Rivalhearts

Experience university life, love, and strife!

Join Noah in his first year of university as he decides to overcome his heartache, pursuing either a tomboy classmate, cougar doctor, or junior-year goth! Navigate the worlds of love through differing highs and lows, with a pestering but cute best friend to supervise along the way!

Every scene is individually drawn!

What you see visually in the game accurately matches what is happening for all scenes. This isn't done in most games due to it's immense cost, but we know it's necessary to make the best game we can. The effect is a mash-up of a visual novel and an anime, where general narration is almost entirely absent since we can just show what's happening, letting dialogue take the spotlight.

An immersive, voiced adventure!

Voices from CrystalAvenger, BayDoxey, Aife, and more...

Hear every currently-seen characters' voice line-for-line, from 6 distinct and professional voice actors! For the full list, just check the in-game credits! You can even tweak the volume of each character to your liking. Because it's one thing to read romance or bickering, it's another to hear it said directly to you.

It's free! Forever!

Not only is Rivalhearts free, but it will stay free for every new update, thanks to patrons. Even when the game is complete, it will still be free. It won't be just a small project, either. We plan on having 16 episodes in total, with three distinct routes that each tell their own story. That's a lot of game to play!

Guided and funded by fans.

Rivalhearts Links: Discord | X/Twitter | Patreon

Studio Spiritus is the independent team of 3 created to develop and self-publish Rivalhearts. Rather than sacrificing artistic liberties by receiving funding from publishers, annoying players with ads, or selling an incomplete game, development is instead fueled entirely by generous fans who share our vision. We can't do it without them, and that makes them the boss.

Now, here's the catch...

We have a lot planned, but it isn't all out yet. The pilot alone took many months to develop, and new episodes will too, due to our strive for quality. With that said, episodes after episode 1 release in order of the top-voted route, so expect substantial story updates quicker than that! There are also many cool features we're interested in exploring. Just let us cook a bit.

The Studio Spiritus Team

Below are the current team members and their positions, which we'd love to expand with more expertise to create an even better game!

Aiden Hagan - Creator / Programmer / Writer

The madman himself.

Yuukinaime - Artist / Graphic Designer

The talented woman who creates the art and characters.

Robert S. Sanchez - Quality Assurance

The visual novel expert who weeds out most of the crazy ideas.

And that's a wrap, folks!
Thank you for reading , and we hope you can try out Rivalhearts!