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Little Busters!

Little Busters! is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key. The story follows the life of Riki Naoe, a high school student who has been a member of a group of friends named the Little Busters since childhood…

90 27 July 2007

Little Busters! is an adventure developed by Key, released 27 July 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Little Busters! is

Little Busters! is an adventure game developed by Key and released in 2007. It was published by Visual Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Real Live.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Riki was a child when his parents died, leaving him hopeless and depressed. What saved him was a group of four kids calling themselves the Little Busters. They took Riki out and played with him during his time of need. He really enjoyed being together with them, and his grief gradually faded away. Now in his second year of high school they still hang out, fight and live together, and enjoy their school life. Little Busters! contains several mini-games, including a baseball practice game and a duel battle system.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy, drama and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Little Busters series

Little Busters! is the first of 6 entries we hold in the Little Busters series. The next entry was Little Busters! Ecstasy in 2008.

See all 6 Little Busters games in release order →

How it was received

Little Busters! holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 26 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 62.5 hrs.

What it launched against

Little Busters! launched on 27 July 2007, within three weeks of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, The World Ends with You, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword and FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, The World Ends with You, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

Game intro thumbnail

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

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When did Little Busters! come out?
Little Busters! was released on 27 July 2007 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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