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
3,858 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution
Party-based action RPG about rebuilding a struggling game studio
74% positive
114 reviews
Demo ENIGMA:
Mystery visual novel connecting an unexplained illness and a white forest
95% positive
113 reviews
Embers of Magic
A fantasy visual novel following a witch down to Earth
84% positive
Free
Across the Grooves
A visual novel about rewriting the past through a record
92% positive
113 reviews
Demo 我在终点线等你
School-life visual novel about a teenager pursuing his racing ambitions
89% positive
113 reviews
The Communist Manifesto ~ A Visual Novel
A free visual novel adapting the political writing of Marx and Engels
88% positive
Free
Dream Catcher
A casual Minesweeper-style puzzle game with animated anime characters
54% positive
112 reviews
Sakura Succubus 5
Anime romance visual novel with succubi and a European princess
93% positive
112 reviews
白晓
A school visual novel about friendship and mysterious campus legends
96% positive
Free
Loop8: Summer of Gods
A time-looping JRPG where relationships shape battles against supernatural enemies
46% positive
112 reviews
Demo Blood Lily Ghoststories
Horror visual novel that illustrates its ghost stories with silhouettes
92% positive
112 reviews
Anamnesia - part 1: am i my body?
Sci-fi visual novel about nine captives in a deadly contest
95% positive
Free
The Restless Sheep & The Lone Wolf -A Tale of Cutthroat Lovers-
Crime romance visual novel about a hitman who kills to sleep
84% positive
112 reviews
obi3011-prologue
A cyberpunk visual novel about romancing a canine companion
92% positive
Free
• Dread Chess ✣
A chess puzzle adventure built around matches that play themselves
77% positive
Free
ECHOES
Short post-apocalyptic adventure built around deciphering an android's broken language
98% positive
Free
ESC
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams
98% positive
111 reviews
安堂的心理咨询室：杯中之心〈ANDOU：Pulse of cup〉
A visual novel about a counseling machine and its clients
81% positive
Free
Stories of Mara
A slice-of-life visual novel about neighbors in a tropical fantasy world
82% positive
Free
Sigh of the Abyss: Shadow Bonds
A fantasy visual novel with dark powers and optional romance
94% positive
Free
浮游
A narrative puzzle game inside a surreal, locked family home
86% positive
111 reviews
Liminal Border Part I
A visual novel about classmates running a digital hypnotism business
93% positive
111 reviews
Midnight Syndrome
A horror adventure following a late-night ritual at school
99% positive
Free
AQUAPAZZA: Aquaplus Dream Match
A 2D crossover fighter with characters from AQUAPLUS games
31% positive
111 reviews