Chair, and The Trigger—each romance is built from a different professional relationship and a different kind of risk.
  • Bittersweet, cyclical endings with a clear thesis: Films get made. Slates turn over. Affairs end—not always because someone decides, but because the next quarter arrives.

Adult Content

Each romance route includes explicit adult scenes. Contains adult content in every route.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI generated art, video, voice-acting, music, and writing.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7
    • Processor: 1 Ghz
    • Memory: 512 MB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Mac OS X 10.6-10.14
    • Processor: 1 Ghz
    • Memory: 512 MB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Game is non-notarized. May not work with 10.15 Catalina
    Recommended:
      Minimum:
      • OS: Ubuntu / SteamOS
      • Processor: 1 Ghz
      • Memory: 512 MB RAM
      • Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
      • Storage: 1 GB available space
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