Where the Heart Is

Name: Where the Heart Is
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.0 (20 reviews)
Author: CheekyGimp

by CheekyGimp

Uncensored Windows Linux Mac

VersionEP25

EngineRen'Py

Released2025-12-13

Updated2026-04-09

LanguageEnglish

Your mother died several years ago and your father has recently died (Happy start, right ?). You are returning to your childhood home to visit your deceased mother's best friend Monica and Monica's two daughter's whom you grew up. You haven't seen them in several years (for reasons explained in the game). In addition to these three ladies, there will be plenty of other characters in play (friends, foes, neighbors, stalkers and the "Coffee-Shop Girl"). Now go ring the doorbell. Monica and the rest of the ladies are waiting.......

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Ep. 25 The episode is currently 58,000 lines long, which is over 2.5 times bigger than episode 24. And 36 times bigger than episode 1. So, yeah… I should have spread the game out over 35 episodes, not 25, but no point looking back at this stage. We also have 5400 items of art (renders & animations) in this episode alone, so this has been a massive undertaking. Once episode 25 has been released, I'll be in touch with all of you next week to discuss next steps and get inputs on what you want to see next (DLC / epilogues, Season 2, New games) as I have lots of plans, but want to make sure it aligns with what you folks want. Season 1 - Rev 1 Folks, I've been getting this question a lot, so rather than write a load of different individual responses, I just thought I'd post it. The question is: How many chapters / episodes are there in Season 1. The answer is: There are 6 chapters in Season 1. This includes the upgraded version of the first 10 episodes of the original game, plus a lot of extended scenes and brand new scenes. Overall, it has twice the content (Script / options / dialog) compared to the original 10 episodes and more than 3x times the artwork. So please don't assume 6 chapters = only 6 episodes of the original. This is not the case. I went with chapters versus episodes to distinguish between the re-do (chapters) and the original (episodes) and I tried to keep the new chapters tied into bundles that cover whole days (or in some cases 2 or 3 whole days) whereas the original episodes were a bit messier with (sometimes) a single day being spread across more than one episode. Season 1 v2024-09-06 BETA N/A Season 1 v2024-07-10 BETA N/A Season 1 v6.1.2024 BETA This demo will add days 4 and 5 (second half of day 5 has some issues at the moment, hence the last minute scramble. The re-do has more pathing (to allow you to choose no interest/ no romance with more women early on if they don't float your boat). This is great for those that felt some romances were "forced on you" in the original, but bad for me, as it significantly increases the number of paths I have to write and keep track of! In addition to the upgrade of the original scenes, Day 4 has a lot of new scenes that weren't part of the original, including a full date with Debbie, full date with Lily, a short scene with Jenna, and another short scene with Katie/Jenna. Ep.24 N/A Ep.23 N/A Ep.22 N/A Ep.21 N/A Ep.20 N/A Ep.19 There has been some minor changes (stats scores, some dialog change and a new scene at the very end with some plot update). Ep 19 Patch only Ep19 (Beta) Patch Only N/A Ep18 N/A Ep17 You can now name your saves to make it easier to keep track of your different playthru's. If you don';t want the save name prompt, you can turn this off in the "Preferences" section. Gallery: We've added a gallery section wher you can click on a particular lady and join the action in whatever scene you want (with max stats for the lady). This will allow you to sample any scenes that you might have missed out on due to choices or attribute check fails. Change MC Name: You can change the MC's name at any point in the game. Dialog / Text box preferences: This has been here awhile but we never formally announced it. In "preferences", you can change the following: Dialog - Changes (or removes) the color of the shading box behind the dialog text. Choice - Changes (or removes) the color of the shading box behind the menu choice options. Chars - Toggle if you want to see the mini photo / image of the speaking character. If you turn off text background completely (works best for me too), there might be some parts of the game where it's easier to read if you turn on a background temporarily. Ep.16 Beta BETA version. Doesn't include "the final scene and some polish". Ep.15 BETA BETA VERSION expect typos, errors and/or incomplete scenes Ep.14 N/A Ep.13 This great story continues. Ep. 11 Made some changes to my initial plans for this episode. Increased the focus on the three primary characters (as I felt after 11 episodes,things were starting to lose pace a bit). Focus on the three primaries obviously impacts the air time for the supporting cast, but expect that to balance in the next episode. (Although Angel & Zarah do make appearances) Bella / Jolina / Lily / Debbie do not appear, but they WILL be in episode 12 (where Elaine also makes her entrance) Ep. 10 Not known. Ep. 6X Episode 6X (extended version of Episode 6) has now been released. It doubles the number of images/renders in Episode 6 and increases the overall script length by approximately 66% (3 new scenes). v0.04 This episode completes Day 1. Your previous saves from the last release should work. (I think) v0.02 New file doesn't progress the story much beyond the last update, but I have made a lot of changes. Most of the internal monologue has been removed. Some option changes, some render updates and one added item to the Monica character's backstory....

MickNRorty 2026-03-23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I really loved this game! It has loads of content, plenty of LI, you only have to choose at the end which one to marry but you won't lose the rest (or if you use a mod, you marry them all!). The MC has the magic dick ofc where it's enormous and every girl instantly falls in love with it/him. The story is kinda generic, there's an inheritance with weird conditions, there's a plot twist, but all in all, there's plenty of (sex) content to see. The LIs are beautiful in a "girl next door" way and not "everyone is ultimate babe". My only "disappointments" lie with the fact that there aren't many fetishes to explore (even the "pregnancy" condition only appears at the very end without any sex scenes) and there's no music.

ZXIIDead 2026-03-23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Yeah, after some years I finally finished the game. I remember the first time I downloaded it, the latest episode released was 10. We’ve come a loooong way, and I have one thing to say: I love this game. Even though it has so many flaws… damn, the beginning of this game is SO SLOW. Some interactions are really boring, and I think that’s because of how much time you spend with each character. It feels like every interaction is an episode itself, since you’ll spend 2–3 hours with one character, but then only see them again after 8–10 hours of gameplay. You can really feel the scene planning. Even interactions that are supposed to be quick end up being long and boring, and the transitions don’t feel organic or natural. It just feels like you’re jumping from one scene to another. You can feel this even more in the later episodes (around episode 20), when things start to unfold. You’re supposed to talk to a character to understand what’s going on… but you don’t. Instead, you just go on a date or do something else, and then you have to wait 10+ hours to see that character again and find out what’s happening. And you being the only man in the whole story, having no friends, and only interacting with the girls for the first 12+ episodes is just… AAAAAHHHHH. And I hate that Monica becomes less interesting with each chapter. At the beginning, there was no way I’d choose any other character over her, but by the end, there wasn’t much left to see. With that said… I love the characters and the moments you spend with them, and I really like that your choices actually matter and have consequences. Too bad the ending was so rushed, and now we’ll have to wait A LOT to see a sequel.

Bromazepam 2026-03-18 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Amazing game, superb writing and story 10/10, and the humor is S tier! Easily a top 5 all time VN for me. I can't believe I only discovered this gem a few days ago. Played without any mods, cheats or walkthrough and it was such a joy.

whatmi 2026-03-16 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

there is this ugly girl that look at you with NPC death stare in every scene some of the events are too much on the nose, you jump from 1 woman to another in matter of seconds, only non-sexual thing i had was maybe getting a coffee with a nerdy girl, but that probably because of the choices i made Game is pretty good in this weird harem-flirty way, but lack ability in making meaningful connection with 1 character or alternate the adventure i think game would be better if player could chose where to go with girl or what is happening better as it is girls and milfs just sit around you and you just need to adapt to situation it started getting very artificial rather quick, overall "great" for a porn game

TheFallenRuler 2026-03-15 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

While it's far from perfect, it was highly entertaining and the story actually had me hooked. Jolina + Jenna = best gorls. Katie, Angel and Wanda could really use some updated models tbh. Wish Theresa had more scenes, too! The ending was near perfect, aside from that unnecessary last moment "surprise". Also, whoever thinks this *isn't* a harem game needs to acknowledge that they just have skill issues.

Fox sin of greed 2026-01-28 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I'm in love with Monica. I think I got the best ending—at least for me—with the MILFs. I fucking loved this game. One of the greatest games I have ever played, and I’ve played a lot. I hope to get more games like this. A true treasure.

Prawnstar69 2026-01-09 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

⭐ Fun to Play It would be a 5 star game if it included the walkthrough mod ⭐ Cool Story Takes a long time to get build your harem, hence the walkthrough is essential so you don't get locked out of certain routes near the end. ⭐ Looks Awesome Top tier for its time, but could do with a remastering ⭐ Finished Game Yup ⭐ Bonus Wow It was too much effort for more than one playthrough, so I never did go back to get other endings.

ken878 2025-12-24 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Great game. Love the character design. Lots of different choice for every characters. Been following it since the beginning and glad to see it get completed. Wether there a sequel or dlc I can't wait to try them.

GFLfooget 2025-12-23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This game's renders is aging like your grandmother, the fact that it took 7 years for an ending is insane. Not to mention the rework is decent but nothing amazing like a complete overhaul. It literally still uses all the same assets. Yet that is still taking abysmally long. This game should've ended in 2014 at best. There's just no excuse for such renders. Secondly 3/4 in this dev suddenly decided that consequences are a thing and turned a mindless harem game into some pseudo life choices nonsense.

Ravenquartz 2025-12-19 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

[SPOILER ALERT] Where should I begin? Alright, I’ve bookmarked Where The Heart Is for almost two years. I decided to download it a few days ago because it’s a complete VN now. I played it for hours, I wasted my time for this. I’m currently at Episode 20 right now, but I feel compelled to make a review about this VN because of some huge issues that I’ve found. But first, I’m going to speak about the good. There’s a lot of choices and 98% of them do matter. Renders are okay, they look good for a game that came out in 2018. The dev did some improvements to later episodes at least. Most importantly, the dev himself managed to finish his game. Now here comes the bad (I think I’m gonna drown myself writing this part). First, why did the developer hide MC’s face for most part of the game? He’s not that bad looking, in fact he’s actually quite handsome. I know his model, it’s the same male model from Peasant’s Quest. It still baffles me why this is a thing, it makes the kissing scenes feel ridiculous to look at. Second, it’s pretty much obvious that the superstar of this game is Katie. She has the most love points and she shows up on screen more often than other love interests. Then what’s the problem? The problem is that she looks very mid at best and the worst thing is, she has sailor’s mouth all the time. It’s infuriating at this point. Everywhere you go, she always shows up in front of you. She knocks at your door most of the time to wake you up, she always ask you to come with her doing bullshit things with her friends (I have no problem with her friends), she always calling you out of nowhere, yadda yadda. I don’t mind if she was pretty, but unfortunately she isn’t. She’s straight up annoying at this point, I feel like I want to lock her up in the basement until the whole inheritance bullshit is over. Last but not least, the way the developer writing Jolina’s story is just straight up horrible and full of injustice. She’s my first ever crush in this game after the dev threw me a bunch of mid women along the way. At first, I flirted with her and she said a big nope and didn’t want to see me for the next few episodes. After that, I managed to apologize to her and we started over as a couple which is nice. We had a date and she invited me to her apartment but apparently Jenna disrupted the moment because she was gullible to hang out with a creep. After a few episodes, we met up again by doing a date and pranking the creep’s mother and we had sex in her apartment. Is that it? No, apparently our moment is forever ruined by the same fucking Jenna because she couldn’t stop snooping into her laptop for nothing. In the end, she won’t trust me fully and she can’t even stop bringing up the hacking incident everytime we talk. Why, why, why, WHY!?!??!?!??!? Why did you have to write her story like that?? I swear to god, Monica’s daughters are all annoying in their own way even though their mom is a sweetheart. I'm genuinely pissed off right now , I don’t even think I have any enjoyment left to continue this game. Why did I even bother playing it for hours? Instant one out of five stars, by the way.

junk54 2025-12-18 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Good Harem story. *Spoiler, two paths that involve either the milf path or younger path with your girls. Little of a slow build up but then the sex scenes are solid and mostly animated. Character designs improved over time. Solid game and I enjoyed it.

XALexXMx 2025-12-17 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This game has less focus on main story and more on useless choices like ,flirt ,compliment ,joke etc .Again and again these useless choices pop up .This game just wasted more time in useless talks with female characters .While the woman characters are goodlooking that alone doesn't qualify this game to be at top .Very few vaginal sex scenes with all woman characters .Lack of variety of positions during vaginal sex or anal .Camera angels could have been way better if tried .Creampie scenes not shown in many scenarios .In many scenes after choosing come in pussy ,pussy with cum is not shown at all .This game needs better story with better focus on actual relationship building through story not joke,compliment ,flirt choices again and again .Overall this game had potential at first but it disappointed me very well .

DiggerArm 2025-12-15 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This game is a great one, with a fine story, great variety of characters (sexy, mature, timid, lewd, adventurous, corruptible, etc) giving a few choices depending on the player's preferences. Sex scenes are well done, and intrigues are simple to follow. I have played this game for several years now, and decided to restart from the beginning since it is now completed. Thanks to the dev.

cyphre 2025-12-14 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Alright i will be more harsh than most people, judging by the rating, but this is another case of me not understanding how this got even remotely this high of a score. I generally try to judge games for what it is, so standards vary from project to project, so i judge this as a full on VN that takes tens of hours of reading to finish (or get anywhere, for that matter). And for me this was a truly miserable experience that just wasted my time without giving a lot. First issue, the story. Lack thereof, to be precise. The central narrative would-be thread is deciding on whether you want to get father's fortune or pick your childhood mother and sister figures plus figuring out who sent the email to arrange this to begin with. Except the entire issue floats up from the abyss for maybe 10 minutes in this entire VN, EVERY other word is dedicated to rizzing up the female cast. Here is a little litmus test for any VN, put on "skip unread" in options and skip for around 30 minutes. If you still understand what's going on and relashionships didn't change and you are essentially in the same place, then your VN got f*ck all going on. Out of 25 episodes here you can safely hold skip for 20 of them and you will miss absolutely nothing and will arrive at the same point. There is so much nothing going on that it makes all relashionships meaningless, aimless and fake since no one have any goals, conflicts or anything they work towards and only exist to be pieces of meat in various porn scenarios. Entirety of Wanda just left me flabbergasted in particular. Second issue, even more glaring than first, is THOUSANDS of pointless choices. So how it works is, as usual you get love and lust points for every correct choice, the usual. Except every couple sentenses you are interrupted to pick "joke/flirty; flirt; stare at ass/boobs; that was sexy/hot". Okay so you might think this is a sprawling big VN with choices, variations, different scenarios and whatnot, which is technically true and you can choose not to romance someone, but that is ALL you can affect. 99% of those choices lead only to point increases which just unlock some scenes essentially. Which essentially instead of you picking what you want creates a "you picked correctly/incorrectly" state, meaning there is essentially an optimal path to get everyone... except you cannot since despite playing as a harem game, looking as a harem game and functioning as a harem game it is not one. And the choices are complete ass. Repetitive, mind numbing, nonsensical and often going against common sense or characterization of the characters. Almost every time picking Joke, Compliment and Flirt option will be an increase, you will press those THOUSANDS of times, but generally game considers shamelessly ogling and treating everyone like meat and borderline harassing people as the most positive relashionship dynamic. Linked to this point, the protagonist is a braindead degenerate asshole at best and empty as a rock at worst, and it's extremely unpleasant to play as him, and choices far from always align with his foul nature and perception. It would be fine if he was portrayed as such and his relashionships were indeed based on pure lust and domination, but the game portrays him as a nice guy overall, at least tries to, which leads to even further disconnect. Third issue, every girl is just a caricature and it's enough to say "you are sexy" or "you are hot" for ANYONE to drop their panties. There is no different approaches, there is no figuring out their personalities and circumstances, there are no personal stories, goals or conflicts, you just press "Joke, Compliment, Flirt" like a maniac until all of this blurs together into one miserable insufferable whirlwind of boring pointless conversations with nobodies. Sometimes you have to also guess whether combination of "Slightly crude/flirting, Crude/compliment or Joke/Flity" is the correct choice. Not figure out, just guess. Which is a shame considering writer can actually write, yet instead chose to write hundreds of thousands of lines of... nothing. Visuals are very dated, scenes get better only towards the end. Overall what i got is a decently promising beginning that quickly became a pointless plotless empty puzzle without a goal, meaning or direction and stayed this way for tens of hours without ever finding footing. It wasted my time, drained all my emotions and left me bored to death.

Gamb24 2025-12-14 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

It took a long time. Was it worth the wait? No. But that doesn't change that this game is a lot of fun, offers a nice story outside of the sex that keeps one guessing and most of all, is finished in a satisfying way.

MyLifeBeLike67 2025-12-14 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

3/5 - It's.. okay. This game is over 7 years old, and it finally has come to an end. I will say, I am glad it at least reached a conclusion. Unlike some games that will never have an ending. BUT!.. and there is a but.. a lot of butts. The ending feels rushed, there is no satisfying conclusion. Just a bunch of "dates", a meeting with the lawyers and a wedding. It doesn't really add much to the story, more than anything it's a quick selection based wrap up. It feels like this, "You want this girl? No, okay how about this one? Yes? Okay and what about this one?". And I want to be transparent about the graphics. I see people praising the graphics. Can we be real here... it's not that good. It is fine, but not good. Idk why people are saying it's great. I liked the story, as of right now it's above average story wise. But it feels like it had an idea of where it wanted to go with the story. Then fell off in motivation or wanted money, so it got dragged out. And then the story just doesn't go much further than the half way mark (with filler to pad the story). Theresa, carnival girl, Zarah, Angel, Comic con lady, Comic con girl, Random model lady at party, all of these don't progress the story. It's quantity over quality. I really did want to give it a higher mark though, Because I've followed this game for so long. But I just can't.

irolirol 2025-12-13 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Monica, the ultimate mom character, absolutely captivates with her irresistible sexiness and seductive allure—I'm completely hooked! Every glance and movement drips with temptation, making her the standout star of this visual novel. Her wardrobe choices are fire: skimpy tops, tight dresses, and lingerie that accentuate her stunning curves perfectly, fueling endless fantasies. The gameplay and story build tension beautifully around her, but here's the one flaw—no scenes of passionate lovemaking while fully clothed. That missed opportunity for clothed teasing keeps it from perfection. Still, Monica's presence makes it a steamy, addictive must-play!

dwood 2025-12-13 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I know my 3 star rating says average, but to my way of thinking, 3 on a 5 scale is slightly above average, which is what I think this novel merits. I thought the beginning was fairly slow and uninteresting, but then I think it picked up momentum in the middle chapters and became one of the novels I most enjoyed. Then, the author decided to abruptly call timeout from writing the last chapter, so he could rework the entire novel and release for Steam, to get that good Steam money flowing in. Years later, he finally released a totally underwhelming ending. Suffering from burnout, boredom, and I suppose the burden of that sweet Steam cash, we get the usual tacked on, finished just to call it finished, ending. Several characters and story lines are completely and unceremoniously dropped, boiling down to unsatisfactory endings with the characters deemed important enough. It feels rushed, but considering how agonizingly long it took to see the light of day, it was by no means rushed. Still, despite my criticisms, this novel is better than most. Even the lousy ending fares better than most of the lousy, tacked on endings that we normally get.

Zybator 2025-12-04 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Great update - game feels new and way better I've played the old version up untill EP14 or something and actually supported on patreon aswell, since I liked the story. The renders on the other hand haven't been the best but got better over time. The game just didn't stand out too much to me so I let it drop. Now after quite some time I came back and saw a new version. OH BOY. Some renders might still not be top notch, but the whole story is way more immersive and I love everything about it. Can't wait for the next update. Big ups!

Mavriab 2025-11-03 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Remaster is great. Models looked aged as fck. Just outdated and uncanny, half the Lis in here look like they crawled out from a 2002 sega game. Story and sex scenes are nice, writing is good too it doesn't jam your face with tons of exposition and quips. Overall a more than decent VN but just wait for the full remaster because holy shit the original is ass.