The game went through location tests in Japan starting in late 2009, and was officially released on console on January 13, 2011.

[5] The latest update version known as Arcana Heart 3: Love Max Six Stars Xtend!!!!!

!, written with multiple exclamation marks) was announced on April 24, 2019, and released on April 30, 2021 for Microsoft Windows and December 15, 2023 for arcades on exA-Arcadia, adding three more characters who were originally meant to be DLC characters in the original Love Max Six Stars update, despite Team Arcana no longer being with Examu, after the team's former parent company was dismissed from video game business as of the end of February 2020.

The console versions have a fully voiced story mode and HD anime graphics for super moves.

The game's setting takes place in a fictional, somewhat futuristic Japan combined with fantasy elements.

In the previous game, Arcana Heart 2, a dimensional distortion occurred in the country's Kanto region, caused by the primordial being known as Angelia Avallone.

The international Holy Spirit Institutions suffered harshly after the "Great Kanto Incident", but restoration has begun and about two months have elapsed.

In this time, a family that had received technical assistance during the war in Europe created "The Drexler Institution" to resume its activities around the world.

As part of a stretch goal of the Kickstarter campaign for the Steam release of Love Max Six Stars!!!!!

Weiß (ヴァイス, Vaisu) is the last and newest of the three main protagonists of the game, alongside Heart Aino and Petra Johanna Lagerkvist.

Drexler has developed an armored Holy Spirit inspired by the Norse war god Tyr.

[10] Scharlachrot (シャルラッハロート, Sharurahharōto), the secondary antagonist of the game, is another one of the young girls trained by the Drexler Institute, much like Weiß.

Despite being freed from Drexler's brainwashing in After Story, her psychotic side is still lingering within her as a side-effect result.

It is the ultimate creation of the Drexler Institute, a giant artificial Arcana created to resemble Gottfried.

Minori is an “Hybride”, a special Valkyrie who can dually wield the powers of the Arcana and the Geist (armored spirits developed at the Drexler Institute).

A "shark girl" creature brought to life by the influence of Parace L'sia, who become her Arcana, just as Mildred being Angelia's.

[17][18] A girl from a dark future who closely resembles the protagonist Heart Aino, but both polar opposite than her and somehow harbors a deep hatred against her, due to believing that she would possibly enact a tragedy in the former's timeline.

[18] However, at a time when Xtend was first released, Dark Heart initially don't have her respective Arcana in this updated title at a moment.

An ancient angel who sealed herself a long time ago, due to her power was too great to be released.

Some of these downloadable characters were part of the crowdfunding via Kickstarter during the release of original Love Max Six Stars!!!!

[25][26] Toshimichi Mori, an Arc System Works employee and designer of BlazBlue series, stated in an interview that over 50,000 units of the game have been shipped.

[28] Play magazine said, "the kiddy exterior masks a surprisingly complex game that rewards investment."

The updated Arcana Heart 3: Love Max received a Famitsu score of 28/40 for both the Vita and PS3 platforms.