Bionic Heart



By 2099, global warming has transformed Earth into a Single Biome Planet where it is always raining, and the environment has been destroyed. People are forced to eat flavored foam because animals cannot be raised and crops cannot be cultivated.

Luke Black is a successful programmer and bioengineer for Nanotech in London. Apart from his stellar programming skills and relative wealth, Luke is an average guy experiencing relationship problems with Helen, his fiancé, while trying to maintain his friendship with Tom, his best friend.

One night, an android named Tanya arrives at Luke’s apartment and demands to be let in. Tanya is on the run from her creators and the police, and needs Luke’s help in discovering why she possesses memories from the early 21st century. Around the same time, Luke is offered a top secret position at his company to work in the laboratory developing parts for androids.

Bionic Heart is a Sci-Fi Visual Novel created by Tycoon Games, fully voiced with 24 endings. Download the demo or purchase it here.

This Visual Novel contains examples of:

 * AI Is a Crapshoot: At the very start of the game, Tanya has rebelled against her creators and escaped from the lab where she was created. As you continue playing, there are plenty of endings where Tanya will do objectionable things, such as
 * Amnesiac Dissonance: Tanya learns that
 * Artificial Human: Tanya has a metal skeleton, but she has artificial organs identical to a human’s. They don’t function, however.
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive: Richard, the CEO of Nanotech, bribes the police into pursuing Tanya as a fugitive, illegally manufactures androids, and
 * Cyberpunk With a Chance of Rain: It is always dark and raining everywhere.
 * Do Androids Dream: Luke struggles with the fact that Tanya seems to feel and express emotions just as any human would.
 * Flying Car: Luke has a hovercar.
 * Future Food Is Artificial: Almost everyone is a vegetarian in the future because the constant rain and lack of sunlight makes it impossible to raise livestock and difficult to grow fresh crops. People typically eat a sort of flavored foam instead of real food.
 * Et Tu Brute: if you choose to tell him the truth about Tanya.
 * Green Eyed Monster: In one ending,
 * Heel Face Turn:
 * Heroic BSOD: Tanya snaps when she discovers that
 * Heroic Sacrifice: After expressing regret for helping Richard,
 * Love Triangle: Two different ones. The first is between Tanya, Luke and Helen. The second is between Luke, Helen and
 * Mega Corp: The company Luke and Tom work for. They deal with nanotechnology, using this information to illegally build androids.
 * Ms. Fanservice: Tanya, full stop. Helen’s outfits are extra Stripperific.
 * Nanotechnology: Allows Tanya’s skin to completely heal within minutes even if half her face has been blown off.
 * Not Even Bothering With the Accent: Although the story is set in London, not one of the characters has an English accent.
 * Only Friend: The only friend Luke seems to have at work is Tom, who is the social type trying to help Luke get out more.
 * People Jars:
 * Personality Chip: Except that the personality chip in Tanya’s head is, in actuality,
 * Psychic Powers: Julia was a psychic in her past life,
 * Robot Girl: Tanya and Julia.
 * Robotic Psychopath: If you fail to calm down Tanya after
 * Shout Out: When Helen, Tom, and Luke escape to Mars, Luke’s alias is Lucas Walker.
 * Single Biome Planet: Global warming has destroyed Earth’s climate; as a result, rainclouds have blocked out the sun, and it is always raining. With the exception of Italy.
 * Talking to Himself: Dan Conlin voices Luke and Richard, Danielle Kogan voices Helen, Tanya and Tina, and Brandon Baus voices Tom and Roby.
 * The Mole: In the ending where Tina is captured, if you choose to free her and flee with Tanya without learning of Richard's whereabouts, it is revealed that
 * Tron Lines: Luke’s apartment seems to be completely made of Tron Lines.
 * Unwilling Roboticisation: When you try to report Nanotech’s illegal experiments to the police,
 * Video Phone: Whenever Luke needs to call someone, they appear via video phone.
 * Yandere/Cute and Psycho: Tanya’s feelings towards Luke drift from curiosity to obsession. There’s a point in the story where Tanya ends up in a dispute with Helen over Luke.