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.
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Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition
Anime action RPG with large parties and MMO-style raid bosses
78% positive
6,157 reviews
Seek Girl
A casual whack-a-mole game that unlocks sexualized anime artwork
78% positive
Free
Vampires' Melody
Branching vampire visual novel with choices and many endings
97% positive
6,142 reviews
Narcissu 1st & 2nd
Two-part visual novel about illness and facing death
96% positive
Free
Emily is Away Too
Choice-driven chat sim about senior-year friendships and relationships
94% positive
6,130 reviews
Café Stella and the Reaper's Butterflies
Romance visual novel mixing café life with supernatural mystery
97% positive
6,069 reviews
Minds Beneath Us
Choice-driven sci-fi visual novel about sharing a stranger's body
96% positive
5,996 reviews
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
A dad dating sim with seven neighbors to romance
92% positive
5,932 reviews
Morimens
Roguelite card battler with turn-based combat and cosmic horror
80% positive
Free
Demo The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Choice-driven visual novel about witches, divination cards, and coven politics
93% positive
5,871 reviews
The Test: Final Revelation
A psychological horror quiz built around increasingly personal questions
98% positive
5,831 reviews
Super Robot Wars 30
Turn-based tactical RPG crossing over robots from many mecha anime
85% positive
5,826 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
5,793 reviews
Mandate Of Heaven
Live-action political drama with choices between ambition and personal loyalties
91% positive
5,789 reviews
Reverse: 1999
Turn-based card RPG about rescuing spellcasters across a reversing timeline
93% positive
Free
Moe Era
Free anime visual novel with choices leading to different endings
88% positive
Free
Demo Sora no Kiseki the 1st
Story-driven JRPG combining real-time field action with turn-based party battles
97% positive
5,637 reviews
枝江往事
A visual novel following five virtual idols through branching stories
97% positive
Free
SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS
3D anime ninja brawler with clothing damage during island battles
94% positive
5,529 reviews
Demo I Wani Hug that Gator!
Choice-driven high school romance visual novel with four endings
99% positive
5,522 reviews
1000xRESIST
Sci-fi adventure about a clone uncovering secrets through memories
96% positive
5,520 reviews
PRICE
Point-and-click horror puzzles built around a musician's search for his sister
94% positive
Free
Purrgatory
A visual novel about afterlife friendships and cat puns
99% positive
Free
Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue
Anime-style romance visual novel built around a fictional flying sport
97% positive
5,487 reviews