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.
星空列车与白的旅行
Linear visual novel about a strange journey aboard a starlit train
99% positive
6,426 reviews
Minds Beneath Us
Choice-driven sci-fi visual novel about sharing a stranger's body
96% positive
6,413 reviews
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Choice-driven visual novel about witches, divination cards, and coven politics
93% positive
6,407 reviews
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Linear visual novel about investigating paranormal urban legends
88% positive
6,319 reviews
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
A dad dating sim with seven neighbors to romance
92% positive
6,268 reviews
Emily is Away Too
Choice-driven chat sim about senior-year friendships and relationships
93% positive
6,244 reviews
Katawa Shoujo
Choice-driven romance visual novel with five character-focused story paths
98% positive
Free
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Multiplayer dating sim about romancing monsters at summer camp
96% positive
6,140 reviews
Fox Hime Zero
Romance visual novel about a student and mountain fox spirits
97% positive
6,009 reviews
The Thaumaturge
Isometric detective RPG in Warsaw with demons and turn-based combat
83% positive
5,969 reviews
Threefold Recital
Mystery visual novel where three heroes' stories converge
98% positive
5,791 reviews
I Wani Hug that Gator!
Choice-driven high school romance visual novel with four endings
98% positive
5,754 reviews
Persona 3 Portable
Story-rich school-year JRPG with turn-based combat and two protagonist routes
81% positive
5,748 reviews
Vampires' Melody
Branching vampire visual novel with choices and many endings
97% positive
5,731 reviews
Selene ~Apoptosis~
Free horror visual novel with dark romance and branching endings
88% positive
Free
SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS
3D anime ninja brawler with clothing damage during island battles
94% positive
5,510 reviews
私のリアルは充実しすぎている フルボイス版
School-set otome visual novel with choices and multiple endings
96% positive
5,489 reviews
Narcissu 1st & 2nd
Two-part visual novel about illness and facing death
96% positive
Free
Nunholy
Gothic action roguelike where armed nuns hunt vampires
89% positive
5,407 reviews
Scarlet Hollow
Branching horror visual novel about a supernatural mountain-town mystery
98% positive
5,305 reviews
eden*
Linear sci-fi romance visual novel set on a dying Earth
97% positive
5,267 reviews
MONMUSU
Free-to-play idle game about gathering materials to summon monster girls
80% positive
Free
Roadwarden
Text-based fantasy RPG about investigating a dangerous, isolated peninsula
94% positive
5,193 reviews
GNOSIA
Single-player sci-fi social deduction RPG built around repeating time loops
94% positive
5,147 reviews