Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star

The loveable birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are back in the remastered holiday-themed sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star! Travel to fantastically styled worlds, meet interesting new chickadees, and find…

54 15 December 2015 ESRB E10+

Adventure Indie Role-playing (RPG) Visual Novel Comedy Romance

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star is an adventure developed by Mediatonic, released 15 December 2015 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.

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What Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star is

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star is an adventure game developed by Mediatonic and released in 2015. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The loveable birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are back in the remastered holiday-themed sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star! Travel to fantastically styled worlds, meet interesting new chickadees, and find romance in the elegantly designed winter wonderlands. Dust the snow off your wings and take flight with familiar faces and new friends alike in extraordinary adventures hatched from the whimsical mind of the series creator Hato Moa and developer Mediatonic!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 13 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star holds a critic score of 54 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 8 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1 GB RAM and Graphics card with DirectX 9 level (shader model 2.0) capabilities.. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star launched on 15 December 2015, within three weeks of Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege and Bloodborne: The Old Hunters. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege, Bloodborne: The Old Hunters.

Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star gameplay screenshot

Quick answers

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star — frequently asked questions

When did Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star come out?

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star was released on 15 December 2015 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star?

At minimum, Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star needs 1 GB RAM, Graphics card with DirectX 9 level (shader model 2.0) capabilities. graphics, 300 MB available space of storage.

How long does it take to beat Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star?

The main story of Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star takes around 4 hrs, or 8 hrs for 100% completion.

How many GB is Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star?

The PC version needs about 0.3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("300 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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