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Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star cover art

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star

Mediatonic · Epic Games · 2015-12-05

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Dec 22, 2015 (PlayStation 4), Dec 22, 2015 (PlayStation Vita), Dec 15, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 15, 2015 (Linux), Dec 15, 2015 (Mac)

The loveable birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are back in the remastered holiday-themed sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star!

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star is an Adventure Indie game released in 2015, priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 569 reviews).

0
playing now
93%
positive of 569 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
54/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
4h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 8h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star , is a visual novel released in Japan on 29 December 2011, with an official English patch being released a year later on Christmas Day. The game is an episodic followup to Hatoful Boyfriend set around the holiday season and takes place in a separate universe from the first game, in which the events of Bad Boys Love do not occur. The sequel, developed largely alongside the first game, makes reference to and explores several unresolved plot elements brought up in the first game's Bad Boys Love scenario that could not be fully addressed in its main narrative. Unlike the first game, Holiday Star is a mostly linear visual novel rather than an otome game, with more standalone scenarios and fewer branching plotlines. On 4 June 2015, it was announced that Mediatonic, the developer responsible for the 2014 remake of the original game, was also developing a remake of Holiday Star, again to be published by Devolver Digital. On 8 December 2015, it was announced that the remake of Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star would be released on 15 December 2015 for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux, and on 22 December 2015 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 14k–34k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 569 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Humble Store (2017-01-12) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620162026Week of 2016-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.992015-12-092023-08-142015-12-09 — best price $8.492016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-02-05 — best price $8.492016-04-28 — best price $2.492016-06-09 — best price $3.392016-07-04 — best price $9.992016-07-13 — best price $14.992016-09-12 — best price $2.492016-11-23 — best price $2.492017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-03-06 — best price $1.992017-04-17 — best price $9.992017-06-06 — best price $1.992017-09-11 — best price $1.992017-11-24 — best price $9.992018-02-12 — best price $2.492018-02-21 — best price $9.992018-05-24 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-02-04 — best price $2.492019-06-18 — best price $9.992019-09-27 — best price $2.492019-11-12 — best price $9.992019-12-05 — best price $1.992020-01-09 — best price $1.992020-01-31 — best price $9.992020-03-16 — best price $1.992020-05-11 — best price $9.992020-06-25 — best price $2.492020-09-14 — best price $9.992020-11-23 — best price $9.992020-12-16 — best price $1.992021-01-21 — best price $1.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $1.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-08-14 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1402026-06-01 — 4 pageviews2026-06-05 — 6 pageviews2026-06-09 — 7 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-17 — 8 pageviews2026-06-21 — 9 pageviews2026-06-25 — 7 pageviews2026-06-29 — 12 pageviews2026-07-03 — 7 pageviews2026-07-07 — 4 pageviews2026-07-11 — 8 pageviews2026-07-15 — 8 pageviews2026-07-19 — 6 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 4 pageviews2026-07-31 — 8 pageviews2026-08-04 — 6 pageviews2026-08-08 — 3 pageviews2026-08-12 — 4 pageviews2026-08-16 — 7 pageviews2026-08-20 — 8 pageviews2026-08-24 — 3 pageviews2026-08-28 — 14 pageviews2026-09-01 — 3 pageviews2026-09-05 — 5 pageviews2026-09-09 — 4 pageviews2026-09-13 — 6 pageviews2026-09-17 — 2 pageviews2026-09-21 — 7 pageviews2026-09-25 — 10 pageviews2026-09-29 — 5 pageviews2026-10-03 — 0 pageviews2026-10-07 — 8 pageviews2026-10-10 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
48.6%
earned "Merry Christmas!"
27.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Japanese, French, German

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-04-15 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4, PS Vita (PlayStation)1,91191%13
Steam (Steam)92861%13

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

AnimeBirdsFunnyIndieMemesOtomeHorrorNudityRomanceAdventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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