Visual novel for Linux — top best games in the Visual novel genre / Page 4

Corpse Party - a game in the Visual novel genre

Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This horror adventure with visual-novel elements follows a group of students trapped in an otherworldly version of an abandoned elementary school...

To the Edge of the Sky

Futurism (Future), Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Arcade, Cyberpunk, Adult game, Action

Game released: Linux → 29 May 2020

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 60/100

To the Edge of the Sky is an adventure visual novel with role-playing elements in a cyberpunk setting. The events of the game will take you to 2077...

Our Life: Beginnings and Always

Visual novel, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Free game, Indie, Replayability

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2020

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 98/100

Our Life: Beginnings and Always is a visual novel where you can create and fully customize your character from the very beginning. With him you will...

Monster Prom

Adventure, Simulation, Business / Management, Visual novel, Comedy, Online

Game released: Linux → 27 April 2018

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Monster Prom is a multiplayer visual novel with dating simulator elements, designed for four players. The game takes place in a high school for...

Idol Manager

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Music game, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 27 July 2021

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Idol Manager is a cute management simulator with visual novel elements in anime style. You will take on the role of manager in a small (but growing...

Discouraged Workers

Anime / Manga, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2015

Steam: 61/100

This kinetic visual novel, the fifth episode in the Project DW series, follows Ga-yeon, a former hospital coordinator who withdraws from society...

Being a DIK - Season 1

Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2020

Steam: 96/100

This visual novel follows a freshman who leaves home for college and joins the Delta Iota Kappa fraternity. His new life brings him into contact with...

Sakura Fox Adventure

Simulation, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2019

Steam: 88/100

A visual novel about Mikoto, a foxgirl and heir to the Yamatai clan, who runs away to a festival in a human village and falls in love with the knight...

Kill or Love

Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2020

Steam: 89/100

This visual novel follows Jack, who wakes up in a hospital with no memories of his childhood after a near-fatal injury, while his girlfriend is held...

Mister Versatile: A Gay Superhero Visual Novel

Visual novel, Action, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2020

Steam: 89/100

A superhero visual novel about Mister Versatile, a lone wolf whose headquarters is attacked by villains. In the aftermath, he must decide whether to...

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2017

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is a visual novel adventure based on the classic historical novel The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. The...

Never Forget Me

Simulation, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2016

Steam: 57/100

Never Forget Me is an adventure novel with elements of a Japanese-style dating simulator. The game continues the story of “Always Remember Me”, where...

Deep Sky Derelicts

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Visual novel, Side view, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2018

Players: 9/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Deep Sky Derelicts is a side-scrolling sci-fi turn-based game with visual novel elements. You will go to conquer a dark future, where humanity is...

The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World

Arcade, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 7 September 2018

Steam: 95/100

The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World is an unusual visual novel in which a pizza delivery boy saves the world at his leisure. The plot will...

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 91/100

A mixture of horror and dating simulator about a princess imprisoned in a basement. Usually such stories end with the girl being saved, but this time...

Chernobyl: Origins

Adventure, Survival horror, Exploration, Visual novel, Survival, Horror

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2023

Players: 7/10

Steam: 85/100

The events of the game take place in 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The main character is a scientist from a secret laboratory located in...

Альтушка для скуфа: Ещё, ещё!

DLC, Visual novel, Casual game, Indie, Anime / Manga, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 24 July 2024

Players: 7.5/10

The add-on includes three new altushkas with the voices of Alina Rin, Albina Seksova and Persona 99, nine new endings, mini-games that are “not what...

Universe For Sale

Puzzle, Adventure, Exploration, Science fiction, Indie, Comics, Point & Click, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2023

Steam: 91/100

A hand-drawn adventure set on an empty space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. You need to meet unusual local residents and reveal their...

Depraved Awakening

Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 August 2019

Steam: 91/100

This adult detective visual novel follows a private eye in Free City whose client is found dead. The police believe it was suicide, but as the...

Blooming Nightshade

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 September 2019

Steam: 84/100

This romantic visual novel follows Himeka Uchida, who decides to look for a girlfriend after several couples form at her school. At Solana Academy...

The Climate Trail

Free game, Adventure, Visual novel, Action

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2019

Players: 4.3/10

Steam: 68/100

The Climate Trail is a free-to-play visual novel adventure that explores what will happen to our planet if it continues to warm. As you progress, you...

For the People

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Strategy, Adventure, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 73/100

For the People is a political simulator with management elements and a first-person view. In the game you will try on the role of the head of a small...

Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp

Simulation, Adventure, Visual novel, Business / Management, Indie, Online, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2020

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp is a sequel to the online dating simulator, this time moving to a new location — a summer camp. The formula of the...

Legends of Talia: Arcadia

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Fantasy / Medieval, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 27 October 2017

Steam: 76/100

Legends of Talia: Arcadia is an adventure visual novel with elements of a dating simulator. The game will tell the story of a legendary knight named...

Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Free game, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2017

Steam: 96/100

Four years after the end of the Great War and the death of her mother, the girl is still trying to cope with the consequences of the past and get...

Magical MILFs

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2019

Steam: 71/100

This visual novel follows former magical heroines who face the return of the Nega-Force, now renamed the Neo Nega-Force, after ten years of peace...

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Visual novel, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2018

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an original adventure game from one of the creators of Gone Home. The plot follows the road adventure of a man...

Emily is Away Too

Adventure, Visual novel, Free game, Indie, Simulation, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Emily is Away Too is an interactive text adventure with pixel graphics, which is the ideological successor to Emily is Away. Expect more expanded...

Song of Farca

Adventure, Simulation, Futurism (Future), Interactive movie, Visual novel, Logic, Cyberpunk, Detective, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

Song of Farca is a detective adventure with visual novel elements in a cyberpunk setting. The game takes place in the near future, where technology...

No Longer Home

Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Visual novel, Arcade, Point & Click, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2021

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 73/100

No Longer Home is an exciting adventure game with visual novel elements. Bo and Ao are graduating from university and are about to leave the...

Banebush

Horror, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 December 2024

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 94/100

A gloomy adventure made in black and red colors and inspired by fairy tales. The game has several endings, the receipt of which depends on the...

Rogue Racer

Action, Racing, Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 18 September 2026

Steam: 81/100

A narrative racing adventure game set in a vast and whimsical world. The story centers around two estranged brothers who embark on a transcontinental...

Rituals in the Dark

Indie, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 20 November 2019

Steam: 85/100

A visual novel about a romance between two women, with mild horror elements, set in the seaside town of Scarborough. Aspen Draper struggles to move...

Twists of My Life

Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 8 October 2019

Steam: 74/100

This visual novel follows a law student at University N whose ordinary life changes after he gets into trouble and has to move. The move begins a new...

Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Adventure, Horror

Game released: Linux → 17 November 2017

Steam: 95/100

A mystery visual novel with supernatural elements continues the Ushiromiya family’s story on Rokkenjima on October 4, 1986. At the annual family...

Alpha Hole Prison - A Yaoi, Gay, Bara Visual Novel

Visual novel, Simulation, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2021

Steam: 91/100

This visual novel and dating sim follows Earthling Miguel Santos, who has been sentenced to life in Alpha Hole, a notorious space prison. To survive...

Shining Song Starnova

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2018

Steam: 94/100

This visual novel follows the aspiring idols of STARNOVA as they face fierce competition in the entertainment industry. The player takes the role of...

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Visual novel, Point & Click, Comedy, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Demetrios — The BIG Cynical Adventure is a fun visual novel with puzzles and a side view. The main character is a slob living in Paris named...

Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood

Adventure, Visual novel, Side view

Game released: Linux → 8 April 2021

Steam: 83/100

This side-scrolling adventure follows Scarlet, who is swept by a tornado into the magical realm of Glome. After a series of mishaps, she must lead a...

Exogenesis: Perils of Rebirth

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Post-apocalyptic, Visual novel, Point & Click, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 20 April 2019

Steam: 66/100

Exogenesis: Perils of Rebirth is a visual adventure novel with anime elements in a post-apocalyptic setting. From the ashes of war, humanity...

Visual novel

Best Games in the Visual novel genre for Linux