Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star

This page is for the 2015 remake. For the original game, see Hatoful Kareshi HolidayStar.

Hatoful Boyfriend
Hatoful Kareshi	2011
Hatoful Kareshi HolidayStar	2011
Hatoful Boyfriend	2014
Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star	2015

General information

Visual Novel Database article

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GOG.com (unavailable)
Humble Store (unavailable)
Steam		Game can be run without Steam open.^[2]

The native Linux and mac versions were removed around July 2023, (as reflected on the steam page).

Name	Notes
Dove, Actually	Also known as Collector's pack

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mediatonic\Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star\
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/377080/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Hatoful Boyfriend Holiday Star\HB2_Data\SavedGames\HB2\^{[Note 3]}
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/377080/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Unity launcher.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Enable windowed mode and use the `-popupwindow` parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Keyboard and mouse, touch	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration		OS cursor used.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Touchscreen optimised
Controller
Controller support

General settings.

Language settings.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
OpenGL

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3, 7 SP1, 8	7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	300 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0 compatible Shader model 2.0 support

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 12.04	Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)		1 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)		300 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0 compatible Shader model 2.0 support

↑ Unity engine build: 5.2.1p4^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/377080/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (377080) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).