Best Friend Forever

"I want to love Best Friend Forever more. I want to recommend it to my equally doggo obsessed friends with excitement and not warning. And I will do this when the game is fixed with a simple patch. I also …"

"The game is quite short, you could easily get through several runs in a day, but that shouldn’t be an issue for too long as (again, discovered via their Discord) they have already announced plans to add additional content. There …"

"Best Friend Forever has a lot of great aspects but it didn&s;t end up as the game I expected. It&s;s more care for the pets than for love. Also, there are bugs and technical hiccups that should have been fixed …"

"For any queer person who loves dogs, millennial who loves dogs, or actual dog masquerading as a human, Best Friend Forever is a wholesome, cathartic experience."

"Best Friend Forever has an enjoyable, light-hearted storyline, for an easy relaxed gaming session. Dating Sims can be very hit or miss, and despite being short and having some unfortunate dialogue, I would very much consider this one a hit. …"

"As a visual novel, it lacks the replayability, choice and different paths that fans of the genre seek to truly standout."

"Honestly, Best Friend Forever feels like it&s;s having a constant identity crisis. Mechanically and story-wise, everything feels incredibly disjointed."

"I think the problem is that Best Friend Forever is trying to do several things at once and isn’t really doing any of them well."

"Best Friend Forever is a visual novel covering the first fifteen weeks living in your new apartment. You have just moved to a new city and you are constantly meeting new friends and their dogs. Establishing relationships with these people …"

"Since both dating sims and pet sims can be a little light in overall gameplay the concept of combining them makes quite a bit of sense..."

"Best Friend Forever remains a relaxing, entertaining dating/dog raising sim despite its shortcomings in regards to the story."

"This must be one of the cutest dating sims ever created. Please, tell me that dating mixed with taking care of a freshly adopted pup does not sound lovely? It does, right? Well, the problem here is that none of …"

"Best Friend Forever is an admirable hybrid of two seemingly disparate genres, but both sides of the game suffer from a lack of variety as a result."

"Best Friend Forever is cute, and you’re bound to get some smiles out of it if you’re a pet-lover. Unfortunately, the rest of it ends up feeling half-hearted."

"More than feeling like a dog-lovers game, this feels like the ultimate hipster fantasy and the amount of enjoyment you get out of this title pretty much depends on how much you like these cliché ideas of how millennials feel …"

"Best Friend Forever offers a fairly generic visual novel, with the only hook being one that fails to do anything truly interesting. The management mechanics are the lightest, most fleeting portions of the game, where you&s;re bogged down with a …"

"Ultimately, what I’m getting at is that Best Friend Forever plays like it’s two games inhabiting the same space that only briefly come into contact with one another."