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.
Iwaihime
Supernatural horror visual novel about curses and their consequences
78% positive
916 reviews
WHITE ALBUM: Memories like Falling Snow
Choice-driven romance visual novel with multiple relationship paths and endings
93% positive
905 reviews
Regency Solitaire
Solitaire card puzzles tied to a Regency England romance
95% positive
899 reviews
AIR
Choice-driven visual novel about family bonds and multiple endings
98% positive
897 reviews
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi
A sound novel finale confronting a village's recurring tragedies
95% positive
892 reviews
Wolfstride
Turn-based mecha RPG mixing arena battles with city errands
89% positive
886 reviews
Kinkoi: Golden Time
Romance visual novel continues an academy story with new routes
98% positive
886 reviews
Pixel Cafe
Pixel-art time-management game blending cafe shifts with visual-novel storytelling
92% positive
885 reviews
FAKEBOOK
Point-and-click mystery investigating secrets across a virtual social network
91% positive
863 reviews
The Symbiant
Sci-fi visual novel about romance with a mysterious alien passenger
96% positive
858 reviews
Draw
Side-scrolling puzzle platformer with mouse-drawn objects and a grief story
96% positive
Free
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf HD Remastered
Illustrated fantasy gamebook RPG with choices and turn-based battles
75% positive
840 reviews
Taimanin Collection: Battle Arena
Casual adult card collector with daily minigames and gacha
70% positive
Free
Sunrider: Liberation Day - Captain's Edition
Turn-based space tactics with mecha squads and anime-style storytelling
83% positive
819 reviews
Grim Legends 3: The Dark City
Hidden-object adventure with monster hunting in a gothic city
93% positive
817 reviews
Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp
Board-game RPG with crossover characters at a tropical summer camp
62% positive
815 reviews
Heaven Will Be Mine
Sci-fi visual novel about mecha pilots choosing love or loyalty
92% positive
805 reviews
Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World-
Romance visual novel linking three stories to one mystery
88% positive
803 reviews
Rewrite+
Choice-driven visual novel about classmates investigating occult rumors
95% positive
793 reviews
Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten
Party-based fantasy JRPG about searching for a supposedly dead father
81% positive
793 reviews
Eiyu*Senki – The World Conquest
Turn-based strategy with historical heroes and a world conquest story
89% positive
783 reviews
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
Horror mystery visual novel that revisits earlier chapters' unanswered questions
97% positive
783 reviews
Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology Project
A visual novel anthology about patients facing illness and death
97% positive
782 reviews
Select Oblige
Romance visual novel with choices across four heroine routes
74% positive
781 reviews