Where the Heart Leads is an adventure developed by Armature Studio, released 13 July 2021 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Where the Heart Leads is
Where the Heart Leads is an adventure game developed by Armature Studio and released in 2021. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On the kind of stormy night that can change a person's destiny, an enormous sinkhole opens in the middle of Whit Anderson's farm. Braving the rumbling thunder and the driving rain, Casey - their curious Golden Retriever - ventures too close to the gaping maw and tumbles in. Desperate to save her, Whit descends into the darkness, and emerges in a realm beyond his imagining. In this strange world, constantly shifting like the stops and starts of a dream, Whit bears witness to the story of his life and gains the power to change it.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Where the Heart Leads holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Where the Heart Leads launched on 13 July 2021, within three weeks of The Forgotten City, Death's Door, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! and Final Fantasy. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Forgotten City, Death's Door, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, Final Fantasy.
Official trailer
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