Move over Hatoful Boyfriend, the folks at Little Snake Studio are here with their super cute (and hilarious) capybara romance game, Capybara Cafe Chronicles. This is the team’s second game following their historical Vietnamese romance mystery game, Who Murdered My Emperess? Capybara Cafe Chronicles is a heartwarming romance visual novel…
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