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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
5Honkai Impact 3rd follows Valkyries as they defend the world from Honkai, the “mysterious power responsible for destroying human civilization countless times.”
HoYoverse · 2016 · Android, PC, iOS
6A brand new Sonic experience from the minds of the Sonic Social team: The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is a visual novel, point-and-click adventure! It's Amy Rose's birthday and she's hosting a murder mystery party on the Mirage Express. When Sonic becomes the game's victim, everyone is off to get…
Sega · 2023 · PC, Mac
7Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a truly daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Bit Golem · 2021 · PC, SteamVR
8‘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
9Join KK and his gang of supernatural detectives as they investigate a strange disappearance, only to stumble upon something more sinister. A visual novel prequel to Ghostwire: Tokyo.
Tango Gameworks · 2022 · PS4, PC, PS5
10Punishing: Gray Raven's story takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. The discovery of "Fusion Technology" lead humanity into a rapid Golden Age of scientific development. However, due to humanity's ambitious nature and curiosity, their push into the taboos of fundemental science ultimately…
Kuro Games · 2019 · Android, PC, iOS
11Haru 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
12Limbus Company is a darkly stylish turn-based strategy RPG from Project Moon, set in the same universe as Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina. As the Manager of Limbus Company, you must command a crew of twelve "Sinners"—distorted individuals based on classic literature—aboard the…
Project Moon · 2023 · Android, PC, iOS
13Higurashi 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
14A 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
15Fight 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
16In 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
17A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town.
Mojiken Studio · 2018 · PC, Mac
18From the same people who brought you the bucket of chicken, comes the world’s first Colonel Sanders dating simulator. I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator follows you, a promising culinary student, as you try to date your classmate, Colonel Sanders. Throughout your…
Psyop · 2019 · PC, Mac
19Welcome 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
20The anonymous protagonist is diagnosed with lung cancer shortly after his twentieth birthday, and is admitted to hospice care at a hospital in Mito, Ibaraki. There he meets Setsumi, a woman who is two years older than he is, who is also terminally ill. Finding that they both refuse to die in the…
stage-nana · 2005 · PC
21A 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
22''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
23Heaven Burns Red is the story of a group of girls pinned as the world’s last hope, written by Key’s Jun Maeda. Run around fields and experience a priceless everyday life while fighting to survive in this dramatic RPG!
Wright Flyer Studios · 2022 · Android, PC, iOS
24USSR, 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
25vivid/stasis is a rhythm-mystery game that follows the fate and feelings of a group of girls as they get wrapped up in a mind-bending adventure involving organizations, mysterious disappearances, and the fourth dimension. The game ties together an immense and interweaving storyline with varying…
Hajimeli · 2025 · PC
26Walter Martins is not among us anymore. What happened was broadcast live… so why can’t anyone agree on what happened exactly? Investigate Walter’s mysterious last show. Interview his wife. Inspect his apartment. Find out the truth.
Monumental Collab · 2023 · PC, Mac
27It'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
28The English Protection Group keep a watchful eye on the Smuggler's Run, a renowned crossing for vessels bound from Calais containing illegal immigrants. When faced with an armed man, his voracious appetite for conversation, and nobody else for miles, can you safely get rid of him? This is a…
Far Few Giants · 2020 · PC, Mac
29Reconnect with your mother’s culture through food while navigating a train that goes deeper and deeper in time.
Sondering Studios · 2022 · PC
30A love-and-hate bromance exploration horror ADV that depicts the codependency and perverted love between two men.
viv · 2024 · PC, Mac
