Heaven Will Be Mine

Incredible game.
Very dense in text and information, so you have to like that, but it hits you so hard in the guts and the heart, please go play it.

You want a game with the most mundane gameplay and the steamiest subtext? I don't think you'll find a better one.

If you're queer or more specifically transfem, and a bit of a freak, this game could change your life. Continued proof that visual novels are amazing ways to tell stories, just as any other game or media. I am irrevocably changed due to this game. The music by Alec Lambert dynamically timed with the story is so perfect. It may not be such a groundbreaking story for everyone, and it is caked in layers upon layers of metaphor and definitions that are different from our own, and yet it still is straightforward and plenty easy to understand it all without much effort. 11 hrs to 100% the achievements and maybe a little more to guarantee seeing every text box and line and yet this feels deeper and more immersive than many 40+ hour games can be. If its not something that changes you, it still can be a very good story to experience. Its only downsides are the confusion it may cause from only playing as one character and not getting all the endings. While the mechanics may look similar, and there may be overlap in the characters interactions, there is still wildly different backgrounds for all 3 characters and it is well enhanced by playing all parts. As long as you change up your choices, it very much should not feel tedious and repetitive to play through each character and ending. Repeating content doesn't feel like a necessity of just seeing different dialogue for the sake of completion, but instead can give a deeper perspective on who the characters are and their backgrounds and relationships with each other.

Very confusing.
Repetitive, and couldn't find the skip button.

#yurigaming #gamingandyuri #iloveyuri

Lesbians ツ

if you are a lesbian you should play this game

If you like mechs and space you need to play this game.
If you are a lesbian you need to play this game.
If you enjoy interesting philosophy you need to play this game.
You need to play this game.

this game is so good, it scratches that exact brain wrinkle that those space SCPs and Interstellar do, in a good way. the game loves space so much, and all the concepts it throws out are really interesting, although not exactly understandable. after all, the vibe is what matters. the only caveat is that the writing sometimes isn't as good, like the sentences straight up don't make sense, but maybe it's just me not being good at english

10/10

barring me yearning to know more about the worldbuilding behind Culture and gravity Yeah. super good VN. the ability to pretty much restructure the relationships based on the choices you make throughout the game (especially with LT and Saturn) endeared me very much, and as someone who came here from We Know The Devil i got all the metaphor work i expected. so. trans girls in robots. with loneliness and alienation and political conflict. and kissing. don't expect TOO much from the multichoice logic as the stories from the perspective of the three protagonists are deeply intertwined, there's some repetition, but the additional info from every new POV makes it very fun. shoutout to alternative forms of intimacy that can happen when robots in space

important context: i love yuri but i love good writing more. i am a lover of literary fiction. i believe that a visual novel, in order to carry its name, should at least attempt to meet writing standards that novels are held up to.

i am very disappointed that this game's premise and music are bogged down so heavily by horrible writing. it reads like a sixth grader's first foray into wattpad fanfiction. i don't mean this in the sense of worldbuilding, character development, plot, etc., i'm talking about structural issues. was there nobody revising this script? there is an annoying grammar mistake in every other sentence. if you are someone who enjoys reading, this will stick out in a way that hinders your ability to enjoy and READ the game. if you are asking me to take you seriously as a visual NOVEL, you need to take it upon yourself to make your game's writing readable at least. i mean seriously, one of the first big pieces of text you read has a sentence commit the sin of consecutive prepositional phrases. that's something you're taught not to do in introductory writing/grammar classes. articles are missing (which is just sloppy). the game doesn't properly shift tone in its usage of grammar to signal differences between text communication and manifestos, etc., so it all just becomes a mess of awkward sentences and unclear tone. it is all very, very sloppy and lowkey offensive (you're charging people $15 to buy an unedited visual novel?) i tried to overlook it and play anyway despite it almost immediately putting me off, but it's to the point where i find the game unreadable and just irritating.

i'm sure not everyone will care as much as i do. but in my opinion, if you are going to call yourself a visual novel, you need to invest at least any amount of time into editing your writing. this really turns me off of the developer; if you don't care about writing, the NOVEL part of Visual Novel, why are you making one? if you care at all about the art of novels, this kind of stuff feels almost disrespectful. make a different type of game if you're not willing to actually care enough to deliver good writing for a visual novel. VNs arent a genre you turn to when you can't make more complicated gameplay.

i debated continuing as i admittedly only played for a short time, but this is the kind of flaw that doesn't tend to resolve itself with progress. and going off what other reviews (with longer playtimes) say, i'm done. other reviewers seem to be calling this game's writing pretentious purple prose, but it's not. it cannot even attempt to be purple prose because it has not yet learned how to use commas.

very sad about this one, as i looked forward to buying and reading for months. i only recommend it to those with low standards for this kind of stuff + dont care (but you should. you really should).

Game so nice I bought it twice!

esoteric lesbianism

Worst Girls Games deconstructed the mecha genre to its base components, understood exactly what makes it work, then rebuilt it into something sharper than anything before. You should be required to play this before you're allowed to write Gundam.

Gods I am very lesbian

Gay

Heaven Will Be Mine feels like the offspring of a mecha anime and a Judith Butler book. Mechanically, it is very similar to Worst Girls Games' previous title We Know the Devil, and the music and art are both still fantastic and evocative, but the writing is much denser and there's a lot more of it. Queerness is explored on a very theoretical level, hence the Butler comparison, but of course the narrative is also very queer in terms of both content (trans people, lesbians, wow!) and structure (there's no simplistic binary good/bad endings here). I would absolutely recommend this to anyone interested in understanding queerness from a deeper philosophical perspective -- but a lot of this heavier writing is kept in optional texts, so I would still recommend this is you just want to see girls making out in space (and really, who would blame you?).

I need a girl to talk about me the same way Saturn talks about String of Pearls.

Hi.

If you like 'abstract' worldbuilding, weird mecha & weirder women, and relationships fraught with complications, I recommend this. It's a “shortish” visual novel where you play a total of three routes, with a handful of different endings and choices leading to different narrative beats. Like everything ever made, it’s not for everyone—a lot about it feels niche, tailored to a specific audience, and I love that about it. I wouldn’t say it’s inaccessible to people outside of that niche at all; the 'abstract' storytelling is likely the biggest roadblock to parsing it.

Because the routes can feel repetitive as some scenes repeat (some don’t), I recommend waiting a bit before playing each character. Maybe write down some notes using the Steam Notes feature on what choices you made so you can maximize seeing unique stuff on every character’s route.

This visual novel would have benefited from having an autoskip for things already seen. It’s missing accessibility features; some of the screen filters would benefit from having the option to turn them off. If you have sensitive eyes, play it in a window.

I found myself wishing for more unique scenes for each character; the character intended to be the first felt like she got the most love. The writing is very atmospheric, it didn't blow me away but I would not say it was written badly either. Overall, I’m glad I played it!

Be a gay disaster in space and make out with your "enemies". Have existentialist self-crises. What more could you ask for?

Starting with the bad things - I feel like the text could use some proofreading, there were some sentences that didn't make sense grammatically or logically, and many were hard to read because of lack of interpunction. There were also some inconsistencies.
That said, the story was actually interesting and I liked the aesthetics, so I enjoyed the game. If you're wondering which character you should play first, I feel like Luna-Terra's storyline has messages that explain the lore in most straightforward way.

TLDR: God I wish girls were real

I'm still gay

Such a heartfelt and cute game with interesting themes and a fascinating premise. The way the story pushes you to imagine beyond imagination is marvellous!
Some of the panels within reminded me of a discontinued webcomic known as METAFURQUEST. The loose, blocky style, weaved in through careful placement and timing added so much to the game.

An absolutely brilliant visual novel that truly uses the medium to its strengths.
Also it's really cool to see women kiss.

First visual novel i've ever experienced, i'm glad I gave it a shot, the different perspectives along with the relationships both the main caste and some of the support characters have with eachother are intriguing. The stubbornness and love the pilots have for eachother and their dreams is wonderful.

Good Game.

This game broke me apart and put me back together and I'm different now. Because that's life. And maybe most of them don't care if we die, and maybe some of them want us dead, but we have to live anyway. We have to love anyway. We have to love each other, and ourselves, and we have to change and be changed, and more than anything we have to have each other.
Heaven Will Be Mine is a game about being trans, and lesbian, and fighting and making out, and piloting giant robots because it's awesome. And it's one of the most beautiful pieces of art I've ever experienced.

GAY WOMEN IN MECHS AND THEY'RE KISSING !!!
but like, in an existential way

Very beautiful game.

Thats all i can say. I got the CG ending when i played, and it was perfect.

Just play this, wont regret it.

holy fuck this is so good

sapphic game with complex stories featuring female protagonists with deep backstory...................... and it's all set in space.......... like yes!! sapphic astronauts!! this is what voltron failed to deliver.........

a deeply weird, abstract, and horny meditation on carving out an identity for yourself and the relationship of queer subcultures to broader society. has its places that don't quite seem to connect (or which maybe i just didn't understand?), but overall I loved it. aevee bee's writing is beautifully striking-- my screenshots folder is filled with excerpts that were particularly fascinating or hit me personally hard, and the CG ending in particular had me running off to hide in the bathroom and cry for fifteen minutes.

gorgeous atmospheric soundtrack and general ambiance, we know the devil was great at that already and this one utilizes its increase in complexity and production time well

start with saturn, i think i'd've started making sense of what was going on quicker if I had

The most infuriating part of Heaven Will Be Mine is that it feels like a piece of a better game. Like there is some otherworld where someone tricked the AAA gaming industry into funneling money into the queer OELVN scene and it exploded into a genuine rival to the Japanese visual novel industry. The Comiket 08 HWBM, the Nitroplus HWBM, that HWBM is a fucking titan that changes the course of human history, that HWBM winds up getting preserved in the MOMA.

As is, the Heaven Will Be Mine that we get instead is closer to making a case for this hypothetical Ultra-HWBM by using the forms and aesthetics and ideas of "high-brow" otaku fiction to tell a story that is decidedly contemporary, relevant, and above all else queer both in themes and text.

Which is all to say, Heaven Will Be Mine feels like a work made for me, one that blends abstract psychedelic metaphysical sci-fi with tight layered casts deeply stylized writing and just straight up queer theory. It's just cool, and immediate, and catchy, and if this shit had a budget of ten billion dollars to get an 80 hour story extension full voice acting and animated cutscenes it would outsell the Bible.

I don't where to start. I had this game on my wishlist forever, and just now decided to purchase it. I'll be honest; I love girls, I love visual novels, and I love anything that involves psychological horror, philosophy, or science fiction. I did not expect this game to be set in the 80's because, of course, it's a game about lesbians in space. Who wouldn't assume it's in the future?

I wishlisted the game because it looked interesting, even past the gayness that initially got me hooked. Obviously, for my first run, I played as Saturn and got the Celestial Mechanics ending. But wow, I was not expecting just how deep it and mindful it would be on the topic of humanity and space travel. At the end, while I know it's only one of three endings, I was surprisingly touched. To be honest, I didn't fully grasp the story completely. A lot of science stuff that's too complex for me, or maybe the wording is just hard for me to understand. But I got the main points, and it was really moving.

I don't know exactly what happened at the end of the CM ending. Spoilers: From the looks of it, they turned into celestial bodies (like constellations) considering the ending text. I thought they were fusing with their Ship-Self, which means they'd become like a robotic humanoid in space? Regardless, it was actually a pretty site seeing them as what I believe to be constellations. I couldn't tell exactly what poses they were in though.

I thought this game was going to be a basic dating sim with erotic subtext (and there was some of that), but the game made a really good discussion on humanity as a whole and love at that. Of course I plan to play the other two girls and get the other endings, but so far, I really like the CM ending. Not just because it's the only one I've gotten, but because the conclusion is beautiful and really thought-provoking. And I love the character designs and the title as well. The developers did an amazing job, and I recommend this to anyone who likes sci-fi, mechs, lesbians, controvesial/philosophical themes, love in general, visual novels, and an appreciation for space. Also great music!

More of interactive fiction than a traditional visual novel... but I loved the writing here. Considering you're meant to just read e-mails and chats in-between fights (both literal and verbal) to get background info, I could see that a lot of thought was put into the lore as well as the philosophical/ideological side of things. Loved it there, sometimes it was strange, sometimes poetic, sometimes made me sad, sometimes made me hopeful... For such a short game, it sure made me think. I also have to mention that the progression of the plot made me honestly admit that I was wrong in some of my convictions while playing. Also, I loved the soundtrack, it has some bangers... and I do think that Pluto's ship design is 11/10, the visuals of that mech will haunt me for a long time.

the fact that a visual novel could become one of my favourite games in under 5 hours is a testament to how good this game is


oh also girls

i love yuri

Lesbians in space mechs communicate aggressively, tenderly, flirtatiously, to determine the future of queerness in the face of the overwhelming gravity of cisheteronormativity

I've replayed this game many many times and it still hits so hard. The characters, the soundtrack, the worldbuilding is amazing. It is very reading focused, and you might think of it as more of a visual novel with a soundtrack rather than something with more game elements! Obviously if you've played their other game We Know the Devil you'll be familiar with the format and some of the overarching LGBT themes; but this game is much more expansive in art direction, story, and scope! I can't recommend it enough it highkey changed my brain chemistry

This game is just so interesting and good that it drives me mad thank you devs <3

This game actually and unironically changed my life and the way I think. Play it. it's a must-play.

this game Gets Me

i like this a lot

I definitely liked this one more than WKTD, the studio's previous game, and there's a lot of similar ground covered. I liked how much more abstract this game was about its themes, although the world and ideas were definitely more interesting than the characters for me. I think it's something about how the dialogue is written that doesn't quite work. Then again, maybe I'm just picky.

It's a bit of a shame this game has been so... overshadowed, but I can't deny I was also hoping to maybe get some insight into Halimede.

I did not.

i am a yuri powered machine

made me feel emotions

obviously we love space pilot mech lesbians but oh my DAYS the writing is amazing i love people and gravity and culture and space and time and gravity and

heaven will be mine

what does gravity sing of, I wonder?
people moving towards and apart
nebulae and faces smashing together
when song is singing and singing is song
do the stars shine brighter tonight?

why does the intimacy of violence
attach attackers like lovers?
fighting is fucking, only with three bodies
problems - space, gravity, and timing
solutions - only what we can simulate
with our messy imperfection bodies

crescendo after crescendo the star
rises and rises like a parable
what is a story after all
if not a reflection of love
for the universe

it's about being gay and making out with the two worst people you know that are also your girlfriends but you're in giant mechs cuz mechs are awesome and cool and you can have incredibly intense homoerotic fights and i think that's the highest praise i can possibly give this game

it reminded me how much i love other people and for that i think it's pretty special

also it's very purple prose-y and chock full of subtext. it's awesome and i think you should play it if you're gay and transgender and love mecha and subtext and women and hate the government

a story fundamentally about yuri