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
3,858 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
3,858 games
AI filter: hide games with AI content
Customize
UNBEATABLE
A rhythm adventure mixing two-button performances with exploration and conversation
92% positive
6,993 reviews
Katawa Shoujo
Choice-driven romance visual novel with five character-focused story paths
97% positive
Free
Yokai's Secret
Adult-themed color sorting puzzles with animated yokai characters
90% positive
6,898 reviews
Demo Tangle Tower
Point-and-click detective adventure about a murder in a strange mansion
95% positive
6,897 reviews
Emily is Away <3
Choice-driven visual novel about teenage relationships on a 2008 social network
92% positive
6,873 reviews
YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
School romance visual novel with branching paths and psychological horror
94% positive
6,806 reviews
Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™
Choice-driven dating sim about romancing killers on a strange island
90% positive
6,802 reviews
Banner of the Maid
Turn-based tactical RPG with French Revolution battles and political intrigue
85% positive
6,794 reviews
Demo Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Mystery puzzle adventure about a ghost solving his own murder
97% positive
6,727 reviews
Demo Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
Branching mystery visual novel about a supposed paradise's dark side
96% positive
6,674 reviews
The House in Fata Morgana
Gothic visual novel tracing tragedies across a mysterious mansion's past
94% positive
6,673 reviews
ヘブンバーンズレッド
A story-driven RPG about girls fighting creatures that overrun Earth
67% positive
Free
NEKOPARA - Catboys Paradise
A café-set visual novel following four humanoid cat trainees
89% positive
Free
Demo 星空列车与白的旅行
Linear visual novel about a strange journey aboard a starlit train
98% positive
6,451 reviews
PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Supernatural horror visual novel about investigating deadly urban legends
95% positive
6,446 reviews
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
A psychological horror questionnaire where your choices lead to different endings
98% positive
6,410 reviews
Demo Five Hearts Under One Roof
First-person live-action dating sim with branching boarding house romances
91% positive
6,319 reviews
AI
School Days
School-life sim with time management and branching relationship stories
77% positive
6,316 reviews
Riddle Joker
Romance visual novel about a secret agent at a psychic academy
98% positive
6,307 reviews
Fox Hime Zero
Romance visual novel about a student and mountain fox spirits
97% positive
6,300 reviews
ERROR143
A short dating sim with hacker rivalry and verbal sparring
93% positive
Free
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Point-and-click adventure about choices and cathedral building in medieval England
92% positive
6,246 reviews
Demo Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Linear visual novel about investigating paranormal urban legends
88% positive
6,227 reviews
Long Live The Queen
Political visual novel about keeping a young princess alive until coronation
95% positive
6,193 reviews