Extort My Heart Demo
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
After a strange error message appears on your desktop you end up in a chatroom created by a woman who goes by 'Nova.' Due to your lack of funds and her own boredom you're now locked into a deal where you have to keep her entertained in order to keep your secrets from getting revealed!
- One goth love interest
- Selectable name and icon for the MC
- Pronoun selection! He/Him, She/Her, They/Them, or put in your own custom pronouns!
- A gallery with one CG (that has two variants)
- Three days of chats/video calls with Nova
- A personality quiz and system where your mc can be either Flirty, Hot Headed, or Cowardly- which changes a bunch of dialogue and menu choices
- At least four more days of chats/video calls with Nova
- Extensions to the days already written- expanding and improving upon them, including more variation based on player personality
- Three main endings resulting from affection score with Nova based on player choices
- More outfits for Nova! One for each new day
- General UI improvements, clickable CGs in game (not just in the gallery), a nicer gallery page
- More CGs
- Voice Acting!
- Music: Patricia Taxxon
- Fox Emotes: Mewki(I edited the colors + drew some new ones, so don't worry- they're regular cute foxes not Nova's monstrosities lol)
- Phone Messenger: Nighten
- Character Select Screen: Lime
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Development log
- New Demo Update 4-13-202512 days ago
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Aw I'm so glad y'all had fun!! Watching you play was a great time! Really annoyed with myself for not finishing the next update over the previous weekend like I planned lol. Really, thanks! I'd like to post about this on BlueSky if that's okay? If so lemme know and lemme know where ya want me to link to! Thanks again!
Feel free to post it about it anywhere! Thanks for the fun game!
okay the fact that my name is nova i'm a scorpio and we have a similar humor and aesthetic was so funny..... like talking to myself djsdj that aside!! this was really entertaining!! i honestly found it cute and she was quite funny, i really like the dynamic between them! also really laughed at the possitive affirmations, looking forward to the rest!!
Lmao! Glad you enjoyed flirting with your doppelgänger 😂 lol jokes aside I’m glad you had fun! Thanks so much for letting me know!
This was lovely!! Amazing!! Throughly enjoyed every second of thiiiissssss <3
So,, onto the actual thoughts
I was really impressed by the amount of custom shenanigans in this. It's obviously still a renpy game but you truly mangled that engine into your own vision. The clickable desktop icons, the chat log, emotes, and general ui/ux feels were unique, and fit the game well.
The general visual style was also lovely. Your art is adorable, and from a production standpoint you're also really efficient with the limited scope and assets to still make this feel fleshed out!
Lastly, your writing. HOLY SHIT dfhgjdfghb I love nova to bits- her teasing and general attitude are so fun and hit all the buttons for me. I was so sad when the demo ended because I want more of this!! so I'm really looking forward to future updates. The games you play with Nova felt unique and meaningful in their variations too, which helped Extort My Heart feel like it's a pliable and squishy thing that actually responds to your input (next to name and pronoun selections). (Like, there's many "choices matter" vns where you still very obviously see the pearlstringing. That didn't happen here!)
A small criticism I have is that the actual extortion never felt that... present? We get more days with Nova, but the actual forking over of money is never really given presence. Which makes this feel much more lighthearted (maybe intentional, maybe not?)
Overall, thank you for making this :3 Would get extorted by a goth girl that's mean to me again 10/10
Hiya! So glad you liked it! Made my day to read this.
I definitely agree on the extortion aspect not feeling as pressing as it should. It's meant to be a light hearted game, but that's still an element I want to get more into. Unfortunately due to time constraints I didn't have time to edit or refine anything so it's all essentially first draft still. In a future update the player will actually be able to choose their general personality at the start of the game which will affect how they feel about the extortion- scared, angry, etc, and it'll affect how they react throughout the game (wont lock you out of any endings though, don't worry! You can still date the goth girl, even if she scares you~). What I had already written for that already wasn't enough for the demo though, so I thought it best to leave it out. It's likely going to be in the first update though! The days already in the demo are going to be expanded upon as I update as well it so expect more of that!
Anyways I'm glad you had fun, and I hope you enjoy the future updates that come out! <3