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As Grian on a mysterious island, explore, meet its inhabitants and make choices that branch into different story routes.
Released 15 Oct 2026
Explore a Mysterious Island
Shape Grian’s Alliances
Uncover Island Secrets
From making new friends — or enemies — to exploring this island for secrets, how will your story end? Play as Grian in this visual-novel RPG and encounter new, shocking twists that you wouldn’t expect!
Developed by Kazehita · Published by Kazehita
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Heartfall follows Grian after he wakes on a mysterious island. As he encounters its inhabitants, he can form friendships and alliances—or make enemies—while uncovering island secrets.
Move around the island, explore locations and talk with more than a dozen characters. Choices shape relationships and can lead each story in different directions, with routes ranging from detective stories to other unexpected scenarios.
The game combines dialogue and illustrated scenes with overworld exploration. Its 12 routes tell distinct stories, and multiple endings give players reasons to revisit them and discover alternate outcomes.
Reviewers often praise the varied illustrated artwork, soundtrack and writing, along with the distinct routes and their emotional twists. Many enjoy replaying stories to uncover alternate endings and references to the series that inspired the game; some also say it works without prior familiarity.
Heartfall - a Tale in Three Lives follows Grian as he wakes up on a mysterious island. Explore, encounter 12+ characters, partake in fatal-but-temporary shenanigans, and reveal one of the many story routes! Every route diverges wildly — you may find yourself becoming a detective, cheating on your first alliance, or discovering secrets that were best left forgotten!
Within the game’s 400k+ words of dialogue, 450+ cut in artworks, and 50+ original music tracks you'll find our creative hearts beating. Seventy collaborators brought their unique styles and passion to this project in order to realize their visions for ‘what if’ scenarios branching off of the YouTube series 3rd Life. This project was a labor of love! Passion breathed this Life Series fangame into being! No knowledge of 3rd Life is required to play.
Heartfall is a collaborative fangame based on 3rd Life, made with love and dedication! After one year of preparation and programming, the stories, artwork, and music were created by seventy contributors in just seven months.
The game is a visual novel RPG with diverging story paths written, illustrated, and designed by separate creative teams! Every story path is completely different!
Heartfall - a Tale in Three Lives is an independent and not-for-profit fan project. The game is unaffiliated with Grian and the 3rd Life SMP cast.
All content contained within are our own interpretations and do not represent the opinions, thoughts, or vision of the 3rd Life SMP cast.
Content Advisory
Heartfall is intended for teen and up audiences. Sudden Noises, Flashing, Bright Colors, and Swearing are toggleable in settings. Additional content warnings apply and will contain spoilers. These are accessible from the info menu when playing or on our website.
General Content Warnings: Explosions, Fantasy Violence, Blood, Animal Death, Character Death, Trauma, Injury, Suicide.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 36 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
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