Hatoful Boyfriend
Bird dating visual novel with branching school romances and secrets
Mediatonic, Hato Moa · Published by Epic Games · Released Sep 4, 2014
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 94% of 7,582
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 6
- daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 3 years ago
- Dec 7, 2022
Metacritic: 68/100 (critic reviews)
What is Hatoful Boyfriend?
A single-player dating visual novel set at a school for birds, where you play the only human student. You spend time with bird characters, choose elective classes to raise stats, and pursue different relationships across branching stories and endings.
For you if...
- +you like romance stories with multiple endings
- +you enjoy bird jokes alongside darker story turns
- +you want to replay routes to uncover hidden stories
Not for you if...
- −you want action rather than reading character conversations
- −you dislike replaying routes to see different endings
- −you prefer comedy without serious story turns
What players say
94% of 7,582 reviews are positive
Players praise the writing for mixing bird jokes with more serious, interconnected stories. Some players find the school dating plot familiar or the choices limited, while others dislike the shift toward a serious tone.
How many players finish Hatoful Boyfriend?
33% of Steam players have unlocked «Carve it into your soul, kid! LOVE BLASTER!», the achievement for finishing the main story.
Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.
Screenshots and trailer
Hatoful Boyfriend system requirements
Minimum: DirectX 9 GPU, 1 GB RAM, 0.3 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Hatoful Boyfriend?
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Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP with SP2 or later; Windows 7 with SP1 or later; Windows 8
- Graphics
- Graphics card with DirectX 9 level (shader model 2.0) capabilities.
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM
- Storage
- 300 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0
- Notes
- Windows Vista is not supported.
Does Hatoful Boyfriend have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Hatoful Boyfriend run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Shows Steam Deck controller icons
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 16
- Steam features
- Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Text only: English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian.
Does Hatoful Boyfriend use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
