How To Date A Magical Girl!

You're invited to the elite academy for magical girls! Will you take the opportunity to make new friends? Learn magic? Or... Will you try to date a cute magical girl?

How To Date A Magical Girl! is a visual novel, anime and psychological horror game developed by Cafe Shiba and published by RIVER CROW STUDIO.
Released on January 31st 2019 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 459 reviews of which 370 were positive and 89 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 7.39€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified How To Date A Magical Girl! into these genres:

Visual Novel Anime Psychological Horror Violent Adventure Simulation Casual Dating Sim Singleplayer Cute Romance Horror Gore Dark Story Rich Female Protagonist Indie Great Soundtrack First-Person

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (32bit/64bit)
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: 1280 x 720 or higher display

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

I personally like the twist at the end. Also, the "Bad Ending" and "Mystery Ending" are the two best endings you can get. The "Happy Ending" is the most miserable and pathetic ending you can pick. Suffah MC.

Nov. 2024

Brilliant and graphic. I also like how much strategy is involved in order to achieve different outcomes.

Sept. 2024

Originally, I was planning on giving it a reluctant positive review, or nothing. But then I thought more about the story it told.. and you know what... It's a damn good story, and I think it deserves more positive ratings than it has now Of course, "very positive" is by no means a bad rating, I just wish to make it clear that, yeah, the execution isn't perfect, like DDLC's was. Since comparing this game to DDLC seems to be the meta lol But, in my opinion, anyway, the actual story of this game is just as good as DDLC's. I'd go as far as to say better, but they're truly about different things and themes, so what's the point in comparing them? It's thought provoking, and the depth of the story will probably grow on you for awhile after experiencing it That being said One negative thing about it, is the gameplay really doesn't need to be there. It's clearly there just to give the illusion that you're playing a dating game, and it does ok at that, it makes you use your brain, and allocate it to tasks other than trying to predict what will happen next So, it does it's job But it doesn't need to be as tedious as it is, I don't think. Not the worst thing in the world, but the pacing for it is slightly off, and your stats will not necessarily impact the story in the ways you'd expect it would. That system is just there to keep you paying attention and actually engaging with the game

July 2024

I absolutely LOVED that this was a management stat sim integrated in a visual novel. The characters were pretty sweet and the game made me unsettled a lot. Most unique protagonist reaction to death I have ever seen, and horror is my favorite genre. Ending disappointed me hardly and had me thinking on the game for a while. Bittersweet, I just wish the plot twist wasn't there. Also Rei is BEST girl by far.... Dang I wish there was a sequel ;-;

May 2024

The ending-- that's just plain mean. The good ending-- that's more messed up than the bad ending! So why the thumbs up? Because the key to good horror is to make it realistic and in this century, some aspects learned in the ending might be possible. I don't want to be around to see the backlash of what said person subjected to it will unleash. Don't know what I'm talking about? Then read the VN and find out.

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7.39€

7.6

370

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Developer

Cafe Shiba

Publisher

RIVER CROW STUDIO

Release 31 Jan 2019

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