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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HoloTrials: Case Covered
A school mystery visual novel built around evidence and trials
99% positive
Free
Demo XOXO Droplets
A dating sim balancing boarding school romance with social obligations
74% positive
Free
Hello Lady! - Complete Edition
Academy-set fantasy visual novel with romance and multiple endings
86% positive
432 reviews
Starlight Revolver
Anime action RPG with roguelite runs and city downtime
61% positive
431 reviews
Zavod
A sci-fi visual novel about a factory worker's second youth
91% positive
431 reviews
Demo 【SCP】器関ノ彷徨 -The will of a single Tale-【DEMOver.】
A free horror visual novel about an SCP containment breach
88% positive
Free
Cemetery Mary
A branching visual novel about missing parents and murder rumors
97% positive
Free
AMANATSU ~Perfect Edition~
Summer romance visual novel with choices and three classmates
94% positive
429 reviews
Night Call
Noir visual novel about a taxi driver tracking a killer
76% positive
428 reviews
Regeria Hope Episode 1
Courtroom visual novel where you can deliberately lose your case
82% positive
Free
Maitetsu
A railway visual novel about reviving a declining hometown
95% positive
427 reviews
CLANNAD Side Stories
Linear visual novel side stories told through different character perspectives
88% positive
422 reviews
Catgirls From My Sweet Dream
Match-three puzzles and an adult visual novel about dating catgirls
89% positive
422 reviews
Demo Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
Noir detective adventure uncovering a conspiracy in an insect underworld
81% positive
422 reviews
NALOGI 2
Satirical anime RPG with turn-based battles and an elected emperor
75% positive
421 reviews
Our world has not decayed
A post-apocalyptic visual novel about traveling with a zombie girl
86% positive
421 reviews
花恋月依
A romance visual novel about two women confronting their past
91% positive
421 reviews
OneRoom ―Yui Hanasaka Memorial―
Animated romance visual novel with a heroine’s added inner monologues
91% positive
420 reviews
Steam Prison
Steampunk romance visual novel about exile and a divided society
82% positive
418 reviews
The Witch's Bakery
A narrative adventure RPG about baking bread to heal hearts
91% positive
418 reviews
狂想！夏日盛宴
Live-action dating comedy built around a chaotic seaside summer job
95% positive
418 reviews
Demo Sound of Drop - fall into poison -
Horror visual novel about an aquarium where urban legends turn real
85% positive
417 reviews
Kanon
Choice-driven romance visual novel about small miracles in a northern town
98% positive
417 reviews
Demo Time Space Rebuild
FMV romance adventure with branching choices across different eras
78% positive
417 reviews