Free: Best visual novel games

If you're nervous about job searching and interviews, face your fears head-on in "Welcome to the Karoshi Club" a Japanese horror business punk visual novel.

Kamishibai Interactive · 2023 · PC

Get ready for a tale where every cup poured is a step closer to unraveling the mysteries that bind the afterlife. Take on a soul-stirring quest as you serve lost souls, piece together your forgotten past, and unveil the chilling secrets…

2024 · PC, Mac

"What wish would you ask the witch to grant?" In a world ruined by pollution, the oceans have swallowed the lands. Ramil is a scavenger, a lowlife who digs through the trash littering his once idyllic hometown. One day he finds a…

Chattercap · Linux, PC, Mac

It Paints Me is a short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain, and love.

ENDYSIS · 2023 · Web, Linux, PC

Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.

2024 · PC

In this small visual novel, lay down and relax with Sakuya Izayoi. Talk to her, kiss her or just simply enjoy each other's presence! Chose between 3 different locations featuring stunning artwork in this Touhou Project Fangame.

Sigyaad Team · 2024 · PC

A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.

2024 · PC, Mac

A short visual novel about war, peace and hope. Explore a city after a devastating war. Talk to people, try to understand, try to help. The heroes of war are dead, but you can be a hero of peace!

2025 · Linux, PC, Mac

Essence Bloom is a linear, story-focused indie visual novel that allows the player to experience a world with beautiful cherry blossoms and fun times with friends....

2024 · PC

Experience Conor's first three visual novels. There's a story about a lonely man going for a walk, a guy getting tapped in a prison cell on an island, and a girl trying to confess to her weird crush.

2024 · Linux, PC, Mac

Aurelia is a nobody living out her life on a space station orbiting Earth, spending her days working in a junkyard, frequenting a bar, or retreating to her cabin. She will confront a life-altering decision that challenges her perception…

Badger Can Fly · 2024 · PC

a chronic illness simulation game. you think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. all you know is you are always in some state of pain. you've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life. how…

npckc · 2024 · Web, Linux, PC

"I’ll love you no matter how messed up you are..." A man has stalked you ever since you were a child. You call him Geist. You're not sure who...or what he is. When you befriend a new boy at college, Geist will do anything to keep you in…

Chattercap · 2024 · Linux, PC, Mac

アイドルプロデューサーとしてヰ世界情緒を育成する、アイドル育成ADVです。

Entergram · 2024 · PC

"Wound up? By any nori but me." A thrilling school life with 4 good-looking nori! Which "nori" will you "omusubi" with ......?

2024 · PC

Fashion police, open up! Collect clothes, put together fashionable outfits, and impress your captors — for a chance to regain access to the outside world!

KigyoDev · 2024 · Linux, PC, Mac

A Visual Novel of an investigating-dating idols: “When a new police officer has to go undercover as an 'idol group leader' to solve a case.”

Mini Gemini · PC

Play rock, paper, scissors to get off an alien space station. Esperanto: Vi devas ludi papero, tondilo, ŝtono por forlasi eksterteran kosmostacion.

2024 · Linux, PC

To the town in the hole... a story about a place where I can't go.

2024 · PC

A linear visual novel. ------ A quiet town awaits death. Stagnation is the default state of being. Two aimless young women fall in love.

Denhop · 2026 · Linux, PC, Mac

Heart Dungeon is a roguelite action game with visual novel elements that follows a boy called Leo who gets inside a video game that manifests elements of the psyche of whoever enters it. He will use this dimension to fight the illness…

Sanplus Games · 2026 · PC

A 2D runner shmup(shoot-em up) where you may or may not save a nation by beating a game. Shoot and dodge bullets while you keep running and jumping! Enjoy a story where you play the game made by Cci while Ayry and Cci banter with each…

Imaginary Traveller · 2025 · PC

A fantasy-themed otome visual novel with stat-building and mini-games.

Anigrams Productions · 2012 · Linux, PC, Mac

Your girlfriend's limited edition ice cream has been stolen! Was it you? Will you help her find it? All that is to be decided by 4 different endings.

2024 · Web, Linux, Android

(Neg)Entropic Wandering is a short visual novel for Insomniacs. Wander through the depths of space to empty your mind and finally get some sleep.

Ryan Nein · 2024 · Linux, PC

A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?

Tymedust Games · 2024 · Web, Linux, Android

Hundreds of years later, humans and Heflites coexist on a hidden planet near Earth. Finding a mate is the goal, but will something like that really help her break free from the deep darkness she experienced as a child? "...This…

Lucas Vacari Gomes · 2023 · Linux, PC, Mac

Explore an abandoned school where memories linger longer than the living. Uncover the mystery of your best friend’s disappearance. Dodge bullets.

visualmemoryunit_ · 2025 · PC

Help digital mascots Lime, Cherry, Plum and Lemon navigate their way through the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam competition. Laugh, learn, and scream(with excitement, we hope) through this visual novel and make choices to guide the girls to…

Remort Studios · 2024 · PC

This is a Yandere Yuri horror game where character sprites and still images move smoothly, created using Live2D and TyranoScript. If you enjoy Yandere Yuri horror filled with obsessive love, we highly recommend giving it a try.

2024 · PC