Dr. Frank's Build A Boyfriend Demo

Science is always trying to compete with nature, but there are areas where humans are not even remotely close to imitating it. Besides taming storms and predicting earthquakes reliably, we also have problems when it comes to keeping things alive, or even worse, creating life. Hence, there are plenty of sci-fi stories out there about scientists who defy logic and conduct incredible experiments.

Dr. Frank's Build A Boyfriend is a humorous visual novel with dating sim elements, in which you play as a mad scientist trying to get revenge on his thieving apprentice. The game allows you to interact with a variety of characters and even create your own from scratch. There are also puzzles to solve and a variety of interactive scenes, so this is much more enjoyable than a kinetic visual novel.

To begin with, Dr. Frank’s story begins when he is kicked out of his Ph.D. program because of his wild ideas. After starting his own gig, a young man appears at his doorstep, who also becomes Dr. Frank’s boyfriend. However, the whole thing goes wrong when the young man turns out to be a traitor and steals the doctor’s invention in order to present it as his own at a prestigious conference.

As such, Frank decides to blow his student out of the water at the conference in question by building a human being from scratch. You get to choose a few things about the boyfriend he creates, including things like eye and skin color. As mentioned before, there are other puzzles and mini-games along the way too, so you can easily re-play the game and have a different experience every time.

In terms of graphics, the game looks as funny as the writing itself, but not in a bad way. Some of the backdrops can be a tad too simple and sketchy sometimes, but the characters feel unique and relatable most of the time. The interface is very intuitive as well, although you rarely do much other than click around. The music is not bad either, and it goes pretty well with the events unfolding on the screen.

As strange as the underlying idea might be, it’s nice to see something as unique as Dr. Frank's Build A Boyfriend out there. Hence, while this is merely a demo at this point, the game is already a must-try for every dating sim fan out there.