RotHeart
You are Aria, a burnt-out graduate who is struggling to reignite her passion for music. Trying to get back on her feet, Aria reluctantly agrees to manage a dysfunctional indie rock band of monster musicians named RotHeart. To get RotHeart ready for “Fright up the Night”, the biggest battle of the bands event of the year, Aria must navigate the group’s internal drama and help them get their groove back. To make matters worse, a specter of Aria’s past is competing in one of the rival bands.
RotHeart explores creative passion and how friends navigate life’s difficulties together in a world full of monsters.
For streamers and content creators, access the RotHeart Presskit here!
*To ensure for a smooth gameplay experience, we highly recommend downloading the windows platform version below. If you choose to still play the game in-browser, it's best if you view the game in fullscreen. Thank you!
- ~40k words
- A colorful cast of 9 characters
- 4 unique minigames, including a Guitar Hero inspired rhythm minigame
- With accessibility feature to skip
- Free time segments to explore character friendships and prepare for in-game gigs
- Partial Voice Acting
- Original Soundtrack
Charlie Lee - Project manager & 2D artist
Kieran Velez - Programmer
Gallow - GUI Artist
Hikari Ito - BG Artist
Honeybee (ljw_honey) - 2D Artist
Lisette Amago - Composer/Sound Designer
M3t4lp0w3r- Composer/Sound Designer
Molli Shuker - Writer
Noah Gartenberg - Programmer
Pauline Reinacher - 2D Artist
Rex 'Daemon' Beck - 2D Artist
Vitaliy Stepanyuk - Programmer
Yaygun - Programmer
Devon Hunt - Voice for Onyx
Jonna-Lynn Alonso - Voice for Toni and Fay
Lauren Pak - Voice for Serena
Maliki LaForce - Voice for Philo
Maria Eugenia Hernández - Singer
Sakami - Voice for Aria
Stephen Zhu - Voice for Lucero
External Assets
Bambe Font Family by Gian Studio
Nordigh Demo Font by Figuree Studio
RotHeart was developed in one month for Spooktober VN Jam 2026. It was made with old and new friends of Null Jam Games, but is not under ownership of the studio.
Thank you so much for playing, Happy Halloween!
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Love the game! Glad you’ve decided to make the minigames skippable, I’m not very good at guitar hero… XD Yosuke is my favorite despite being just a hand lol! Also the audio is kind of scratchy on my end, but reminder that I’m using the web version so it might be my connection.
i've noted down your feedback to the team so we can investigate 💪🥹 thank you so much again for taking the time to play RotHeart! ♡
a monster band w internal drama?? who's the most dysfunctional member lol ♡
you'll find out when you play, but.... it might be a certain ghostie ! 👻
a ghostie?? stoppp i'm so in 👻 come hang in our discord pleaseee https://discord.com/invite/HQ785Wmmsr