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Pine Hearts – Adventure Game Review
Pine Hearts is a Adventure/Family game from Secret Mode Limited, first launched in 23rd September 2025.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 44+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pine Hearts Stand Out
-TRY BEFORE YOU BUY-
Try the first two areas from the main game – Reflection Point and the Campsite – totalling 20-25 minutes of gameplay.
A one-time in-app purchase opens up the full Pine Hearts experience. No ads.
Adventure awaits! Join Tyke on a cosy hiking expedition to the sprawling Pine Hearts nature reserve and scale the mountain your father never managed to climb.
Splash through rockpools, explore mysterious caves, clean up campsites, investigate old castle ruins, and play on the beach as Tyke revisits the scenes of childhood holidays and recollects past adventures with his dad.
The Pine Hearts nature reserve is an enchanting world of crisscrossing paths and shortcuts, filled with surprising interactions. Make lots of new friends and complete quirky quests for locals in need, including:
· Judging a vegetable competition!
· Conducting a brass band!
· Helping a ghost!
· Rebuilding a whale-watching boat!
· Rescuing wayward bees!
· Setting (camera) traps to catch a monster!
· Digging up Viking treasure!
Lose yourself in a charming world packed with memories and make it a holiday to remember for everyone you encounter.
Key Features:
· Heartfelt story about family loss – A warm and thoughtful tale about honouring the memory of Tyke’s late father, told with tenderness and care
· Sunny Scottish setting – Explore an interconnected world inspired by our childhood holidays to the Scottish Highlands’ Cairngorms. Sun added by artistic license
· More than just a park – Sandy beaches, dusty catacombs, lush golf courses, bustling caravan parks, and more await explorers travelling to the Pine Hearts nature reserve
· Gentle puzzling and stress-free exploration – Unlock equipment and abilities at your own pace to open shortcuts and reach new areas of the Metroidvania-style map
· Whimsical characters and quests – Make new friends and do good deeds for them
· Pet cute dogs – We are @CanYouPetTheDog verified
· Pat cool crabs – If @CanYouPatTheCrab existed, we’d be verified too
· Sweet contemplative moments – Sit down on a bench to take a breather and admire the sights
· Comprehensive accessibility options – Simplified controls, colour-blocking, black-and-white, and high-contrast modes, visual FX toggles, font scaling, full input remapping, and more
Pine Hearts is the perfect game for players seeking a relaxing and intuitive adventure about exploring nature, bonding with adorable characters, and making family memories that last beyond lifetimes. It’s inspired by our own experiences and dedicated to those whose cherished memories carry forward with us on the journey.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pine Hearts is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Adjustments and improvements to Autosave functionality
General bug fixes
Download & Availability
Pine Hearts is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Truly lovely and heartwarming experience. Its very cozy and brings out the joy of exploration we enjoyed this a lot, so much that this is the first review ive ever written. The team did a wonderful job.
The best game Worth every penny Almost finished with it and we will miss it Adorable, fun and it makes u think.
We were loving this game! It was so much fun, cute, and easy to navigate. All of a sudden it crashed though, and then we could never get back into the game! We tried restarting our device, our WiFi, nothing. Wouldnt get past the loading page. We paid for the full version so we are disappointed.
We bought this game and its been great up until we got to a gat with a gear puzzle but it seems like it doesnt work and things look like its cut off from our screen or we click a gear and it disappears and it wont let us click the other. Cant move forward after this part.
What an adorable and fun little game. It had a great story behind it. A lot of quests to do. Very relaxing and addicting at the same time. Graphics are adorable and good. Wish we could play it for the first time again. We hope there will be another one.
We bought this game on a complete whim, no expectations and barely skimming the description lol. We enjoy cozy-type games and thought this would fit right in. Its definitely cozy! No time limits, no expectations, and free-reign to explore. But the story. We actually shed a few tears, it was thoughtful and beautiful. We enjoyed every second we played this game, and finished it in 2 days! The studio/team did amazing with this, its wholesome, heartfelt, and relaxing.
The game was a lot of fun. Overall the story line was super unique and enjoyable. The game itself was a lot of fun. We enjoyed walking around and trying to find all the droplets, unlocking tools, and completing tasks. This is the first time in a long time that we have enjoyed a mobile game.
Thanks for making us cry we absolutely loved playing this. Our only complaint is that we wish it was longer.
Its very stardew valley levels of wholesome. We wish it was way way way longer. Loved it.
We Love Love Love the graphics and the feel of the game. It takes us back to the moments when we were younger and camped with our dad. We were wondering if this is based on a real place? Its amazing and we hope that you continue to keep making more games like this. Also this feels like TOEM. P.S See about making it in Apple Arcade.
Fun puzzle game with tons of charm. Our only complaint is that we wish it were longer, we were having a lot of fun with it. Well worth our time and money, thanks for porting PH to the App Store, and thank you for adding controller support! We hope to see more games like this in the future :).
Pretty good game just started playing.
Not only does this game have exceptional graphics, beautiful music, and a free trial for you to play. It also has exceptional storytelling and the characters are so adorable. We have said this before and Ill say it again. We think this game is what the Apple Store has been missing for sometime. So Im really happy. This game is here and we think this is going to become a classic.
We liked the game overall, and would appreciate more clues as in, where to go for droplets that you have missed. We finished the game, except for 30 droplets in the Golf course, and theres no way to know if we missed them or if there is a glitch in the game.
Great game and value, well worth the purchase, our only gripe is the need to find a bench to save, as a mobile game, it needs more fluid saves, Ive had to replay parts a few times, the gameplay is fun though, breath of fresh air in the App Store.
We wanted to bad to love this game but we kept getting lost trying to find a patty and as soon as we got past the castle thing it tells us we have to pay to continue so beware before you down its just a trail not the full game and you can get lost easy.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.0
- Size: 981.28 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Secret Mode Limited]()
Last updated: 16th December 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Family | Developer: Secret Mode Limited