At its core, Heartbound is a charming indie game about a boy and his dog. It takes place from a top-down perspective, just like the old-school 16-bit style roleplaying games that inspired it.

At first glance, Heartbound looks like a nostalgia trip. Its Steam page describes it as a “non-traditional RPG,” with hand-drawn pixel-art graphics and a jazzy, catchy chiptune soundtrack, in the ...

Janus Metz was at TIFF 2017 with the gala opening night film, Borg vs. McEnroe. This year the Danish filmmaker returns with a smaller passion project, documentary Heartbound, which he co-directs with ...

Leif Conti-Groome is a staff writer at DualShockers who mainly focuses on indie games and crowdfunding campaigns. He was a contributor to the niche game podcast Total Control and he frequently lends ...

Marcus Estrada is a Contributor from USA writing for the Digital Publication Hardcore Gamer. His favorite genres include horror, visual novel, rhythm and platformer. When it comes to many indie RPGs, ...

The developer of RPG Heartbound has a deep love of secrets and crypto puzzles, and as such has hidden information and things within every single thing created in regards to the game. From public ...

Pirate Software's claim that Heartbound can run on a smart fridge has been scrutinized. The game isn't natively running on the fridge's hardware. Instead, it's mirrored from another device, like a ...

A film ten years in the making, anthropologist Sine Plambech and her director husband Janus Metz’s open a door with Heartbound onto an intriguing humanist story dealing with the complexities of life, ...

Lou Contaldi specializes in both reviews and the business behind gaming. He began writing about tech and video games while getting his Juris Doctor at Hofstra University School of Law. He is maybe the ...

Jason Thor Hall, popularly known as Pirate Software, has repeatedly made an eye-catching, bold claim about his game Heartbound. As per him, the game can run on a smart fridge. The assertion, which was ...