Dearest Darling Dragon is a stat-raising otome visual novel where you take the role of a newly licensed Divine Beast Educator searching for work. After answering a suspicious job listing, you arrive at Princess Petra's Academy for Young Divine Beasts and are given responsibility for a mysterious egg. The game combines story-driven visual novel choices with stat management and point-and-click interactions. Your decisions influence the traits and personality of the creature you are raising as well as how characters around you respond. Alongside your responsibilities as an educator, you can build relationships with coworkers and get to know several dragon bachelors through branching dialogue and romance-focused scenes. The currently available itch.io version is a demo featuring the opening portion of the story, two weeks of stat-raising, introductions to the main bachelors, and interactive segments. The full game is still in development and is planned to significantly expand the raising system, romance routes, battles, character artwork, and story.