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.
Lost
Adult puzzle game with scene interactions that unlock animations
81% positive
7,659 reviews
Blush Blush
Idle dating sim about romancing anime men to break curses
86% positive
Free
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Point-and-click adventure about choices and cathedral building in medieval England
92% positive
7,607 reviews
Hatoful Boyfriend
Bird dating visual novel with branching school romances and secrets
94% positive
7,582 reviews
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Story-driven visual novel pairing deadly choices with escape-room puzzles
93% positive
7,409 reviews
PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Supernatural horror visual novel about investigating deadly urban legends
95% positive
7,278 reviews
Long Live The Queen
Political visual novel about keeping a young princess alive until coronation
95% positive
7,168 reviews
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
Choice-driven visual novel about romance and intrigue in 1980s Japan
79% positive
7,152 reviews
YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
School romance visual novel with branching paths and psychological horror
95% positive
7,074 reviews
Riddle Joker
Romance visual novel about a secret agent at a psychic academy
98% positive
7,050 reviews
Fate/Samurai Remnant
Action RPG in Edo with summoned spirits and rival Masters
91% positive
7,047 reviews
Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
Branching mystery visual novel about a supposed paradise's dark side
95% positive
7,042 reviews
1000xRESIST
Sci-fi adventure about a clone uncovering secrets through memories
94% positive
7,033 reviews
Café Stella and the Reaper's Butterflies
Romance visual novel mixing café life with supernatural mystery
98% positive
6,949 reviews
Five Hearts Under One Roof
First-person live-action dating sim with branching boarding house romances
91% positive
6,938 reviews
Yokai's Secret
Adult-themed color sorting puzzles with animated yokai characters
90% positive
6,898 reviews
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Linear mystery visual novel about deaths in a rural village
96% positive
Free
SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris
Anime action RPG with sword skills in Underworld
61% positive
6,834 reviews
Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™
Choice-driven dating sim about romancing killers on a strange island
90% positive
6,815 reviews
Tangle Tower
Point-and-click detective adventure about a murder in a strange mansion
95% positive
6,804 reviews
Emily is Away <3
Choice-driven visual novel about teenage relationships on a 2008 social network
91% positive
6,803 reviews
The House in Fata Morgana
Gothic visual novel tracing tragedies across a mysterious mansion's past
95% positive
6,726 reviews
Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue
Anime-style romance visual novel built around a fictional flying sport
97% positive
6,592 reviews
Super Robot Wars 30
Turn-based tactical RPG crossing over robots from many mecha anime
86% positive
6,508 reviews