Gemheart Valley

A cozy life where the harvest is gemstones

You inherit your great-aunt Kiku's lapidary workshop in a quiet mountain valley whose crystals stopped growing thirty years ago. Clear the Mineral Garden, scatter crystal dust and let the rain, the moon, heat and pressure decide what forms. Every stone that comes out of the earth is one of a kind, with its own name, serial number and certificate.

Tap. Tap... crack.

Carry your geodes to the anvil, find the seam and strike. Guess the colour of the heart before it opens, polish your finds in ASMR mode, and keep your eyes open: some rare gems hold a tiny world inside, like a pine forest under snow or a whale swimming through a nebula.

A valley full of friends

• Seven villagers to get to know, with heart events all the way to ten hearts, birthdays, gifts and romance. Their faces act out every line.
  
• Tsubame, the travelling lapidary, steps off the morning bus every season to challenge you: her best stone against yours. Grandma Suzu judges. Loser buys the tea.
  
• Village life: make kohakutō crystal candy at Haru's café, enter the Weekly Cut Contest, design stained-glass windows that paint your floor with light, and fill the museum, where every empty pedestal holds a "?" waiting for its stone.

Wonders, big and small

• Ride Kiku's paper lantern balloon over the valley at golden hour and make a wish.
  
• Once a season, on Geode Night, the geodes under the mountain wake up... and one of them sings.
  
• A cozy little quake shakes loose petals and pebbles, and opens a brand-new cave.
  
• Lay a fossil in Kiku's moonlit basin and it wakes as a tiny creature that lives in your garden.
  
• A crystal grows in a jar on your desk in real time, even while the game is closed.
  
• Every Saturday night, a train that isn't on any timetable stops at Hoshikage Station.
  
• And on full-moon nights, once the valley has woken, look up.

Features

• 130 stones in 23 families: quartz, opals, tourmalines, spinels, pearls, meteorites, fossils... Rain, storms, full moons and seasons all change what grows.
  
• A whole valley to explore: Moonveil Caves, the glowing Blooming Grotto, Sunstone Ridge and its hot spring, snowy Frostglass Peak and the Deep Vein, 25 floors across five worlds down to the Geode Cathedral (the tanuki miners never left).
  
• 24 fish in rivers, grottos, frozen lakes and underground pools. Some carry a pearl.
  
• Cats, spirits and pets: send mining cats on real-time digs, wake the tiny spirits sleeping inside legendary stones and raise the pets that hatch from geodes.
  
• Four seasons, eleven festivals and a mystery told in weekly chapters.
  
• The real sky: the moon follows the real one, and real meteor showers and eclipses reach your valley.
  
• Share the joy: the Geode of the Day (the same one for every player), friend codes, visits to friends' valleys, one-button clips, and a Streamer mode where Twitch chat votes on the colour of the next geode's heart and tomorrow's weather.
  
• Full controller support, Steam Deck controls included.

A soft storybook look, gentle music and no rush. No microtransactions: one price, the whole valley.