Helping Your Boyfriend
- Developer
- Zieelane, Mousefishdog
- Engine
- Unity (Naninovel)
- Length
- About 30 minutes
- Endings
- 4 endings
- Status
- Released
About Helping Your Boyfriend
Helping Your Boyfriend is a cute-turned-creepy horror visual novel. A leg illness has left you unable to walk, so you live with Adrian, a sweet and caring doctor, and every night he brings home old dolls for you to take apart. Then one night a stranger pins you down, holds out a pill and says, “Take this, or you die.” The game has 4 endings, 5 minigames and quick-time events, and was made for the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam.
Inside Helping Your Boyfriend
Why Helping Your Boyfriend Feels Different From Other Horror Games
Horror visual novels rarely take away your legs. Here you can't walk and you can't run, and the whole story is built around that.
- Your character cannot walk, so running away is never a simple option.
- Five minigames, from taking apart dolls to quick-time events.
- 115 CGs and character sprites across 30 backgrounds.
- Customise your name, pronouns and body type.
- Voiced cast: Adrian, Ian and Oliver.
How To Play Helping Your Boyfriend?
Click the bell when you need the menu. Everything else is a choice.
- Press Play Now, then set your name, pronouns and body type.
- Left-click or press Enter to advance text and choose; Space hides the dialogue box.
- Press L for the history log, A for auto-play, and hold Ctrl or press Tab to skip.
- Drag with the mouse in minigames, like cutting the stuffing out of the dolls.
- Use the arrow keys and Spacebar for quick-time events.
- Click the bell at the top for Save, Load and Settings.
Who Will Enjoy Helping Your Boyfriend?
- Players who love horror that starts out sweet.
- Fans of yandere and toxic-relationship stories.
- Anyone who likes minigames and QTEs breaking up the reading.
- People who enjoyed the slow reveal of 14 Days With You.
- If you'd take the pill — or want to see what happens if you don't — this one's for you.
Will You Take the Pill?
Helping Your Boyfriend is built on helplessness. Your character depends on Adrian for everything, which makes every kind word harder to trust once the stranger appears.
Both answers to the pill are worth seeing. With four endings, the night-time choice is the clearest fork in the story, so save right before it.
Sit down, pick up the scissors, and help your boyfriend fix his favourite toy.
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