Isla Hearts v0.1.0

Lost another three levels to a slime girl on floor four. Not even a boss, just some random encounter with goo physics and a hip sway that should be illegal. The game doesn't care about your dignity. Fragment Tower just watches you fail and then Queen Isla, that pixelated bitch at the top, literally sucks the experience points out of your character while you sit there questioning your life choices. The corruption mechanic is where things get properly unhinged. Every enemy has this seduction attack that chips away at your resistance stat, and the visual novel scenes that follow are... specific. Like, someone on the dev team spent way too long thinking about exactly how a dark mage would whisper filth into your ear while her magic drains your willpower. The writing during these moments has this broken english charm that somehow makes it hotter, like reading dirty messages from someone who learned the language just to tell you exactly what they want to do. There's this one scene with a shadow tentacle thing where the dialogue is so awkwardly phrased it loops back around to being genuinely erotic. Can't explain it. The RPG part is barebones as hell. Click attack, click defend, watch numbers go down. But losing is the whole point, right? That's what I keep telling myself. You climb this tower, you get corrupted, you either resist or give in, and giving in costs you levels permanently. The romance paths with certain enemies caught me off guard though. Wasn't expecting to actually want the corrupted knight lady to remember my character's name. She doesn't. She just takes another level and calls me a good boy. Anyway the tower resets every run but the corruption carries over somehow and I still don't understand the math behind it.

• visual novel
• role playing
• seduction
• tower
• singleplayer