Anode Heart

Buy91%

Very Positive · 468 player reviews · Low confidence

Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows
  • macOS

Stove Powered Games · Adventure · Nov 17, 2023

Player review score
91%
Very Positive
Price
$17.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
49
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
2
Full audio0 of 2
Subtitles0 of 2

Should I buy Anode Heart?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 139 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story: 89 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Combat: 49 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Difficulty: 31 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Interface: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Controls: 4 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 468 player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise25% are divided25% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
139 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Digimon World 1 for the PS1 was my biggest comfort game when I was young, and I've been looking for ages for more games that had this wonderful system of going around an open world to bring people to your town and see it build.
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
89 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The only things I liked are the graphics and the story setting.
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
49 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Simple, but very effective combat that we enjoy greatly, even after 70+ hours.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
20 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics and music are pretty solid too overall, its not as crazy as a game like Coromon with creatures that constantly move slightly in their idle animation but its definitely a comfy game if you enjoyed the ds to gameboy era of pokemon games.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
19 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The soundtrack of the game when going in open areas feels like such a calm and relaxing feeling of exploration, where it is inviting you to catch more and more beings, level up and just grind as much as you can for that perfect monster that you captured, making them useful to the point of only using them or even using an entire team of 6 monsters at your arsenal, it is up to you on how to play it.
Steam Deck
Players who bring up Steam Deck mostly praise it.
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Works great on Steam Deck, which is where I've been mostly playing it.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay139 reviews
Story89 reviews
Combat49 reviews
Graphics20 reviews
Audio19 reviews
Steam Deck6 reviews
Divided opinion
Bugs
100% still recommend
Characters
100% still recommend
Optimization
0% still recommend
Players complain
Difficulty
84% still recommend
Interface
79% still recommend
Controls
75% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

  • DualSense Controller Support
  • DualShock Controller Support
  • Partial Controller Support

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud

Platforms

  • Windows
  • macOS

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$17.99

The lowest we've tracked is $5.57.

7 points recordedtoday · $17.99

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