# Dr\. Frank's Build a Boyfriend

Summer DB entity ID: 2dd0dbc3\-c5ed\-4420\-bc96\-9c8f8e8f976e

Steam App ID: 742170

Build Your Own Customizable Boyfriend\!    After being kicked out of both his PhD program \(plant science\) as well as medical school \(Pathology\), Dr\. Frank had pretty much resolved himself to a life of solitude and science\. That is, until a handsome stranger knocked on his door and swept him off his feet\. Dominik seemed to be the perfect boyfriend\- attentive, caring, and interested in Dr\. Frank's work\.    Maybe too interested\.    Three months into the rainbow\-colored relationship, Dominik runs off with Dr\. Frank's lifelong research on resurrection to present at the annual prestigious Hindenberg University Conference, under his own name\.    Livid, Dr\. Frank decides the only course of action: Revenge\.    Not only is Dr\. Frank going to one\-up Dominik's presentation by presenting the world's first artificial life form, but Dr\. Frank is going to make said life form the world's hottest, most beautiful boyfriend\.    EVER\.    Dr\. Frank's Build\-A\-Boyfriend is a comedy BL visual\-novel mixed with point\-and\-click adventure elements\.    GAMEPLAY INCLUDES:    \- Visual novel of over 20k words\.  \- Building your own customizable 'boyfriend'\.  \- Going through all the locations as a puzzle to find clothes for your monster\.  \- Several key routes and endings\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Heiden

- Publisher: Visual Wordplay

- Release date: May 30, 2018

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: true

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Nudity, Free To Play, Indie, Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742170/ss\_ee00c06375983a4590d1ef318bec2e23adc23c82\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1527727518, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742170/ss\_801880b769a9ad0b3bd08bc68f3e6f4774fd6eb0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1527727518, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742170/ss\_618b56d1cbe564ac8872ed4a111498a8bc99a533\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1527727518, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742170/ss\_e92f3e326d4c54e18021c57b3838c6e3f9076ab6\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1527727518, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742170/ss\_3145fdfc6eb7309febfc6d6cdd797f0a1397477f\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1527727518

- Price: Not collected

- Price country: Not collected

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 295

- Steam positive reviews: 261

- Steam negative reviews: 34

- Steam positive percentage: 88.47457627118644%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/2dd0dbc3-c5ed-4420-bc96-9c8f8e8f976e/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/2dd0dbc3-c5ed-4420-bc96-9c8f8e8f976e/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T05:25:37\.512782\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T05:25:38\.950414\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T05:25:38\.528495\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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