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ebi-hime · Published by ebi-hime
Content notice: This story contains infrequent cursing, mentions of smoking and alcohol consumption, and references to bereavement. This story also depicts a consensual romantic relationship between two adult male characters who are cousins.
8 user reviews — 100% positive (8 reviews) · 4 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
A sweetly domestic boys' love visual novel about a couple of young men who find themselves raising a child.
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Indie, Casual · 2025 · More £5 - £15 games
Explore tender domestic scenes and heartfelt relationships in Where the Heart Rests, an intimate boys' love story where you guide a couple through parenthood.
About this game
Yuel never did get on with his father, Khalil. He found the man overbearing and abrasive, and the fraught relationship between the pair all-but disintegrated once Yuel left for university. For eight years, Yuel has heard nothing from his father: something he feels only vague flickers of remorse about...
Until, in a shocking twist of fate, Khalil's lawyer and close confidant, Armand, reaches out to him. His father, quite unexpectedly, has passed away, and he has left his prodigal son a hefty inheritance.
Even more shocking, however, is the revelation that Yuel is not an only child, as he always imagined. In the eight years that they fell out of contact, Khalil fathered another child in his sixties: a young boy called Reza.
Reza's existence was kept a secret from Yuel's entire family, and when word gets out about him, there's an uproar. Nobody wants to take the young boy in, and it seems likely he'll be sent to an orphanage until Yuel steps up.
Though Yuel lives in a small, rundown apartment at the age of twenty-eight, he's determined to do right by his younger brother. He's determined to look after Reza as best he can, and he isn't alone. Yuel's older cousin, Tavi, offers to help - and, in so doing, Yuel's life is changed for good.
- 110k words of text (approx 4-6 hours of reading)
- a linear story with no choices/branches
- a custom soundtrack
- custom artwork
- cute domestic fluff
- a down to earth romance story
- a sweet, soothing story
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows XP or newer
- Processor: 1Ghz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX® 9 Compatible Graphics Card
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any audio output
Supported Languages
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Extra Chapter of BL VN All Scars and Starlight has been released!
Hello everyone! I've been working on this project for a while, and I'm proud to announce that I've released some DLC for my grimdark boys 'love' visual novel, All Scars and Starlight. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/1ee7b35019a5a9402a2d6188f4c7c4960cb361b2.png Scars is a BL story about a king whose throne was stolen from him in a coup, and the romance(?) which unfolds between the deposed king and his captor. As one might expect from the premise, it's rather grim, the characters have an incredibly unhealthy relationship dynamic, and there's a lot of drama. This is also an r18 visual novel with a fair amount of explicit scenes, so it is not appopriate for anybody under the age of 18. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/fb5691e059eba55c88397ffab76e1f78b1914f81.png The DLC adds about 80,000 words extra to the story, and it takes place one year after the 'good' and 'true' endings, but before the timeskip to the epilogues of both endings. To read the bonus chapter, you need to update the base game, buy the DLC, then read through either the 'good' or 'true' ending. You should be able to access the DLC after that. Please note: you will need to clear these two endings again, even if you achieved them once already, because I had to edit the code of the game a little to allow for the DLC to unlock. You can find the base game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2827190/All_Scars_and_Starlight/ And the DLC here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4279090/All_Scars_and_Starlight__Extra_chapter/ I hope you enjoy it, if miserable anime boys crying a lot are your thing! I know they're mine! You should heed the content warnings for this VN carefully, though, since there's some dark stuff here. - ebi xRead full article on Community Announcements (ebihime)AnnouncementsOfficial
Extra Chapter of BL VN All Scars and Starlight has been released!
Hello everyone! I've been working on this project for a while, and I'm proud to announce that I've released some DLC for my grimdark boys 'love' visual novel, All Scars and Starlight. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/1ee7b35019a5a9402a2d6188f4c7c4960cb361b2.png Scars is a BL story about a king whose throne was stolen from him in a coup, and the romance(?) which unfolds between the deposed king and his captor. As one might expect from the premise, it's rather grim, the characters have an incredibly unhealthy relationship dynamic, and there's a lot of drama. This is also an r18 visual novel with a fair amount of explicit scenes, so it is not appopriate for anybody under the age of 18. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/fb5691e059eba55c88397ffab76e1f78b1914f81.png The DLC adds about 80,000 words extra to the story, and it takes place one year after the 'good' and 'true' endings, but before the timeskip to the epilogues of both endings. To read the bonus chapter, you need to update the base game, buy the DLC, then read through either the 'good' or 'true' ending. You should be able to access the DLC after that. Please note: you will need to clear these two endings again, even if you achieved them once already, because I had to edit the code of the game a little to allow for the DLC to unlock. You can find the base game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2827190/All_Scars_and_Starlight/ And the DLC here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4279090/All_Scars_and_Starlight__Extra_chapter/ I hope you enjoy it, if miserable anime boys crying a lot are your thing! I know they're mine! You should heed the content warnings for this VN carefully, though, since there's some dark stuff here. - ebi xRead full article on Community Announcements (ebihime)AnnouncementsOfficial
Cute BL VN Where the Heart Rests has been released!
Hi everyone, Quick post to let you know that my cute new BL visual novel Where the Heart Rests has been released. It's a wholesome slice of life story inspired by the anime Usagi Drop. It's about a couple of men who adopt a young child. There's a lot of domestic fluff here, and some yearning between the two adult leads. The romantic relationship is a bit of a slowburn, and it's kind of lowkey. There's also a fair bit of hurt/comfort here because I think it's cute! This should be a nice read for people who like cosy and cute romance stories with relatively low stakes and some light drama. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/b42dabbf4075a2c61a31bbea295c85d2329bfea6.png https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/55e0748c4d06143f246b1749b7c484d0ada9496a.png You can buy the VN here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4099090/ But please read the mature content warning. There is no r18 content in this visual novel, but it might contain some themes which would upset people. - ebi xRead full article on Community Announcements (ebihime)
