Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star
Worth it · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.35.
- Length
- 3.3h 5.9h to 100%
- Value
- $3.03/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 569 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.35 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1162 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
The loveable birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are back in the remastered holiday-themed sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Graphics card with DirectX 9 level (shader model 2.0) capabilities., 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 40 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $4.35 BANGER line 35 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, West of Loathing ($10.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Plug & Play ($3.99, scores 35).
More about Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star
54 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 49 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 209 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to July 2026.
The drop-off
49% start to 49% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Holiday Star takes place in a sort of parallel universe to the original yet still acts as a sort-of sequel. It's very similar to the original in that it starts very comedic and random, but switches gears into a dark, serious story that makes you genuinely forget that these characters are actually just extra-large doves. It is genuinely emotional and has real narrative themes. In particular, Holiday Star expands the...
2 more reviews
I had come into this game thinking that it'll be a deep game like the first one, but the first two chapters had made me think "Hm, maybe it's just a silly game after all and I put too much faith into this series. Surely it can never be as good as the first game." I was so SO wrong. I genuinely feel like they're tackling more difficult issues and yet the writing style seems more beautiful than the previous game. We...
Yeah, this is about what I hoped for/expected from the experience. If you're already here thinking about picking up the game, I'd say you should just go for it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/377080/hatoful-boyfriend-holiday-starReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.