Visual novel for Linux — top best games in the Visual novel genre / Page 9

Love at First Sight - a game in the Visual novel genre

Game released: Linux → 18 May 2015

Steam: 96/100

This romantic visual novel follows a high school student who falls in love at first sight with Sachi Usui, a shy, reclusive girl with one eye and a...

Silver Case

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Detective

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Silver Case — adventure visual novel in Japanese style. The game is dedicated to the investigation of a series of brutal murders that occurred...

SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Detective, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 90/100

A murder-mystery visual novel about ten friends gathered at a secluded mountain resort for Halloween. Their party turns into a night of horror when...

＜/reality＞

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

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2017

Steam: 86/100

＜/reality＞ is an adventure visual novel in Japanese style. The events will tell about the adventure of young Lily, who goes to her friend's place to...

Just One Line

Role-playing game, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Text quest, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 September 2018

Steam: 71/100

Just One Line is an adventure role-playing game with visual novel elements in a fantasy setting. You can create your own unique character using...

Rainswept

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Detective, Visual novel, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 1 February 2019

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Rainswept is a side-scrolling adventure detective game with a variety of puzzles. Detective Michael Anderson is sent to the small town of Pineview to...

Attentat 1942

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Historical, Visual novel, Mini-game / browser-based

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2017

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Attentat 1942 is an adventure puzzle game in the "hidden object" genre dedicated to the events of World War II. You will be able to learn more about...

Change the World

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2020

Steam: 78/100

Change the World is a visual adventure novel in the anime style and point and click genre. On the third planet of the solar system in the Milky Way...

How Stories Die

Visual novel, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

How Stories Die — adventure visual novel with fantasy elements and anime style. Horace lived a comfortable and beautiful life as the Prince of...

HIVESWAP: Act 2

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2020

Steam: 87/100

HIVESWAP: Act 2 — the continuation of the classic "point and click" adventure HIVESWAP: Act 1 about a naive alien in a world full of intrigue...

Doki Doki Ragnarok

Visual novel, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Simulation, Historical

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2022

Steam: 94/100

Doki Doki Ragnarok is an adventure visual novel in the fantasy genre. This happens in the absurd world, where the raids of the Vikings are similar to...

One Manga Day

Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 4 May 2015

Steam: 61/100

A visual novel about a Japanese manga translator tasked with the work and with navigating relationships within a team that may be more than strictly...

Kindred Spirits on the Roof

Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 12 February 2016

Steam: 97/100

This romantic visual novel follows Toomi Yuna, a student who meets two ghosts on the roof of her girls’ academy. Enoki Sachi and Nagatani Megumi fell...

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.4 Himatsubushi

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 14 October 2016

Steam: 97/100

This sound novel is set in the village of Hinamizawa, where a mysterious death and a disappearance take place each June amid controversy over a dam...

Evening Surprise

Free game, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2017

Steam: 89/100

This comedy visual novel follows Max and his girlfriend Ann, who are happy together until Ann prepares a surprise for him. The story unfolds over...

Chess of Blades

Indie, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 5 January 2018

Steam: 92/100

This visual novel blends mystery and romance in the story of Rivian Varrison, a young nobleman sent by his father to a five-day birthday celebration...

大鹏 - The Roc

Visual novel, Adventure, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 15 November 2024

Steam: 91/100

This visual novel follows Wu Shengyou, a sensitive, introverted poet who has to leave home for high school in a big city because of work. He feels...

Strawberry Vinegar

Adventure, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 January 2016

Steam: 86/100

Strawberry Vinegar is a cute, adventure visual novel about a cynical and angry young girl, Sakuraba Rie. She has a very difficult time getting along...

Selenon Rising

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2016

Steam: 70/100

Selenon Rising is a Japanese style sci-fi visual novel. The Earth has come under alien invasion. When these all-powerful beings arrived to take...

Interrogation: You will be Deceived

Simulation, Indie, Strategy, Role-playing game, Adventure, Business / Management, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2019

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Interrogation: You will be Deceived is a thrilling noir detective story with role-playing elements, where you take control of a special police...

Fujiwara Bittersweet

Visual novel, Indie, Adventure, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Free game

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 86/100

Fujiwara Bittersweet — A visual adventure novel with indie and anime elements. Aya has just moved to a new town near the mountains. Her new...

Stardander Revenant

Visual novel, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 18 October 2021

Steam: 93/100

Stardander Revenant is an adventure game with RPG elements that tells the story of a young witch, Griselda, who studies magical spells at a witch...

Doner Kebab: Fear and Loathing in Samara

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Free game

Early Access: Linux → 7 June 2024; Game in development: Linux → 2027

Players: 7.7/10

A free visual novel about several residents of Samara who have one thing in common — a love for shawarma. In this visual novel, players can...

Higurashi When They Cry

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

Game released: Linux → 13 November 2015

Steam: 97/100

The events unfold in June 1983 in the quiet Japanese village of Hinamizawa. The main character, high school student Keiichi Maebara, moves here from...

Sepia Tears

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 8 January 2016

Steam: 87/100

Sepia Tears is a romance visual novel about a memory Mark is trying to forget and Myra, who helps uncover it. Together, they search for the kind of...

Sixtieth Kilometer

Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2016

Steam: 78/100

This visual novel follows passengers on a commuter train that stops beside a pink fog. A man who steps outside dies, leaving the others trapped in...

Trick and Treat - Visual Novel

Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 31 December 2016

Steam: 85/100

This thriller and mystery visual novel, with elements of romance, follows a protagonist who ventures into a forest with friends to investigate a...

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi

Horror, Visual novel, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2017

Steam: 98/100

A horror adventure sound novel set in June 1983 follows events in Hinamizawa, a small village in the Japanese countryside. For four years, someone...

Who Is Mike - A Visual Novel

Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2015

Steam: 91/100

This visual novel blends mystery, supernatural thriller, and comedy. After waking with a headache, the protagonist finds a man who accuses him of...

Brilliant Shadows - Part One of the Book of Gray Magic

Adventure, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 2 November 2015

Steam: 92/100

This fantasy visual novel follows Veronica Ashmar, a necromancer graduating from the Mountain. Tradition requires graduating necromancers to undergo...

Grand Pigeon's Duty

Side view, Visual novel, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 5 August 2016

Steam: 76/100

A side-scrolling visual novel with shooter elements is set in a near future where people have replaced their organs with petrol implants and food...

Timestamps: Unconditional Love

Visual novel, Science fiction, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 7 January 2023

Steam: 77/100

An adult science-fiction visual novel about time travel, relationships, and the secrets hidden in Cougar Valley. The protagonist’s life changes when...

Roommates

Visual novel, Comedy, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2014

Steam: 75/100

This comedy visual novel with life-simulation elements follows Max and Anne through their first year of college and dorm life. The protagonist shares...

To Be Or Not To Be

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 4 February 2015

Steam: 89/100

This visual novel reimagines William Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a nonlinear, choice-driven adventure. Ryan North’s version takes a comic approach to the...

Summer Fling

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

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 70/100

Summer Fling is a Japanese-style adventure with elements of a dating simulator. You and two friends are about to go on a summer vacation before...

Earthshine

Adventure, Visual novel, Arcade, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 9 December 2019

Steam: 89/100

Earthshine is an adventure visual novel. The game tells the story of two travelers who are trying to cross the desert, but get into trouble. The...

Casey Noir and Carved Pumpkin's Latte

Visual novel, Free game, Point & Click, Detective, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 2 October 2025

Steam: 88/100

The game takes place in a Gothic hotel perched atop a lonely hill on Halloween night. The protagonist, an immortal ghost detective, must solve the...

Return to Ash

Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 10 July 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

Ashley woke up in the afterlife. The girl meets other characters who have found themselves in this strange purgatory and faces various trials from a...

Blackberry Honey

Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2017

Steam: 94/100

A visual novel about a romance between maids in mid-19th-century England. After losing her position at Hartwell, Lorina Waugh searches for work and...

Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 November 2015

Steam: 82/100

This comedic visual novel follows a cast of characters whose genders are changed by unforeseen and absurd circumstances. Players choose from thirteen...

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Best Games in the Visual novel genre for Linux