Best Visual Novel games on PC
Story-focused games presented mainly through text, dialogue, and character artwork. Players read through scenes and may make choices that change the story, relationships, or ending.
- Dialogue and narrative-driven scenes
- Occasional story choices
- Branching routes and endings
Related: Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Anime
3,648 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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One's Own Exile
A narrative adventure about hiding your identity to escape persecution
100% positive
Free
If My Heart Had Wings -Flight Diary-
A romance visual novel continuing a gliding club's story
95% positive
515 reviews
Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star
A holiday visual novel with bird romance and surreal side stories
95% positive
514 reviews
Ballads at Midnight
A romance visual novel about a bard and bored vampire
94% positive
Free
Such a guy
Live-action dating sim about romance and running a seaside guesthouse
95% positive
513 reviews
STAY
Chat-based psychological adventure about helping a trapped stranger escape
66% positive
512 reviews
Secret Little Haven
A coming-of-age adventure played through a simulated late-nineties computer
98% positive
512 reviews
雾之本境S Conspiracy Field: Fog Shadow
A mystery visual novel about murder at a fogbound school
57% positive
512 reviews
Sakura Santa
A romantic visual novel about finding company for Christmas
88% positive
510 reviews
夏末白夜
Visual novel mystery about a high school rumor of August 32
95% positive
510 reviews
KAMITSUBAKI CITY REGENERATE
Dark fantasy visual novel where choices decide a city's fate
93% positive
509 reviews
Cabin Fever
Romantic visual novel about an injured stranger at your mountain home
95% positive
508 reviews
Demo MAMIYA
A psychological horror visual novel about a predicted apocalypse
91% positive
508 reviews
Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno
A horror visual novel about cats, dogs, and deadly choices
100% positive
508 reviews
Yuki「清醒梦」
Horror adventure combining bullet hell battles and conversations with spirits
98% positive
Free
Ghostwire: Tokyo - Prelude
A free visual novel following a team of supernatural detectives
61% positive
Free
Long Gone Days
A military JRPG about human connections across language barriers
88% positive
505 reviews
Clam Man 2: Open Mic
A combat-free comedy RPG where quests become material for stand-up
97% positive
Free
Prisoner of the Ephemeral Kingdom
A horror visual novel about strangers trapped in a ritual
78% positive
505 reviews
Demo Seedsow Lullaby
A time-travel visual novel about three generations of one family
96% positive
503 reviews
LipTrip ~My Boss Is My Heat Suppressant?!~
A visual novel about an office romance between two women
81% positive
503 reviews
Dissolving
Horror visual novel with story clues extending beyond the game
88% positive
Free
Demo TOUQI
A psychological horror visual novel with detective and word-game elements
89% positive
502 reviews
Demo From Madness with Love
A school dating sim that mixes romance with psychological horror
90% positive
497 reviews