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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Demo The Isle Tide Hotel
Live-action detective adventure about infiltrating a cult to rescue your daughter
63% positive
257 reviews
My Life as a Cult Leader
Adult visual novel about replacing a cult's dying leader
79% positive
257 reviews
Demo The Apocalypse Sacrifice
A retro adventure with branching choices and a personality chart
96% positive
257 reviews
Blossoms Bloom Brightest
Science-fiction visual novel about romance between women aboard a spaceship
70% positive
Free
Demo Koi Musubi
A romance visual novel about childhood friends and long-distance relationships
91% positive
256 reviews
Memories Off
High school romance visual novel with choices and multiple endings
92% positive
256 reviews
Demo Trap Yuri Garden
Romance visual novel set at a school where cross-dressing is expected
93% positive
256 reviews
Just Deserts
Military dating sim with turn-based battles against invading aliens
80% positive
255 reviews
be you
A visual novel where your choices shape the protagonist's personality
81% positive
Free
Madohi Shiroki no Kamikakushi
An anime-style visual novel mixing fantasy romance with comedy
95% positive
255 reviews
Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Mystery visual novel about supernatural incidents in a sealed village
93% positive
255 reviews
Survive or Thrive
A survival questionnaire that matches your choices to hypothetical scenarios
98% positive
254 reviews
Demo Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
A visual novel where you glimpse the consequences before choosing
70% positive
254 reviews
1997
Detective visual novel about teenagers and a supposedly cursed lake
93% positive
254 reviews
Rainswept
A detective adventure tracing a couple's deaths and an investigator's past
85% positive
253 reviews
Mycopsychosys: Remastered
Horror visual novel about choosing whom to shelter during a sporestorm
97% positive
253 reviews
Legends of Talia: Arcadia
Fantasy visual novel following a knight haunted by past failures
78% positive
252 reviews
그랑 엠파이어
A fantasy strategy visual novel about ruling and romance
92% positive
Free
精神病大王花 Flowering Abyss
Horror romance visual novel about love, obsession, and destructive relationships
84% positive
252 reviews
Games&Girls
Anime visual novel about a gamer and a mysterious girl
77% positive
251 reviews
Cross Maid
A romantic visual novel built around a case of mistaken gender
94% positive
251 reviews
ABYSS OF THE SACRIFICE
Escape-room visual novel about five survivors in an underground city
82% positive
250 reviews
Survivor Dieland
A survival quiz exploring zombies, killers, and other hypothetical threats
96% positive
250 reviews
Lily's Day Off
Choice-driven visual novel where decisions rewrite personalities and character histories
87% positive
249 reviews