Hatoful Boyfriend Reviews

tweet tweet bird dating sim :) ( I just got brutally murdered :)

The peak amongst peaks of visual novels. A must-read for fans of this medium.

Excellent writing, charming characters, great soundtrack.

This game is so much fun it is so silly!!! I LOVE YOU OKOSAN LET ME JOIN YOU IN YOUR PUDDING PARADISE 💔💔💔💔💔

This is truly and genuinely the best game I've ever played. I've had it since I was was 10/11 on the PS4 and recently re-bought it on here cuz I really missed playing it and I have never been happier ever. If I could only play one game for the rest of my life it would be this and I would never even think about complaining. I think this game is genuinely a masterpiece and I hope everyone who helped make it experiences nothing but joy for the rest of their life. I cannot express how much I truly love this game.

The game becomes funnier if you think about it. A pigeon reading books? A pigeon playing the piano? A pigeon shedding tears? A pigeon holding a knife? The interface and controls are atrociously bad though. The story is also bareboned. Until you start the true end's route which is a hilarious higurashi parody.

Finally got around to playing this game last weekend, I get why people like it so much! Hatoful Boyfriend has a very unique charm. It's so silly, but it has its surprises! Ryouta's route genuinely made me a little emotional, which I was definitely not expecting from this goofy bird game. Also, the English localization is really good!

I got this game for the laughs, but I stayed for the wtf-ness. 10/10 no notes. If you get all the endings the weirdness makes enough sense that you can see where it was going if you squint (in a good way)

Amazing, it's well written and hilarious. Even now in 2025 it's a very solid game in terms of comedy, likable characters, and the sheer chaos lol. I highly recommend this game for someone who wants a good read, some silly characters, and a story that can get surprisingly dark at times.

Surprisingly compelling. I haven't the faintest idea how to explain this game without massive spoilers, but I'll try. You're the only human who's been accepted to a very picky and high-class high school that normally only takes students from the dominant life form - birds. Most of us picked up the game because it looked ridiculous, but as you start to progress the narrative starts sliding you questions - why do you live in a cave and run down prey on foot for food? Where are the other humans? Is St. PigeoNation's an actual school or just a front for something bigger? Are your classmates all what they seem to be? Is your school doctor just a little weird or is there something else going on? Why does your math teacher fall asleep in class? Why are you so closely watched by the head of the school? What really happened to the missing student? Suddenly it's no longer a silly dating sim and you're firmly into buried history and lost memories and espionage and counter-terrorism territory, and wondering how you got there and whether your character is going to get out alive. You'll find yourself playing multiple routes to find more pieces of the overarching narrative, putting together what happened in the recent past and what is attempting to happen in the very near future and how to thwart, change, or survive it. There is a fair bit of horror in several of the routes, so please take that into consideration if you're not a fan of the genre.