Visual novel for PlayStation 5 — 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: PlayStation 5 → 29 May 2023

Players: 7.7/10

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...

The Wolf Among Us Remastered

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Visual novel, Fantasy, Detective

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 29 October 2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.3/10

An updated version of the iconic adventure from Telltale Games, based on the Fables comic series. The events unfold in a dark New York City, where characters from...

inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories

Adventure, Simulation, Business / Management, First-person view, Third-person view, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 30 April 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A small store by the house becomes the center of events, where behind the usual routine lie the stories of local residents, their concerns, and little secrets. In...

The Witch's Bakery

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Visual novel, Indie, Side view, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 14 October 2026

Steam: 94/100

An RPG bakery simulator inspired by the anime Witch's Delivery Service. The game is about a cheerful witch who opens her bakery in modern Paris. During the day, the...

Coffee Talk

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 31 October 2023

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...

Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Exploration, Open world, Visual novel

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 5 November 2026

A sequel to the adventure puzzle game where players must master the art of escape. This time, the academy becomes a full open world, with a new campus filled with...

To the Moon

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 October 2024

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...

Plumbers Don't Wear Ties: Definitive Edition

Visual novel, Adult game, Simulation

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 5 March 2024

Players: 1/10

Re-release of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. In the story, John and Jane's parents try to introduce them. The heroes meet and experience various adventures together on...

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 12 February 2025

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The main character studies various oddities, cursed relics and spatial anomalies. The stories are based on numerous urban myths floating around the internet. The...

An alt girl for skoof

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 April 2026

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 83/100

The game, based on a popular meme, tells the story of the acquaintance of a pot-bellied and balding man with altushki from State Services. In the game you can start...

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 24 October 2024

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 97/100

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 it’s the other...

Demonschool

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Visual novel, Tactics, Comedy, Japanese role-playing game, Isometric

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 19 November 2025

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 74/100

A tactical RPG with an unusual approach to combat, where every move is also an action. The story takes place on a mysterious island, where the boundary between the...

Night Book

Adventure, Horror, Interactive movie, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 12 October 2023

Steam: 67/100

Night Book is an adventure horror game in the genre of interactive cinema with point and click elements. Lauralyn works night shifts remotely from home, translating...

Suzerain

Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Historical, Visual novel, Benchmark program, Text quest

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 11 November 2025

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Suzerain is a political strategy game with elements of a text role-playing game in which the player controls a fictional state. The player's goal is to make the...

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Visual novel, Text quest, Medieval era

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 February 2022

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is a narrative role-playing game set in the pages of the protagonist's diary. You will find a story about a ruthless world...

Coffee Talk Tokyo

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 May 2026

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The game transports the familiar formula of a cozy visual novel Coffee Talk to the nighttime Tokyo, where the worlds of humans and yokai intersect behind the doors...

Steins;Gate Re:boot

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Science fiction

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 29 October 2026

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A reboot of the iconic novel Steins;Gate with updated graphics, interface, and storyline. The story is dedicated to a group of tech-savvy students led by Rintaro...

K-Pop Rising - Dream to Shine

Adventure, Simulation, Music game, Anime / Manga, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Visual novel, Text quest

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 5 November 2026

A life simulation game with rhythm game elements, where gamers can progress from a beginner to a K-pop star. The main character, along with her best friend Nova...

Backbone

Adventure, Stealth, Indie, Side view, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 28 October 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 65/100

Backbone is a noir detective role-playing game in the spirit of Wolf Among Us, where all the characters are anthropomorphic animals. The game tells the story of...

Until Then

Adventure, Visual novel, Side view, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 25 June 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The game follows the life of Mark Boria, a high school student in the Philippines. At first glance, his life is ordinary: school, friends, instant messaging...

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

Adventure, Visual novel, Interactive movie, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 22 June 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 74/100

A story-driven adventure from the creators of the Life is Strange series. Polly comes to her hometown because of her missing mother. Unfortunately, the homeland has...

Totally Spies! - Cyber Mission

Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Cooperative (co-op), Stealth, Exploration, Visual novel, Arcade

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 31 October 2024

Steam: 64/100

A cooperative action game for three based on the animated series “Total Spice!” Players take on the role of Sam, Clover or Alex as they embark on a spy adventure...

Cabernet

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Fantasy, Simulation

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 20 February 2025

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

An atmospheric role-playing game set in an alternative Eastern Europe of the 19th century, where dark gothic elements intertwine with social conflicts, political...

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

Role-playing game, Interactive movie, Visual novel, Fantasy, Music game, Adventure, Comics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 August 2023

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 75/100

In a modern fantasy world, a girl named Grace receives the power of the Muse, which she will need to find out the truth about the death of her predecessor. She...

No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Science fiction, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 26 February 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A girl named Iris is kidnapped by aliens. She finds herself on board a mysterious UFO, where she must complete a strange quest. The player, as her assistant Date...

Date Everything!

Simulation, Sandbox, Comedy, Casual game, Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 17 June 2025

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

An unusual dating simulator with inanimate objects. In the game you can take care of the table, cabinet, refrigerator, fire alarm. In general, everything that is at...

Cooking Companions

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 29 April 2025

Steam: 87/100

An unusual visual novel with elements of psychological horror, hiding a dark story behind a cute and almost carefree facade. The events unfold in the forests of the...

Highway Blossoms

Simulation, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 7 October 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

A Japanese-style visual novel with dating sim elements. The game’s story takes place in the southwestern United States, where a young woman named Amber sets out to...

Fishbowl

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Role-playing game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 30 March 2026

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A slice-of-life coming-of-age adventure about 21-year-old Alo, who starts her first job in a new city and grieves her grandmother’s death while living alone...

Dead Reset

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 11 September 2025

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 69/100

The main character, surgeon Cole Mason, was kidnapped and forced to perform an operation to remove a parasite from a patient in an underwater complex. At the same...

The Isle Tide Hotel

Detective, Visual novel, Replayability, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 12 September 2023

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 64/100

The game takes place in the Tidal Island Hotel, where a religious cult plans to perform a ritual with a girl. The main character must infiltrate the mansion to save...

The Wreck

Visual novel, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 14 March 2023

Steam: 90/100

The story of a failed screenwriter, Junon, who faces many problems at work and in her personal life. The player travels through the girl's memories to try to fix...

1000xRESIST

Science fiction, Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Walking Simulator, Visual novel, Exploration, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 4 November 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

In the future, a mysterious alien race of giant creatures arrives on Earth. They are not hostile, but their arrival is a death sentence for people. Humanity is...

Immortality

Adventure, Indie, Horror, Visual novel, Hidden Objects, Puzzle

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 23 January 2024

Players: 6/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Adventure interactive FMV thriller from the creator of indie hit Her Story. This time, the plot revolves around the missing actress Marissa Marcel, whose fate the...

Chicken Police

Adventure, Indie, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 31 March 2022

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...

Samurai Maiden

Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Slasher, Visual novel, Adventure, Role-playing game, Historical, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 1 December 2022

Players: 5/10

Steam: 61/100

Samurai Maiden is a Japanese action-adventure action RPG in the anime genre with platformer and visual novel elements. The temple is on fire. Plumes of black smoke...

Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief

Adventure, Visual novel, Exploration, Detective, Point & Click

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 17 October 2024

Steam: 69/100

Events take place in the enchanting and mysterious Paris of the early 20th century, where the player takes on the role of gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. As you...

Season: A Letter To The Future

Indie, Adventure, Third-person view, Exploration, Visual novel, Open world

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 31 January 2023

Players: 5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Season: A Letter To The Future is an indie adventure with a third-person view. You will be able to close your eyes, take a deep breath and immerse yourself in the...

Road 96: Mile 0

Adventure, Third-person view, Music game, Action, Exploration, Visual novel, Walking Simulator

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 4 April 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A musical game in which the gamer takes turns controlling two characters. A girl named Zoey from Road 96 has a good life in a wealthy neighborhood, but she runs...

Universe For Sale

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 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 secrets of survival...

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Best Games in the Visual novel genre for PlayStation 5