"If My Heart Had Wings" is a great visual novel. Although the Steam version, published by MoeNovel, is not even close to being as good as the original Japanese release.

The MoeNovel/Steam version is heavily censored, even unnecessarily so, with entire routes being re-written to remove anything that could be seen as problematic. This would not be a problem if these changes were as good as the original, which they are not. The parts that were re-written are done very poorly, and as such end up being very generic and forgettable. Also the Steam version removed all 18+ scenes (which is a considerable amount of content) which also makes the events of the story a bit harder to understand (due to not having the context from those scenes).

Thankfully, the community has released a patch to revert the game into close to the original Japanese release, featuring the full story re-translated by the community (which is much higher quality translation compared to MoeNovel's translation) as well as all the 18+ scenes. The patch can be found at r/IMHHW on reddit.

The story is long, took me like 30 hours to finish this for the first time. Even though the story is so long, I did not find myself bored of it at any point (And this comes from someone who dislikes reading books). Definitely check this out if you're a fan of anime and don't hate a slice-of-life type of story progression.


The game, in a technical level works about as well as a visual novel made around a decade ago would. The UI is a bit janky and has not aged the best, but still is serviceable. The game also gives you enough save-slots to fit everything that you would want to save.

Overall "If My Heart Had Wings" is an amazing visual novel for anyone who likes anime and does not mind reading. I would not regret buying this even at full price!

"If My Heart Had Wings" is a great visual novel. Although the Steam version, published by MoeNovel, is not even close to being as good as the original Japanese release. The MoeNovel/Steam version is heavily censored, even unnecessarily so, with entire routes being re-written to remove anything that could be seen as problematic. This would not be a problem if these changes were as good as the original, which they are not. The parts that were re-written are done very poorly, and as such end up being very generic and forgettable. Also the Steam version removed all 18+ scenes (which is a considerable amount of content) which also makes the events of the story a bit harder to understand (due to not having the context from those scenes). Thankfully, [b]the community has released a patch to revert the game into close to the original Japanese release[/b], featuring the full story re-translated by the community (which is much higher quality translation compared to MoeNovel's translation) as well as all the 18+ scenes. The patch can be found at r/IMHHW on reddit. The story is long, took me like 30 hours to finish this for the first time. Even though the story is so long, I did not find myself bored of it at any point (And this comes from someone who dislikes reading books). [b]Definitely check this out if you're a fan of anime and don't hate a slice-of-life type of story progression.[/b] The game, in a technical level works about as well as a visual novel made around a decade ago would. The UI is a bit janky and has not aged the best, but still is serviceable. The game also gives you enough save-slots to fit everything that you would want to save. Overall "If My Heart Had Wings" is an amazing visual novel for anyone who likes anime and does not mind reading. [b]I would not regret buying this even at full price![/b]