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
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Demo Sanfu
2D mystery adventure tracing a strange television broadcast
83% positive
18K reviews
NEKOPARA Vol. 0
Short slice-of-life visual novel following catgirls through a household day
95% positive
17K reviews
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Episodic zombie adventure about family and difficult choices
83% positive
17K reviews
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Story-driven fantasy RPG with card battles and difficult decisions
88% positive
17K reviews
Demo Until Then
Pixel-art visual novel blending romance, mystery, and psychological drama
97% positive
17K reviews
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
Third-person shooter RPG with a custom avatar in Gun Gale Online
79% positive
17K reviews
Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy
Adult monochrome life sim RPG balancing guild work and family
73% positive
17K reviews
Demo Book of Yog Idle RPG
Idle action RPG with anime heroes, team building, and loot
78% positive
Free
Demo A Date with Death
Supernatural dating sim about bargaining with the Grim Reaper
98% positive
Free
Demo Murders on the Yangtze River
Side-scrolling detective adventure solving murders in early twentieth-century China
97% positive
16K reviews
Florence
Interactive romance built from everyday moments and simple puzzles
93% positive
16K reviews
Demo Batman - The Telltale Series
Choice-driven episodic adventure balancing Bruce Wayne and Batman
87% positive
16K reviews
Tales from the Borderlands
Episodic story adventure with choices and reluctant partners on Pandora
94% positive
16K reviews
Tales of the Black Forest
Pixel-art horror adventure about escaping a town through time travel
97% positive
16K reviews
Demo Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Choice-heavy visual novel about growing up with the boy next door
99% positive
Free
KinitoPET
Retro psychological horror with a virtual friend who disrupts your desktop
92% positive
15K reviews
Persona5: The Phantom X
Turn-based RPG balancing everyday school life with supernatural dungeon exploration
50% positive
Free
I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator
Culinary school dating visual novel with Colonel Sanders as a classmate
92% positive
Free
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
A visual novel about a missing girl in a Soviet city
98% positive
Free
Road to Empress I
Live-action historical adventure about surviving palace intrigue and pursuing power
88% positive
14K reviews
Detention
2D horror adventure about escaping a haunted school in Taiwan
83% positive
14K reviews
The Red Strings Club
Cyberpunk narrative adventure with mood-shifting cocktails and phone impersonation
93% positive
14K reviews
Demo Monster Prom
Competitive dating sim where monsters race to find prom dates
93% positive
13K reviews
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
First-person cosmic horror drawn from a Lovecraft short story
95% positive
Free