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.
Criminal Girls: Invite Only
Anime dungeon crawler guiding seven girls up hell's spire
77% positive
651 reviews
Paper Bride 4 Bound Love
Chinese folklore horror game about solving Yichang Town's mysteries
78% positive
651 reviews
The Coma 2B: Catacomb
2D survival horror with puzzles and a pursuing killer
75% positive
640 reviews
Puff Love Story
Short romance visual novel about a baker and cream puffs
95% positive
636 reviews
The Bad Kids
Psychological horror adventure about a student investigating unsettling mysteries
76% positive
633 reviews
Leila
Hand-drawn point-and-click adventure tracing one woman's life through puzzles
87% positive
630 reviews
Sonicomi
Visual novel and photography game about shaping a model's future
90% positive
626 reviews
AI Roguelite
Text-based RPG where AI builds worlds from your prompts
83% positive
625 reviews
TAISHO x ALICE epilogue
Fairy-tale romance visual novel where choices shape Alice's ending
92% positive
623 reviews
Sunset Hills
Hand-drawn puzzle adventure about a train journey and postwar reunions
63% positive
618 reviews
Loren The Amazon Princess
Fantasy RPG with turn-based battles and choices shaping relationships
82% positive
617 reviews
Girls of The Tower
Roguelike auto-battler with minion cards, formations, and town upgrades
86% positive
617 reviews
The logic of the miniature garden
Mystery visual novel about campus disappearances and branching choices
87% positive
615 reviews
A Case of Distrust
Narrative detective adventure about catching lies in 1924 San Francisco
82% positive
613 reviews
Dungeon's Legion
Dungeon-defense RPG about building a monster army against adventurers
88% positive
613 reviews
A Night Filled With the Sound of Rain
Rainy-night visual novel where cocktail choices steer a conversation
91% positive
612 reviews
Princess Maker 5
Parenting sim about raising a princess candidate in modern times
66% positive
610 reviews
Panic Room: House of secrets
Free-to-play hidden-object mystery about escaping a puzzle-filled mansion
60% positive
Free
Monobeno-HAPPY END- Deluxe
A visual novel about a sister's transformation in a supernatural village
92% positive
599 reviews
Mary Skelter: Nightmares
First-person dungeon crawler with fairy-tale heroines and pursuing monsters
83% positive
594 reviews
LumineNight
1950s detective adventure tracing a decade of unsolved murders
89% positive
592 reviews
Paradise
Dark romance visual novel about a deadly island mystery
91% positive
589 reviews
Rising Angels: Reborn
Sci-fi visual novel about a ship crew seeking missing researchers
81% positive
Free
Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou 2
Romance visual novel with four heroine routes shaped by choices
97% positive
570 reviews