Hearts Under Guard is an adult romance visual novel. Play as Hayes, a close-protection lead at an East Hampton oceanfront estate. A kidnap threat tightens security and three women pull you past every professional line you've sworn to hold. Three routes, each with explicit adult scenes.

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Planned Release Date: July 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. This visual novel depicts on-screen alcohol consumption at high-society gatherings and covert corporate-espionage activity (undercover infiltration, false-identity exfiltration), and references off-screen tobacco use, kidnapping threats, a hostile corporate takeover, extramarital infidelity, and a security professional carrying a concealed firearm that is never discharged.

About This Game

In a house built for privacy, the most dangerous line is the one you stand on every day.

You are Hayes—a veteran close-protection operator newly promoted to lead the security detail at a twelve-acre East Hampton oceanfront compound. Your job: perimeter checks, protocol, and never crossing the one rule that keeps the operation clean. But when a credible kidnap threat locks down the estate and a hostile corporate bid squeezes the household from the outside, three women pull you into private moments that stop feeling procedural fast.

Meet the Cast




Piper — The Cover
Celine's personal assistant—hyper-competent, impeccably placed, and just a little too clean to be accidental. Hayes clocks her tradecraft early, and what begins as surveillance turns into a dangerous intimacy built on mutual recognition: two professionals who know exactly what they are.



Celine — The Second Position
Richard Crane's second wife: polished, strategic, and bored in the specific way only a perfectly managed life can produce. She doesn't ask for romance like a fantasy—she negotiates it like infrastructure, with clear eyes and a schedule.



Tatum — The Principal
The 21-year-old heiress who's spent her whole life under protection—smart enough to see the cage, quiet enough to survive it, and engaged to a future she didn't entirely choose. Hayes is the first operator she's looked at directly, not as furniture, but as a person.

Key Features


  • Single-choice branching romance: One pivotal decision launches you into a focused, character-driven route with a distinct tone, power dynamic, and ending.
  • Proximity as the core tension: Executive protection turns closeness into currency—every conversation, corridor, and routine check becomes charged.
  • The compound as a living stage: Front-of-house perfection versus backstage intimacy, with secrets unfolding in pool houses, service corridors, and the gate-keeper's cottage.
  • Ambient stakes, constant pressure: A kidnap threat and a hostile bid create a slow-burn atmosphere where nobody panics—until it matters.
  • Three romances, three kinds of risk: The principal, the spouse, and the plant—each relationship offers a different kind of heat, consequence, and emotional cost.

Adult Content


Each romance route includes explicit adult scenes. Contains nudity, sexual content, and mature themes including power imbalance and infidelity.

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: 2 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: 2 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: 2 GB available space
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