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1The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Team Salvato · 2017 · Linux, Android, PC · 95/100
2Vanripper · 2020 · Linux, PC, Mac
3Semyon, a poster child contemporary chan culture consumer, falls asleep in the bus, only to wake up in front of the gates of Sovyonok, a pioneer camp of the late Soviet Russia. Everlasting Summer is a time-warping, mind-bending visual novel with some eroge content, produced by the collective…
Soviet Games · 2014 · Linux, Android, PC
4Sign In again. Remember a time before Facebook and Skype? When Windows XP was the next big thing and AIM was king. Relive that era with Emily Is Away, an interactive story. Create a screenname and browse buddy infos in this chat-bot meets adventure game. Explore your relationship with Emily, a…
Kyle Seeley · 2015 · Linux, PC, Mac
5‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A romance/horror story about life, death, and memes. A shift in perspective can change everything.
Angela He · 2019 · Web, Linux, PC
6Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
npckc · 2018 · Xbox Series, PS4, Linux
7Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
07th Expansion · 2015 · Linux, PC, Mac
8A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one-of-a-kind life. Our Life is a nostalgic visual novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
GB Patch Games · 2020 · Linux, Android, PC
9Fight against and romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a chat simulator visual novel where you date the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through fully voiced video calls.
Two and a Half Studios · 2023 · Linux, PC, Mac
10In this very short kinetic novel, you will play as Jung who's meeting up and hanging out with a girl named Ai. Spend your time wisely.
Moonlit Works · 2015 · Linux, PC, Mac
11Welcome to Moe Era, the era of cute things! It has everything but a hero to help four adorable girls. You're the one they're waiting for!
Comfy Company · 2020 · Linux, PC, Mac
12A romantic comedy visual novel centered around a girl named Mika Anderson, who gets entangled in the affairs of incubi.
Michaela Laws · 2015 · Linux, PC, Mac
13''Cinderella Phenomenon" is a visual novel game developed by Dicesuki. Players take on the role of Lucette, a princess who is cursed by a fairy godmother and must break the curse to find true love. The game features a variety of branching storylines and multiple endings, depending on the choices…
2017 · Linux, Android, PC
14USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Ferry Nopanamaman · 2025 · Linux, PC, Mac
15It's been a year since Semyon returned from "Sovyonok" and met the girls from the camp in the real world. But it's New Year at hand! And it needs to be celebrated! "Frosty Kiss" is a tiny piece of this holiday that will bring back the well-loved characters of the novel one more time, even if it…
2 Chance Projects · 2015 · Linux, PC
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17The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne is an interactive story about a painfully introverted college student who has to make oatmeal in the communal kitchen of her dorm. The gameplay will challenge you to find the right ways to help Samantha as she embarks on her journey to the other…
2016 · Linux, PC, Mac
18As Captain Kayto Shields, embark on a galactic voyage of heroism and survival. With his home world destroyed and his nation conquered, the inexperienced Captain Shields, and his newly minted vessel, the Sunrider, are left as the only hope against a galactic evil intent on subjugating all sentient…
Sekai Project · 2014 · Linux, PC, Mac
19A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where awful monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.
GB Patch Games · 2018 · Linux, PC, Mac
20A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel.
Jenny Vi Pham · 2022 · Linux, Android, PC
21One day, Ciaran Endyein reads a strange email, sent by an unkown person, who tells him to go to a certain park to retrive a certain object he bought. This little action will change his life in a romantic comedy, with a really deep physcological background. In the words of the mysterious Harry H…
Keinart Lobre · 2016 · Linux, PC, Mac
22A free game created by Ebi-Hime, author of Asphyxia, The Way We ALL GO, and Strawberry Vinegar. TSSofEB is a free yuri (girls' love) game created for a game jam. As the saying goes, dead men tell no tales. They only leave tales behind.
Ebi-Hime · 2016 · Linux, PC, Mac
23The naive but kind and determined Princess Ciel leaves her kingdom despite her overprotective father's wishes and goes on a journey with two knights, Florien and Anton. Along the way, they're stalked by a sassy vagrant named Yvin who tails them in order to bring Ciel back for reward money, but…
batensan · 2016 · Linux, PC, Mac
24The visual novel adaptation of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Experience the Manifesto in a conversational style for the first time and fully customize your reading.
Non Fiction Games · 2025 · Linux, PC, Mac · 60/100
25Between exams, friendships, and figuring out what a savings account is, college might just be one of the busiest times of your life. No one said adulthood was going to be easy, but it’ll be a little less painful to navigate with your two…
(BLANK) HOUSE · Linux, PC, Mac
26The Bugs Manor is a free 2D pixel art horror game. Explore a cursed mansion, hide from scary monsters, and solve puzzles with an inventory-free gameplay, focused on direct interactions with the environment. Can you survive your first…
Moonthsoft · 2026 · Linux, PC
27After suffering from amnesia, Kazu tries his best to regain his former self. Without his memories, he has trouble remembering close friends and family. With the help of old and new friends along the way, Kazu slowly goes on to his path…
GudeNeko · Linux, PC, Mac
28Witches x Warlocks is a cute and light-hearted Halloween Raising Sim Visual Novel; featuring a customizable protagonist and 4 love interests of different genders!
Nifty Visuals · 2020 · Linux, PC, Mac
29Set in regular modern-day life, you are the leader of a raiding guild in the world's hottest MMORPG, Emberfate, which has just released the new expansion, Tempest of Elements. Balance the intricacies of being a guild leader, ranging from…
Wind Chimes Games · 2023 · Linux, PC, Mac
30everyone's heard of mothman– the moth creature that haunts the outskirts of point pleasant, west virginia– but no one's heard of it like this! in some random idyllic midwestern town, you meet artemis (aka mothman) at your favorite coffee…
2022 · Xbox Series, Linux, PC
