The Void Rains Upon Her Heart

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One of the best bullet hell games

Defect my beloved

I don't really talk about this game enough for how much I actually enjoy it. When I mention my favorite games, I usually say the ones everyone knows, but if I made an actual list, THIS GAME is on there, no question. The style in this game is immaculate, like Kirby Meets Evangelion Meets Oneshot. The gameplay is a traditional bullet hell, but always fun to play, every fight feels unique thanks to the monster level system. The several different game modes will leave you NEVER feeling bored, that plus the fact that this game has more unlocks than fucking ISAAC, should tell you plenty about the replayability of this game. Oh and at the time of writing this, it's not even done yet!!! This shit is peak fiction!!! And it's so cheap!!!! Please pick it up!!! It needs WAY more recognition!!!!

Unfortunately not challenging enough, even on the hardest difficulty. Ships in general feel really boring to control. I like the panic attack mechanic and all of the bonuses for breaking things, but the upgrades you get for doing so feel inane and often useless. The main attack of each ship gives no variety, the only interesting thing is the charge shot which is saying something. The writing is also not a strong point, lots of very annoying characters.
Only grab if you're the kind of person who loves TBOI style unlock grinding, and find classic shmup offerings too difficult.

definitely worth, casual and fun with lots of replayability

A timeless game. 10/10

If you like boss fight game and you are a completionist you will love this game. With 24 hours already, i only have 32 % of the 738 achivements currently in the game. I was not really into roguelike to begin with but this one stuck with me and the others game mode like quickplay let you customize your battle with every boss to master each of the 100's of boss. I guess getting all the achivement will requires grind and i will most likely never get all of them since it does requires a lot of replay but overall i would reccomend.

its good

I could write an epic poem about this one, but it'd get lost in the sea of other loving reviews.
just adding my heart then

Monsters flirt with me :3

Rivals Binding of Issac in the amount of content this game provides, and its still in EA. Hands down belongs in the conversation for one of the best roguelites around. Get it now.

hell yeah

No other bullet-hell rogue-like is truly different and set by difficulty and tests your skills over the luck of your items. The feelings of despair, blended at the same time with love sets a pretty, uplifting narrative about loving monsters and showing them a better perspective. You control a "Heart" which is where you reside and fire your hearts out to the unfathomable amount of bosses, each with their own weakness, and mini challenges which come out as achievements. The patterns are frantic and defeating each one brings a sense of relief, accomplishment, determination to reach the end of each run. Since its also being actively updated, there is still so much more to expect within this already massive game. Character story lines, bosses, items, and game modes will continue to come out. And an incredible amount of love and respect to the singular developer and creator of the game. This is so fun to play, heart lifting to observe, and just a beauty to experience.

This game has some of the most replay-ability I've ever seen in a game before. There's so much to do in it that its just constant gain even if you fail a run. With it over 700 achievements in game it allows you to play differently almost every single run and continue to gain access to more stuff the more you play. I've hardly reached 10% of a save and I'm already in love with this game. Definitely recommend this game to those out there that enjoy rougelite bullet hells.

I fear the man who can play this game with a glass buttplug.

an underrated gem of a game with classic shmup mechanics but with every monster having a unique personality to their attackset

A lovely rougelike with a huge amount of content, genuinely great skill based progression

This is my first time reviewing and I'm usually not keen on giving reviews but for this game I always find myself coming back to it and for good reason. It has so much content and such good game play I recommend it to anyone who enjoys this type of game or is looking to try a game like this

I am only a few hours in but I can tell this is my kind of game. The bullet dodging reminds me of the way Isaac feels.. The fun of constant unlocks is great. Great job! The story is... different.

Don't let the early access tag fool you, This game has been receiving very frequent updates on the regular with the developers constantly pushing out patch notes. on top of that, this game has an achievements list that has begun to dwarf the binding of Isaac in terms of size, with each achievement (as far as i'm aware) unlocking something, whether it be a new monster to fight, a new event, a new item to find in your runs or even just new background music. you won't find any other early access game thats brimming with things to find like this one.

Gameplay is a pretty standard bullet hell styled game with each boss having their own types of attack patterns which change based on the level of the boss you are fighting. on top of that every boss has 2 goals you can attempt to do to unlock more things for your runs.

if you like bullet hells and roguelikes this game should 100% be on your to play list.

Henry Darger's Kirby Super Star

To the dev who made this game, thank you. I can feel every bit of passion that you have put into this project. Where the game is at already is more than enough, but you continue to update and add more into this beautiful game. Seriously, thank you

Great game I definitely recommend it

After 100 hrs can say this games a masterpiece no doubt about it, Theres just endless amount of things to do and always something new to discover. The skill progression is good as you can always stick with the easier battles but you also slowly start to get good at the shmup mechanics and can challenge the harder bosses. The gifts (power ups) also give leniency to those harder battles that might be over your current skill level so you have a chance at em.

Also I have to mention how amazing the characters and dialogues are. It just warms my soul when reading mcs and monsters talk and makes me wanna hug them too. The dev has also added to EVERYTHING a lil pokedex entry that you can read if you want to know more and these entries detail for example monsters personalities and insecurities. I cant wait for the version 9.0 when rest of the lore will start to be added.

Tvruhh has def became one of my all time favorite videogames. Thanks and Much love to you Veyeral <3

Odd story and dialogue in my opinion, but the game play mechanics and content more than make up for it. Fun no matter how good you are at bullet hell's, and has an amazing solo dev working on it.

Game is absolutely fantastic and easily one of my favorite roguelites. While I don't play a lot of bullet hells, the mechanics feel really solid and tight. The game has a huge amount of unlocks and variety in runs as well. Even 60 hours in, my save file is only around 50% or so, with new content and unlocks being added every patch. The story, while incomplete, feels very personal and touching. The music slaps too.

All in all, I highly recommend this game if you are interested in either roguelites or bullet hells. Heck, you might like it even if you don't play either.

More people need to play this game oh my goodness gracious me my oh,

Splendiferous gameplay indeed, with exquisite art and enthralling lore, a bullet hell roguelite unlike any other.
We have found peak.

Whatever your getting paid, its not enough. 10/10. a truly indie game

We need more games like this. Oozing with style, passion and creativity. I've never played a shoot-em-up before but when I saw it in a Yakkocmn video(bless you yakko) I knew I needed to play it at first glance, and I was soooo right.

What's great about the gameplay? Few buttons you have to press but a lot of depth in each one. Even a button that just slows you down allows for so much creativity in how you dodge attacks it's insane. But the best mechanic that makes the game so fun is the love combo - if you don't hit the boss for a second or take damage, you lose the combo. It's that simple, but it changes how you play completely and forces you to actively think, "how do I both dodge an attack and keep hitting the boss, preferably also hitting the breakable parts of the boss? Do I need to use a panic to keep my combo or do I greed it for a harder attack?". And a lot of attacks are intentionally designed to make you want to dodge them in a way that'll lose you the combo.

The other kind of gameplay is out-of-combat and it's also nothing like I've seen in other roguelites. When you've just started playing the game, you don't even know which boss you're gonna fight and what rewards you're gonna get, basically going in blind. There's no stat upgrades between runs, instead you upgrade your KNOWLEDGE by revealing the bosses and items in between runs - the higher your scores, the more currency you get to reveal stuff. Gradually, you go from blind to half-blind, now you can choose between going for a safe option you've revealed or pray to the RNG gods that you get a good item. This is essentially the difficulty slider, because as you reveal items and unlock events that allow you to trade items, the game gets a lot easier. But at the same time you unlock new modes, harder difficulties, new bosses, new characters and even more items to make up for that a bit. Honestly, I think the game is more fun before you've unlocked everything, but I don't think you can get around that.

The bosses? They are amazing, plenty of variety and creativity in designs in attacks and I love the classifications of them into different types. But there's an elephant in the room and it's that there's a lot of bosses that are "reskins" of the other bosses with a different color and similar attacks. Of course I'd rather have them than not as they still add variety and challenge but it does make the "100+ bosses!" claim a bit misleading.

The characters? The designs are unique and cute, and not just the playable characters, a lot of the bosses have a cute girlified "true form". Because this is a game about loving and not beating the bosses, there's a lot of dialogue between each character and monster, it's very cute and cheesy and I love it. Every character is a girl! A lot of monsters have their events that you encounter in between battles which feature different mini games and dialogue for some variety in between battles.

The big no no for most people I've seen complain about the game is the "nudity", but there's no genitals or nipples drawn and personally I stopped even perceiving it as nudity after I played the game for a bit. Embarrassed to play the game in front of your friends and family? Your loss buddy, tell them that they are wrong and ackchyually, this game rocks.

Also, don't let the Early Access scare you off, there's plenty of content already that is MORE than worth the price. There are still some bosses and events to be added and the story of some characters is unfinished but that's about it. A word of appreciation for the absolute madlad that is Veyerals for making a game like this alone and going at it with his own vision for years, keep it up king we'll be there for the final release!

Absolute peakium. If you like bullet hells you'll probably like this pawsome game

Wonderful bullet hell that pleasantly surprised me with just how much there is to do and the whole game is brimming with creativity and passion. looking forward to all future updates.

I am not a fan of bullet hell games, but I decided to give this game a try after seeing a youtuber give the game a glowing review a few months back. After 89 hours, I am shocked to find that, if anything, they undersold the game.

This game is amazing. Everything from how the difficulty curve is handled, to getting new unlocks, to lore progression, is handled beautifully. It is a little jarring at first with everything being ???? that you can see, but soon you are struck with dopamine hit after dopamine hit as new things manifest at a steady but not overwhelming clip. There are tons of enemies and numerous different patterns to learn for each enemy that all feel like a natural progression of difficulty.

To me, the single best design choice, that brings together the whole concept of the game, is how the character you play is designed. You are a little heart that stands out against all the clutter that can fill the screen, making it reasonable to keep track of your character, but your actual hit box is a small circle in the center of the heart. This gives you a constant feeling of "I dodged that attack by a hair" while mostly avoiding the feeling of "that should not have hit me."

I do have 3 tiny gripes, though they are insignificant in the face of how much good this game has. First, the devils ability to get stronger via getting hurt feels very out of place. The game rewards and incentivizes damage avoidance above all else, so this feature works only as a pity system for bad play. Second, the mechanics that punish you for leaving yellow safety circles in some fights can feel a little short. This is the one area where I do feel I am getting robbed half the time, where I leave the circle to avoid an attack before going back only to take damage on almost the same frame as re-entering the safe zone. That window could be widened slightly. Finally, there is an absence of a zap element character (this might be coming in the future, as I have not seen the roadmap for future content yet.)

Great game, I strongly recommend getting it.

outside of the battles, i'm having a hard time figuring out what everything means. perhaps i'll play the tutorial again. very fun game though. beautiful visuals and music.

Easily one of the best games I've ever played. A truly hard rogue like bullet hell about depression. What more can you ask for?

This game is great, such an addicting gem for absolutely no reason.

8/10 the characters are a little weird but its got heart, literally.

Game: 9.9/10 Art: 9.5/10 Difficulty: 7.5/10 Achievements: 10/10 Music: 10/10
I love the concept of this game! I love boss rushes and getting cards that give power-ups!!! The pixel art is super good! The music is SO GOOD! My favorite part is that there is so much stuff to unlock and then when you finally do unlock the stuff its just so satisfying! I love unlocking new monsters to love and seeing how they are all different and fun in cool ways! Overall this is probably one of the best games i have ever played! But when you play it just know. Nudity warning!

This game is extremely fun and has an absurd amount of content. It's also easier to get into than you'd expect.

Amazing Shmup and Roguelite combination. The meta progression is really well done where in the run you can get ? upgrades, but outside the run you can spend currency on each one so that you know which upgrade it is during a run. You can also unlock enemies to face individually outside of a run. I always feel like I am progressing and getting more stuff. The shmup aspect is excellent for many reasons. You can choose your fine tuned difficulty in several modes, in particular during the roguelite mode by selecting difficulty, and also during the run you can choose higher or lower level monsters. A solo dev made the entire game and it's a huge amount of content with 100+ bosses, tons of items and different modes & characters. This game is really a stand out gem. Each of the bosses really has different attack patterns and movements. Another cool aspect is that there are many achievements, and each boss has 2 achievements where you may have to play in a different way. Scoring higher nets you more currency and a higher chance at better items, which you do by not getting hit, breaking as many components off the monster, and by maintaining a full combo by not missing the monster for more than a couple seconds. Breaking off as many components itself is a cool mechanic to strive for in each battle. Another cool aspect is that the same monster can be low level or high level and will have its difficulty scaled based on level. This is a game where I feel like playing more and more. I'll also add that there is a nice bit of story and story progression in this game, as well as cool little mini-games that you encounter during a run.

This is like Eragon meets Henry Darger meets Touhou. An auteur's pastiche masterpiece, a life's work if I've ever seen one. Mechanically-refined to a T, I'm obsessed with this universe because Veyerals is obsessed with this universe. I just wonder how many girls portrayed in this story even know they're a part of it? ;) Everything I've typed here is a sincere, deep compliment, including the fact that I've never experienced something so autism-coded.

Roguelikes have Dwarf Fortress. Shmups have The Void Rains Upon Her Heart. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got 267 achievements to go.

The definition of a hidden gem, this game feels like the binding of isaac if it was a shmup and I adore it, incredible boss design and bullet patterns, with a charm that tickles me like no other to boot, and with consistent updates adding more content (on top of the content I haven't gotten to yet) it feels like there's never a run just to do a run, everything unlocks more things and the loop is very satisfying, highly recommended

The videos on the store page really betray how satisfying this game is mechanically. Its incredibly fun to play and I really enjoy the absurd amount of variety in bosses, items, unlocks and dialogue.
At 37 hours I have ~220 of 700-something achievements, and with each achievement, there is an unlock associated with it.
The story and art style took some getting used to, but it grew on me over time and the message is really sweet.
9/10 - If you're on the fence but enjoy roguelikes, shoot-em-ups, bullet hell games, ect. you'll be pleasantly surprised

I don't understanding anything about the progression system or the story, but the gameplay is so fun that it doesn't really matter. Highly recommended.

Charming, underrated, hard as f**k

Game being in Early Access for 7 years can mean 2 things - either devs dont give a shit about it, or by now said game far exceeds fully released games in both content and quality, and this one is the latter. Over 100 bosses, over 100 upgrades (hell maybe even over 200), over 700 achievements, original soundtrack, unique mechanics, fairly regular updates, and all of this done by a solo dev. I truly wish this game would blow up, cause it has every mean to be successful. The only 2 things preventing this to happen is if you don't like bullet hells, in which case you would get skilled issued real quick, or really mild nudity (which can be turned off), that would turn off some people from the game, but few hours in you won't even notice it anymore, since it's not shoved in your face whatsoever. What is shoved in your face, however, is hundreds of projectiles flying at you faster than when your father left you.. well except those projectiles retract and return back, unlike your father, in higher level bossfights, whilst you need to find one millimeter spot in all of that flying bullshi* to avoid said projectiles.. same as you avoided your parents when they argued (am not projecting here).

But honestly 99% on Steam reviews is speaking for itself. It's been quite some time since I unironically could say that something is a true hidden gem, and this one for sure is.

A true labor of love, nominated it as such. Superb gameplay, heartfelt story and mood, great soundtrack. Reasonable duration runs in Story mode with multiple other game modes.

Story put short is, you are a fairy like creature who can't fly, despite this you want to spread love and understanding for all, every monster has something good and beautiful in them just like you, even if social norms say you have to be this or be able to do that or look like this or behave like that. You are stuck in an endless repeating nightmare like realm where it won't stop raining, the monsters forget who they are and the good they are capable of but with a bit of love from you they will remember even if only for a short time. To keep trying and spread love and joy even if the task is doomed to be repeated, your efforts forgotten, and never really truly succeed is a powerful message.

As for gameplay, the dynamic difficulty system is excellent, if you are feeling strong you can choose higher level bosses to fight and if you go overboard the game will at times offer to lower the level of the creatures for you. Sometimes they have more or better rewards, sometimes you just love fighting one boss over another. I have had moments where I felt like a gamer god with superb loadout and started challenging the most bullet hell horrors the game has to offer and sometimes I just want to have a semi relaxing semi challenging run. There is a LOT of variety in what you face, and the level of the creature you face can and will drastically change how they work or even the environment they exist in, not just amount or speed of projectiles.

Lots of metaprogression which I am fine with even if I know some might not be, you want to complete different objectives for the various bosses to unlock new stuff and farm some of the different colored Tetrids for more unlocking. For me it is just a bit of incentive and has not really bothered me. It all progresses reasonably.

The concept of just boss rushes is perfect for me as those are generally the most interesting parts of shmups, and even then the variety in this game also helps to prevent it from getting stale, lots of different vulnerabilities and strengths to watch out for. You got varying damage and resistance types, tons of powerups, helpers, weapon modifiers, Panic attack/bomb equivalents and so on. Such great amounts of content to build your runs with, or customize a specific one in the alternate game modes. I will always come back to this game to experience the joy of playing and seeing all the creatures I love again.

Love all the monsters, we are all beautiful in our own ways.

This game is seriously good, I have no idea how I have never heard about it until now. If you have any interest in bullet hell games, this is an easy recommendation.

My hours played is a bit bugged for some reason but it just read over 12 hours this morning and I clocked in another few- Ive only had it for 2 days. I'm genuinely obsessed beyond comprehension. The gameplay is riddled with the passion and authenticity from the developer. I can only imagine whats to come with a full release.

Most games make me put on a background noise as the music becomes grating. This game's OST perfectly fits the vibes. The repetition has not once gotten on my nerves - I thought that was impossible. Im at the point Im hoping for some sort of CD or Vinyl release.

This is one of those once in a lifetime indie games, with the easy parallel being Undertale. The bullet hell system is leagues better here. The roguelike genre makes it far more my leage, with impeccable game design for the genre. The upgrades and unlocks dont feel intrusive to the difficulty in any way! Finally, I feel I must touch on the story.

While it currently feels like flavor, I am in high hopes far more is to be added. I have only completed about 20% of the game so far, but due to how it tracks progress, Im led to believe Ive seen a solid chunk of the story and a most of the work in progress esc dialog. I see a solid story so far, and hope as the characters get fleshed out and have storylines they'll become just as if not more memorable than a lot of Undertale characters.

Im confident if this game had the cultural backing Undertale had from name recognition through Homestuck, and people weren't babies about artistic nudity thats NOT BAD AT ALL??? It'd be a huge success far beyond what niche pocket of the internet it holds space in currently.

Heres to a full release that matches my expectations as the audience. /j
No, I feel however the developer goes about making this game will be optimal for it's vibes. Even if it never got another update, i fear it is already a top 5 game in my books of all time and favorite currently.

Thank you immensely for this game.

I was expecting to not like this game as much as I did, mainly because I think trying to make a shmup/bullet hell into a roguelite is conceptually not a great idea. I decided to grab it anyways since it was getting great reviews and the developer clearly put a lot of passion into it. I still am not totally convinced that this makes a great bullet hell game, but if you go into it looking for a unique-ish bullet hell themed roguelite, then I think you'll have a lot of fun. I'm not a fan of the story at all (reminds me too much of the area I grew up in/people I grew up around) and end up skimming the text while mashing through it, but the sheer amount of modes, unlockables, and variations on weapons/bosses has kept me coming back for multiple runs.

I don't know how much i'd recommend this to my friends who like shmups, since it takes a while to get difficult and the random nature of powerups can make runs vary wildly. I am definitely not the best at them (still don't have an arcade clear, mostly because I bounce from game to game rather than grinding anything) but even with my mild experience I found the default unlocked difficulties boring, and difficulty 3 takes about half the run to ramp into something challenging. However, for people who are new to bullet hells, this is a great entry point. It teaches you about focus mode and hitboxes not matching your full sprite, and gives metaprogression rewards for doing good bombs and scoring well. It incentivizes you to try and play around scoring bosses, without making the entire run hinge on how well you can pull it off. I also really like the metaprogression in this game, I was worried that it would just be "make the game easier lol", and while there's a tiny bit of that it's mostly unlocking information. You can unlock bosses to practice against in a score attack mode, and you can unlock powerup info to be able to view them as rewards before you choose a boss. So while it definitely helps, it's not necessary. There's also an absolute boatload of achievements, so if you're like me and you love those, here's a game for you!

In short, i'd say that if you're new to bullet hells/shmups, and for some reason don't want to play arcade games yet, this is a good entry point. It teaches you fundamentals, reinforces helpful skills, and will show you some common patterns shared across multiple games. Also, if you like bullet hells, and are okay with this being more of a roguelite than a standard STG experience, then I'd also recommend this game. Apparently there's some mild debate over the nudity in this game? I didn't even really notice it, it's just a bunch of fantasy creatures shaped like humans and they're not really sexualized at all

Juegazo. Probablemente el mejor bullet-hell shmup que haya jugado nunca.

Tiene un montonazo de contenido, es súper divertido, tiene mucha variedad, la música es genial, es buenísimo.