Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

About This Game

Welcome to Your Hearthside

Hearthside: Your Custom Fireplace is an ultra-customizable ambient fireplace simulator and cozy desktop productivity companion. Whether you need a warm backdrop while studying, reading, coding, or unwinding after a long day, Hearthside is designed to be your personal digital comfort zone.

Interactive Dynamic Islands & Productivity

Hearthside isn't just an idle screen—it's an interactive workstation companion featuring sleek, expandable Dynamic Island widgets that float gracefully over your hearth:

• Pomodoro Focus Timer: Boost your productivity with customizable focus sessions, short breaks, and long breaks with audio cues.

• Interactive Task List: Jot down daily to-dos, check off completed items, and drag-and-drop tasks to prioritize your day.

• Custom Timers & Stopwatch: Set quick alarms for water breaks, reminders, or track your work sprints.

• Minimalist Clocks & Calendar: Keep track of time with clean digital and analog clock faces.

• Cozy Notes: Keep quick reminders, inspirational thoughts, or scratchpad notes right beside the fire.

• Dock, Drag & Resize: Freely reposition, collapse into compact pills, or resize your islands to fit your workflow.

Desktop Companion Modes

Keep the fire burning while you work, browse, or play other games:

• Floating Transparent Overlay: Strip away the room and float a borderless, transparent fire directly over your desktop windows, IDE, or browser.

• Docked Sidebar Mode: Snap Hearthside to the left or right of your monitor like a dedicated sidebar dock, keeping your fire and productivity islands neatly stacked in view.

• Always-on-Top Support: Keep your cozy fire visible above all other active desktop windows.

Deep Fireplace & Room Customization

Craft your dream fireplace down to the smallest detail:

• 50+ Wall Styles: Cycle through dozens of wall textures across multiple material groups including Brick, Wood, Tile, Marble, Metal, and Festive.

• Custom Wall Text & Quotes: Write your own personal messages, favorite motivational quotes, or goals directly onto the brickwork in custom fonts and colors.

• Custom Art Gallery & Slideshow: Place your own photos or digital artwork on the wall. Display a single framed piece, or load a folder of images to cycle through a smooth carousel slideshow.

• Fire & Smoke Dynamics: Choose from multiple log arrangements, adjust fire size from a gentle glow to a roaring blaze, and fine-tune flame speed, opacity, smoke, and floating embers.

• Full Color Control: Customize the exact color of the flames, glowing coals, and walls using full RGB palettes.

Ambient sounds & Audio

Layer immersive soundscapes to create your ultimate acoustic sanctuary:

• Layered Nature Sounds: Mix and match soothing background environments including thunderstorms, winter howling winds, peaceful creeks, rain and wilderness breezes.

• Cozy Lo-Fi & Acoustic Soundtrack: Enjoy hours of built-in curated music spanning Lo-Fi beats, Celtic folk, and peaceful Piano tracks.

• Local Music Folder Player: Point Hearthside to any folder on your PC to load and play your personal music collection directly through the in-game audio player.

• Fire Acoustics: Customize the volume and crackle tone of the burning logs.

Presets, Controls & Accessibility

• Camera Angles: Seamlessly switch between cinematic wide-room views, tight hearth close-ups, and cozy side perspectives.

• Accessibility & Colorblind Support: Built-in colorblind simulation LUT filters (Protanopia, Deuteranopia, Tritanopia, Achromatopsia) with customizable intensity, UI scaling, and full keyboard/gamepad rebinding.

Roadmap & Future Updates

Hearthside continues to expand with new community-driven content:

• Additional seasonal fireplace materials and seasonal room decor.

• Expanded ambient soundscapes and new built-in music volumes.

• Community feature requests and enhanced widget types.

• Pre-crafted holiday and seasonal styles—including spooky Halloween setups, cozy winter holidays, and more.

• Save your favorite combinations of fire, lighting, music, and walls to instant preset slots.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Music and some ambience sounds.