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
691 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Tomorrow's Love Puzzle
First-person live-action dating sim with six romance paths
70% positive
1,195 reviews
Love n Life: Lucky Teacher
Adult dating sim about a small-town teacher building relationships
90% positive
1,193 reviews
Chicken Hill
Hidden-object search for chickens to rescue brother KUN
99% positive
1,189 reviews
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi
Psychological horror visual novel revisiting a deadly village mystery
98% positive
1,178 reviews
The Bible
Digital Bible reader with multiple translations and trivia quizzes
87% positive
1,176 reviews
蓝宝石般的被害妄想少女/Damsel with persecutory delusion
Detective visual novel about solving cases through clues and deduction
89% positive
1,174 reviews
DOTOKOI / 像素男友
Choice-driven romance visual novel where love interests become clearer
99% positive
Free
Enjoy the Diner
Short narrative adventure with choices in an eternal diner
97% positive
1,167 reviews
Through the Darkest of Times
Historical strategy game about organizing covert resistance in Nazi Berlin
84% positive
1,163 reviews
Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink
Steampunk hidden-object adventure tracking a scientist after strange earthquakes
92% positive
1,161 reviews
Natsu no Sagashimono ~What We Found That Summer~
Pixel-art summer RPG about collecting and getting to know townspeople
88% positive
1,156 reviews
Paper Bride 2 Zangling Village
Chinese folklore horror puzzle game set in a haunted village
91% positive
1,148 reviews
Summer~Life in the Countryside~
Pixel-art dating sim about a summer with a childhood friend
72% positive
1,143 reviews
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Prophecy of the Throne
Fantasy visual novel with tactical sections and a sixth throne claimant
87% positive
1,137 reviews
反转21克
First-person FMV mystery where your choices shape multiple endings
72% positive
1,129 reviews
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Lost girl`s [diary]
Short horror visual novel about a Christmas scary story contest
82% positive
Free
The Fruit of Grisaia
Visual novel with romance and multiple endings at a secluded academy
92% positive
1,120 reviews
Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms
Historical romance visual novel with branching routes and multiple endings
96% positive
1,117 reviews
SeaBed
Psychological mystery visual novel tracing love through fractured memories
97% positive
1,116 reviews
Amairo Chocolate
Café romance visual novel with animal-eared girls and story routes
98% positive
1,076 reviews
Sakura no Mori † Dreamers
Psychological horror visual novel about murders and supernatural sightings
92% positive
1,073 reviews
The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki -Farewell, O Zemuria-
Story-driven party RPG with returning characters and shifting combat
78% positive
1,059 reviews
BUSTAFELLOWS
Romance visual novel about a time-jumping journalist solving mysteries
86% positive
1,042 reviews
Lucid9: Inciting Incident
Choice-driven mystery visual novel about murders at a school
90% positive
Free