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A new visual novel from the legendary eXtend! Mixing dangerous romance with murder mystery, BUSTAFELLOWS is a steamy noir mystery that will make you shiver but ask for more!

BUSTAFELLOWS is a otome, visual novel and female protagonist game developed by NIPPON CULTURAL BROADCASTING EXTEND INC. and published by PQube.
Released on July 30th 2021 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Japanese.

It has received 885 reviews of which 771 were positive and 114 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified BUSTAFELLOWS into these genres:

Otome Visual Novel Female Protagonist Story Rich Noir Romance Multiple Endings Adventure Anime Choices Matter Dating Sim Text-Based Puzzle Colorful Crime Singleplayer Casual Action Action-Adventure Simulation

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
Storage: 3 GB available space

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Feb. 2025

[H1]BUSTAFELLOWS Play as Teuta, a sharp and intelligent journalist with a special ability arriving in New Sieg, a city full of crime, corruption, and hidden agendas! Investigating a morally grey lawyer named Limbo leads you to witnessing his murder, and in an attempt to stop it, Teuta uses her gift to turn back time immediately gaining his, and his friends, attention. Now entangled in the lives and secrets of five men, explore a new world full of danger, intrigue, and of course, romance!!! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3403603183 15-40 hours to complete, BUSTAFELLOWS is an otome visual novel set in a noir-inspired world. There are 5 romanceable characters, each with their own distinct personality, backstory, and motivation. Fully voice acted with more adjustable voice options in settings and a significant amount of CGs, this game is already well worth playing. Something to note however, is that the story doesn’t end when your romance route does! Only by completing every route, can you read the other half of the novel; every route focuses on a separate part of the storyline and relates to that character’s background, and it’s worth playing through them all to tie up the loose ends and understand the full story. Highly recommended and I’m excited to read BUSTAFELLOWS 2! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3406530586

July 2024

imo mc is wildly childish for the situations and the career she's in, but she is definitely less of a self insert (unlike most visual novels) which i really dig. for how much game time and fun i had, which I am just 15% of the story in btw , definitely WORTH the price. personally , i'll definitely try to 100% the game soon, fucking love the characters in here, 11/10 personalities.

July 2024

This otome game was such a pleasure to play. All the characters were drawn so beautifully! The backgrounds were really detailled and the music switched with the mood, location and ending. Also, I LOVE the fact that they included a music player where you can listen to all the songs once more. The (side) characters were interesting, everyone had their own personality as well as flaws and backstory and nothing was at all shallow or repetitive. You could select the chapters to play so you don't have to go through the prologue every time and there is a skip button which I have grown to appreciate very much, since it either stops at new text/dialogue or the next decision. All the characters really grew on me and, though I loved reading the stories, I have to say they were a bit short, in my opinion. I would’ve loved for them to be a bit longer. But saving Shu for last was a good decision - I enjoyed his route the most. He’s absolute best boy and ilhsm! I also love all the “easter eggs” and that every story and route was well written and, albeit a romance, was also very tragic in one way or another and there was lots of suspense in every route. What I did dislike though were the weird controls. Like, why? I literally had to research to find out how to adjust the settings and exit the game. So if you are currently playing or considering playing, here's what you need to know: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2568023044 If you don't have a "home" button, by the way, try pos1. Also, the game is fully voiced, which is amazing! If you pick the default name for the heroine, they even call her by her name! What bothered me though was that they subbed everything except for the two post-epilogue videos and the start of every chapter, as well as sometimes even the very end of a chapter/scene and previews for the next episodes. I really don’t understand why they chose to stop translating, but it was bothering me so I looked up the translation for the marked spoiler online to get a gist of what was being said. Lastly, I have to admit I really didn’t enjoy the two epilogue stories. “Full Circle” was fine, though I found it weird that suddenly everyone was involved in the Ruy Lopez Organisation, but “Auld Lang Syne” just ruined the story for me. They really just had to go and make Zora an absolute asshole, ruin Professor Sauli for me and this time really, actually rob Helvetica of his last parent, have this insanely cruel thing happen to Luka and then give Adam a tumor and have him leave just like that… Instead, they could’ve given us an alternative route where Adam actually confessed and was a romanceable character - I would’ve loved that. But all in all I really enjoyed playing this game and am absolutely STOKED for season 2 in 2025. 8.5/10 *hums The Yellow Rose of Texas*

June 2024

Love this game! But I only bought it on sale cause the price is really crazy :')

June 2024

Played on steam deck with no issues. The "found family" vibe is lovely and pervades the story. A few minor spelling inconsistencies like Zora/Zola, Tayra/Tyra, and Theo/Teo. It's a little strange that the protagonist is constantly being described as childish and immature when she is out here watching people die and saving lives. Also, Helvetica sucks.

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39.99€

8.2

771

114

Online players

Developer

NIPPON CULTURAL BROADCASTING EXTEND INC.

Publisher

PQube

Release 30 Jul 2021

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