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How To Date A Magical Girl!

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2019

Should you play it?

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?

What works

  • Engaging story with psychological horror
  • Deep character development
  • Long playtime and replayability
  • Interesting time and resource management
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Ending considered disappointing or predictable
  • Some grindy and repetitive gameplay elements
  • Limited gender-specific dialogue and customization
  • Inconsistent art quality between sprites and cgs
  • Some pacing issues and tonal shifts

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS

  • Lucid9: Inciting Incident

  • NOeSIS01_诉说谎言记忆物语

  • Sound of Drop - fall into poison -

  • YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story

  • Magical Girl Witch Trials

Less violent

Games that feels like How To Date A Magical Girl! but with less combat and destruction

  • Gaokao.Love.100Days

  • Ethereal Enigma

  • NEKOPARA Vol. 4

  • Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~

  • Dandelion - Wishes brought to you -

  • If My Heart Had Wings

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like How To Date A Magical Girl! but with less survival pressure

  • Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!

  • Marco & The Galaxy Dragon

  • I'a I'a Cofflhu Fhtagnyaa

  • Hatsuyuki Sakura

  • Ark Mobius: Censored Edition

  • Crystalline

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How To Date A Magical Girl!: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026