Gregory Bellatoni arrives at a mansion party, intent on meeting his love, Eliza.

​Before he can reach her, Gregory finds himself thwarted and trapped inside a mirror world that exists within the mansion. Inside, characters from works of art among the mansion's collections come to life.

​Gregory must overcome obstacles, tame beasts, and make peace with his inner desires to escape this world and reach Eliza.
Follow the knight Gregory Bellatoni as he is thrust into a wondrous mirror world reflecting his own, where the essence of fiction, art, and music springs fourth and take on new lives of their own. Meet and befriend famous characters across all times and mediums, as well as the reflections of the artists who made them, as you explore a chaotic world fueled by pure imagination and emotion. Explore, discover, and battle your way through this chaotic world as you search for a way out in hopes of reaching the fair maiden Eliza who awaits you back on the other side. But be warned, not every story before you has had a happy ending.
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The cast.

Gameplay

Recital of the Heart is a metroidvania/RPG with a focus on exploration, puzzles and challenges, and experimentation with build for action combat.
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  • Exploring a World of Living Art - Explore a vast and varied world abound with secrets around every corner waiting to be discovered. Meet a sprawling cast of characters, some recognizable and some new, as you come face to face with works of art and their artists from across history, mediums, and walks of life.  

  • Overcome Puzzles and Challenges in Kind - Use every tool at your disposal to solve environmental traps, mind bending puzzles, and a variety of challenges set for you to master every power you gain along the long road ahead of you.
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  • Create your own Symphony - As a plethora of foes stand in your way, equip Gregory with whatever tools fit your playstyle. Mix and match dozens of unique Brushes, Instruments, and Tempo’s to bestow powerful melee, ranged, and mobility abilities upon Gregory. Imbue these abilities with additional powers and traits to augment them just to your liking, until you have created a work of art all your own.

Inspiration

‘Recital of the Heart’ started as a dream, as many works do. This time literally though. After an actual dream from one of the developers left them with flashes of this game in their minds for years, production of ‘Recital of the Heart’ finally began. Inspired by many things, RotH mirrors closely to the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, but grows to encompass so much more. It’s a story about stories, an act of creation about creating. It’s a tale for the audience and the artists alike. It pulls from greek tragedies, old poems, classic pieces of music, renowned literary works, and the sketchings and paintings of the greatest to ever do it, to create cohesion in the chaos of art. Beyond the greater whole though, at it’s core it tells one of the oldest stories there are. Of a man searching for a woman. Of a knight coming to save a princess, and what loving someone might truly mean. But perhaps things are never quite that simple, when we look further within. After all, what a story is truly about…

    …is simply in the way you tell it.
"And you realized, didn't you? That when it mattered, there wasn't a moment of hesitation. You marched right through Hell before you realized you were there."
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Fact Sheet

  • Developer: Honeypot Games LLC
  • Release Date: TBA
  • Platform: PC
  • Unit Price: $14.99 USD
  • Availability: Digital Download
  • Play Time: ~10 hours
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Social: Twitter
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