Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Springtime. The season of the cherry blossoms, and a time of new beginnings, new encounters, and new people. For Aoba Kyousuke, this new season marks the start of his second year in high school, and also the year he resolved himself to finally fulfill his long-cherished dream: finding a girlfriend.

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ is a visual novel, anime and dating sim game developed by SMEE and published by NekoNyan Ltd..
Released on May 04th 2018 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 349 reviews of which 340 were positive and 9 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ into these genres:

Visual Novel Anime Dating Sim Simulation Romance Casual Adventure Story Rich Cute Comedy Singleplayer Psychological Horror 2D FPS Multiple Endings Horror Illuminati

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP or newer
  • Processor: 1.3 GHz
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

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May 2025
Himari is my favorite, but Rina is best girl.
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Dec. 2024
Purchased this game thinking of romanticizing a little, perhaps wallow in some self pity while kneeling to the goddess of purity. The game is good.. at first it does seem kinda boring since you're just repeating the same tasks for around 10 days of speaking to these girls and hoping you get to satisfy them with the right questions and answers. Yet, it was a nice surprise that the game didn't end shortly after being given the chance to confess. The game spends a considerable amount of time afterwards with you being in a relationship with these characters. It's honestly the latter half of the game that makes it worth purchasing in all fairness.
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Dec. 2024
Are you perhaps friendless since the day you know you are? This is definitely for you. Friend to Lover... or just try it in IRL. This game wants me to puke at being surreal, that I'm crying. I'll be refunding this game for now. 50% discount is too small for me, as a slave in a corporate world. At the very least, make it 75%... But NN making it like that? I have no hope...
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Sept. 2024
It's very good, but the overuse of expletives and the translation not always conveying what the Japanese writer actually wrote leaves me disgusted with the translator. Writers only use expletives when their vocabulary is inadequate and lacking. The writer wrote that spiders are arthropods, not insects. Phylum Arthropoda is made up of 4 groups, of which both arachnids and insects are included. This leads me to believe that the writer actually meant arachnids, not arthropods. Biology is definitely not one of the writer's strengths. Rina's bikini is actually a bra design and looks out of place at the pool. Rina is written to have said "eureka" when she actually says "yoo-hoo." Rina's eyes are very ugly. The shape, color (poop) and placement are horrible. Rina's character designer was awful and never should have been given the job. I bath regularly? No. I bathe regularly is how it is written. The writer does not know the difference between excretion and secretion. He thinks sweat is a secretion. It is not. It is an excretion because it is exiting the body. Secretions are internal. It is easy to remember because it is done in "secret." Is biology not being taught in school anymore? The translator also uses stupid words like gonna and stuff when writing a love confession which completely and utterly ruins the mood. He has obviously never had a girlfriend and completely lacks the means to articulate feelings properly without using crass expressions or inappropriate slang. The person who did the translation has a very filthy mind and he thinks we want to see it too. He is also the English translator for Sankaku Renai, which was obvious when I started seeing expletives and coarse language every other sentence. He also made the protagonist seem like a total jerk, nearly ruining the story for me. In the game it was written that giraffes are not herbivores and that they eat meat. That is dead wrong. Giraffes are herbivores. TBAC (Matthew Carolan) is one of my least favorite translators. He uses the word "legit" in seemingly every other sentence, wearing out its novelty within a few paragraphs. Fureraba is very good, but the overuse of expletives, incorrect wording and misspelling made it far less enjoyable than it could have been. TBAC's writing is so bad that I had to ctrl-skip through most of the game's dialogue. At least the voice acting was very well done. FYI: It's spelled chihuahua, not chiwawa. 6/10
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June 2024
Fureraba is a rather decent moege, most of the game is comedy but there are some surprisingly emotional & heartwarming moments. Even though this is an old game, CGs are very well-drawn and still up-to-date with today’s standards, H-scenes aren’t lengthy which is a huge plus in my opinion. The main problem I have with Fureraba is its protagonist, out of every Smee games I’ve read (Fureraba, Making Lovers, Sugar Style, HaremKingdom), Kyousuke is the most hyperenergetic, he’s quite calm in some routes yet super annoying in others, especially in Himari’s route. Overall a good game, as long as you won’t easily get annoyed by the protagonist’s antic, you should buy and experience Fureraba.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ received 340 positive votes out of a total of 349 achieving a rating of 8.93.
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Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ was developed by SMEE and published by NekoNyan Ltd..

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ is not playable on MacOS.

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ is not playable on Linux.

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ is a single-player game.

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Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ does not support Steam Remote Play.

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~
28.99€
8.9
340
9
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SMEE
Publisher
NekoNyan Ltd.
Release 04 May 2018
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