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
3,861 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Until Oblivion
Psychological horror adventure with time loops and a troubled teenage relationship
97% positive
Free
Demo Return to Ash
A visual novel about bonds and trials in the afterlife
99% positive
137 reviews
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The Test: Reimagined
A personality-test game combining psychological horror with tarot-style card readings
82% positive
137 reviews
Lost in the Woods
Psychological horror exploration with creatures drawn from Nordic folklore
96% positive
Free
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Pursuing My Uncle
A choice-driven visual novel with a pursuit button you cannot skip
88% positive
137 reviews
The Adventure of Magical Girl
A fantasy JRPG about magic students and wandering mercenaries
85% positive
136 reviews
Morok
A dark visual novel where strangers already know who you are
82% positive
Free
The Backrooms
First-person survival horror with a camcorder in an office maze
65% positive
136 reviews
Demo Kamifuda
A card battler and visual novel set at an eldritch university
88% positive
136 reviews
First Snow
A fully voiced romance visual novel with multiple endings
93% positive
136 reviews
A Hint of Purple
Short visual novel about queer love, art, and paralysis
94% positive
Free
Arima Lodge
Short interactive fiction set entirely inside a hotel elevator
88% positive
Free
Demo AI
Beauties and the Stranded
First-person dating sim with live actors and a bunker mystery
76% positive
136 reviews
boyfriend or cake??
A dating-show visual novel where the contestants might be cake
95% positive
Free
Palais de Reine
Medieval romance simulation with a year to earn the throne
83% positive
135 reviews
Familiar Travels - Volume One
Open-world visual novel about relationships at a magical graduate school
87% positive
Free
Aimi
Short psychological horror with a story shaped by your choices
82% positive
Free
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非常规放送部 Mika & Luna
A comedy visual novel about producing a channel for demons
91% positive
Free
Machina of the Planet Tree -Planet Ruler-
Party-based fantasy RPG with turn-based battles built around attack combos
82% positive
134 reviews
Demo SOULS
A psychological visual novel about a boy's relationship with a monster
90% positive
134 reviews
Gachimuchi
A fantasy visual novel combining moral choices with seven minigames
57% positive
134 reviews
Demon Hunter 4: Riddles of Light
A hidden-object adventure through ancient ruins ruled by Egyptian gods
64% positive
134 reviews
Supipara - Chapter 2 Spring Has Come!
A school-life visual novel with a witch among your classmates
99% positive
134 reviews
Demo Don't Forget Our Esports Dream
A visual novel about life in South Korean esports
93% positive
Free