Visual novel 2020 for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Visual novel genre

Five Dates - a game in the Visual novel genre

Interactive movie, First-person view, Adventure, Indie, Adult game, Visual novel, Point & Click

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 November 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Five Dates is a dating simulator with elements of an interactive adult adventure and a dash of romantic comedy. Unlike most similar projects, the game offers to...

Coffee Talk

Adventure, Simulation, Futurism (Future), Visual novel, Fantasy, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 January 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 73/100

An atmospheric visual novel with elements of a barista simulator, where everyday city life intertwines with fantasy. The action takes place in an alternate Seattle...

To the Moon

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 January 2020

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 83/100

An indie adventure game created using the RPG Maker engine. The game tells the story of two young doctors, Eva and Neil, who give people another chance to live...

Night Call

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 June 2020

Players: 1/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Night Call is an atmospheric noir adventure set in Paris and told from the perspective of a taxi driver. The main character unwittingly witnesses evidence that...

Buried Stars

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 July 2020

Steam: 73/100

A detective adventure set at the site of a building collapse during a live broadcast of a survival show. Trapped beneath the rubble, the contestants and staff try...

Chicken Police

Adventure, Indie, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 November 2020

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Chicken Police is a noir adventure of two feathered cops, Sonny Featherland and Marty MacChicken, in a black-and-white detective novel full of satire and cynical...

Code: Realize Guardian of Rebirth

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 February 2020

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Code: Realize Guardian of Rebirth — Adventure visual novel with elements of a Japanese-style dating simulator. The game will tell the story of a lonely girl...

Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip

Adventure, Comics, Visual novel, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Comedy, Online

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 May 2020

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A visual novel about the hilarious road adventures of four friends. You can play alone or with...

Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 March 2020

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A visual novel in the Vampire: The Masquerade universe. The game tells the story of the conflict between the traditionalists Camarilla and a group of independent...

Evan's Remains

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 June 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Evan's Remains is a side-scrolling puzzle-platformer adventure inspired by classic Japanese thrillers. You have to explore a mysterious island and solve puzzles to...

Vera Blanc: Episode 1 - Full Moon

Adventure, Logic, Comics, Visual novel, Mysticism / Supernatural, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 November 2020

Vera Blanc: Full Moon is a comic book-style visual novel in which the main character, a sexy girl named Vera Blanc, can read people's thoughts. She realizes this...

Stories Untold

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 January 2020

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Stories Untold is a text adventure with horror elements in the style of 80s films. The game is based on the series of the same name, which was never aired. You are...

Aviary Attorney

Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 January 2020

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Aviary Attorney is a phantasmagorical visual novel that takes players to Paris in 1848, during the era of the revolutionary movement. Playing as a falcon-lawyer, we...

Death Come True

Interactive movie, Adventure, Visual novel, Survival horror

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 June 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Death Come True is an interactive adventure with live actors. A man is lying on the bed in a hotel room. He wakes up to the shrill sound of his phone ringing...

Wintermoor Tactics Club

Strategy, Roguelike, Role-playing game, Tactics, Turn-based, Isometric, Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 September 2020

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Wintermoor Tactics Club is a tactics game where a group of academy students play various board games. The main character and her team are going through a...

If Found...

Adventure, Interactive movie, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 October 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

If Found... is an interactive visual novel about finding connections. The game takes place on the island of Achill on December 31, 1993. A young girl, Casio, reads...

My Aunt is a Witch

Visual novel, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Logic, Anime / Manga, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 November 2020

Steam: 75/100

My Aunt is a Witch is a visual novel with quest elements about a little boy, Thomas, who goes to visit his aunt Alice. Thomas has been with her for a very long...

Collar × Malice

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 March 2020

Metacritic: 74/100

A detective visual novel set in Shinjuku after a series of brutal crimes known as the "Day X Incident." The main character, a police officer, becomes a victim of an...

Warborn

Visual novel, Turn-based, Strategy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 June 2020

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Warborn is a turn-based tactics game about battles between squads of combat mechs in technologically advanced suits of armor. Players lead a strike force through...

Deep Sky Derelicts: Definitive Edition

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 March 2020

Players: 6.2/10

Deep Sky Derelicts: Definitive Edition — enhanced edition of the role-playing game Deep Sky Derelicts. It includes expansions: Deep Sky Derelicts: Station Life...

Robotics;Notes Elite

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Science fiction

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 31 January 2019

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Robotics;Notes Elite is an adventure visual novel in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell the story of schoolboy and gamer Kaito Yashio, as well as his friends from...

Rainswept

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 July 2020

Steam: 85/100

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 help the local...

Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York

Adventure, DLC, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 September 2020

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Vampire: The Masquerade — Shadows of New York — a standalone expansion for the adventure visual novel with role-playing elements Vampire: The Masquerade — Coteries...

Piofiore: Fated Memories

Adventure, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Interactive movie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 October 2020

Metacritic: 78/100

Piofiore: Fated Memories is an adventure visual novel in anime style. You will learn the story of the orphan Lily, who was unlucky enough to find herself between...

Actual Sunlight

Adventure, Top-down view, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 January 2020

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Actual Sunlight is an atmospheric top-down adventure with visual novel elements. The game will tell the dramatic story of a lonely specialist, Evan Winter, who...

Arcade Spirits

Simulation, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Futurism (Future), Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 May 2020

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Arcade Spirits is an adventure visual novel with elements of a dating simulator. The game takes place in an alternate historical universe, where there was no crisis...

Save Koch

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Business / Management, Turn-based, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 March 2020

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 63/100

A tactical simulator of a mafia godfather driven into hiding by rumors of a traitor in the ranks of his loyal henchmen. In six days he must find the “mole...

StarCrossed

Arcade, Online, Side view, Science fiction, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Shooter, Visual novel

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 April 2020

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 85/100

StarCrossed is a co-op, dynamic side-scrolling action game set in a sci-fi setting. In the game you have to join a group of 5 space heroes who travel among the...

Nekopara Vol. 4

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Adventure, First-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 December 2020

Steam: 97/100

Nekopara Vol. 4 is a visual novel in anime style that continues the story of the Nekopara series about a world in which nekos live together with people &mdash...

Death and Taxes

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Puzzle, Visual novel, Side view, Point & Click, Strategy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 September 2020

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Death and Taxes — an exciting adventure game in the spirit of Papers, Please, Reigns , and Beholder. In the game, you will take on the role of the Grim...

Murder by Numbers

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 March 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Murder by Numbers is an exciting puzzle game with elements of a visual novel in the Japanese style. The game takes place in Los Angeles in 1996. You will try on the...

Robotics;Notes DaSH

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 31 January 2019

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 66/100

Robotics; Notes Dash-an adventure visual novel in the science fiction setting. The island of Tanegasima is preparing for the summer festival six months after the...

Root Double: Before Crime * After Days - Xtend Edition

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 November 2020

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This science-fiction visual novel is set in 2030, in the isolated research city of Rokumei, where explosions at the LABO nuclear facility lead to a reactor meltdown...

Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator

Simulation, Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 February 2020

Steam: 64/100

Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator is an exciting simulator with role-playing elements in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place in the distant...

Interrogation: You will be Deceived

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 July 2020

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 department tasked...

Cafe Enchante

Anime / Manga, Adventure, Simulation, Visual novel, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 November 2020

Metacritic: 79/100

Cafe Enchante is a visual novel with elements of a Japanese-style dating simulator. The game tells the story of a young girl, Kotone, who inherits her grandfather's...

Across the Grooves

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 June 2020

Players: 6/10

Steam: 91/100

Across the Grooves is an adventure visual novel with a hand-drawn visual style. Alice lives without incident. She has a normal relationship, a stable office job and...

Best Friend Forever

Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 August 2020

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 60/100

A pet-care and dating simulation set in Rainbow Bay. The player trains, pets, and plays with a dog to build a lasting bond, while meeting and pursuing relationships...

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Best Games in the Visual novel genre of 2020 for Nintendo Switch