"So the joke is it's a dating simulator, but all the romance options are pigeons?" they'll ask, bewildered. "Yes. Only it's not really a joke. In fact, it got remade for a western audience because of how popular it was." you can now reply, smiling a little too wide.

The world's most popular pigeon dating simulator Hatoful Boyfriend is now out in a form that doesn't require fan translation patches, if that's your sort of thing. If you're somehow uninitiated, it's the tale of the only human student (you!) going to "St. PigeoNation's Institute, a school for talented birds." You'll chat with and, presumably, up the other fine feathered students in search of true love.

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