Shadow Hearts is a role playing video-game series for the Playstation 2. Shadow Hearts was developed by Sacnoth and released by Midway in the United States. So far this includes the games Shadow Hearts, Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Shadow Hearts: From the New World and was a stealth-sequel to the Plastation 1 video-game Koudelka, which may also be considered part of the series. The heroes of this series are usually connected with the supernatural, old world mysticism or Gothic natures.