Visual novel for PlayStation 5 — top best games in the Visual novel genre / Page 2

Universe For Sale - a game in the Visual novel genre

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...

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...

I Saw Black Clouds

Interactive movie, Horror, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural, Simulation, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 30 March 2021

Players: 7/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 48/100

I Saw Black Clouds is a mystical interactive film in the horror genre. After her friend's suicide, Christina returns to her hometown. In an attempt to unravel the...

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: 63/100

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...

Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Horror, Science fiction, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 12 August 2021

Steam: 91/100

Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is an indie horror adventure in the style of a visual novel with fantasy elements. Building on the horrifying legacy of the Weeping...

We Are OFK

Adventure, Indie, Interactive movie, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 18 August 2022

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 75/100

We Are OFK is an adventure visual novel with a deep plot. Itsumi Saito has just moved to Downtown and broken up with her longtime girlfriend. Trying to realize...

Afterlove EP

Adventure, Indie, Music game, Side view, Visual novel, Comics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 14 February 2025

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

An interactive visual short story with elements of a musical rhythm game and a dite simulator, the action of which unfolds in a modern Jakarta. In the center of...

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...

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...

Little Goody Two Shoes

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 31 October 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Young Eliza has found a pair of the most beautiful shoes — under the influence of a spell they will send the girl on a terrible journey. The game has 10...

Potionomics

Business / Management, Side view, Fantasy, Simulation, Visual novel, Indie, Role-playing game, Crafting

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 22 October 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Potionomics is an exciting management simulator with visual novel elements in a fantasy setting. After the tragic death of her uncle, a poor witch named Sylvia...

Garfield Kart 2 - All You Can Drift

Arcade, Racing, Sports game, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 September 2025

Steam: 45/100

Garfield and his friends are back in a wild race where every race turns into chaos. Eight iconic characters get behind the wheel of karts to race along tracks full...

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...

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...

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...

Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 20 April 2023

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The second episode returns to a cozy night café, where the fates of people and fantastic beings intersect amidst the rain and neon lights. Quiet conversations about...

VED

Side view, Role-playing game, Fantasy, Turn-based, Tactics, Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 14 November 2024

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 66/100

A dark game in which the gamer explores mysterious islands where he fights monsters. Set in two worlds, the game tells the story of Cyrus, a young hero who embarks...

The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak 2

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Fantasy, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 14 February 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 77/100

The sequel continues the story of the world of Calvard, where peaceful life is again under threat. After the defeat of the Almaty mafia organization, people return...

Sunset Hills

Exploration, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Role-playing game, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 August 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 61/100

The game takes place in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. After the army, the main character named Niko became a writer and went on a train journey. In...

No Longer Home

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 3 March 2023

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 apartment they've lived...

Bahnsen Knights

Visual novel, Detective, Old school, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 18 January 2024

Steam: 97/100

The game takes place in 1986 in Tornado Alley, USA. The main character is an undercover agent who has infiltrated a religious cult known as the Knights of Banzen...

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...

Mediterranea Inferno

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Horror, Comics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 5 March 2024

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Claudio, Andrea and Mida are vacationing in the south of Italy. Around the age of 20, the characters reunite after two years of enforced isolation, hoping to...

Shanghai Summer

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 February 2024

Steam: 89/100

The game takes place in Shanghai in 2003. Suddenly, Baichuan feels that something is wrong with his life — sometimes he thinks he can see his memories, so...

South of the Circle

Adventure, Visual novel, Point & Click

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 3 August 2022

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 74/100

South of the Circle is a narrative visual novel in the point and click genre. This is an emotional game with a deep, multi-layered cinematic story. She raises...

Mia and the Dragon Princess

Interactive movie, Adventure, Visual novel, Comedy, Simulation

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 4 May 2023

Steam: 67/100

An interactive film with real actors about a barmaid named Mia. One day a strange woman appears at her work — she is fleeing from bandits and does not speak...

Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!

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

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Detectives Sonny and Marty from Chicken Police continue to do their job. During the investigation, the heroes end up in the Hive — a ghetto inhabited by insects...

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...

OPUS: Echo of Starsong

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga, Exploration, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 4 February 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 75/100

OPUS: Echo of Starsong is a Japanese adventure visual novel in a science fiction...

Way Down

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Stealth, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 19 April 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

Way Down is a third-person spy action game with stealth elements, based on the film Heist of a Brilliant. In the game you have to storm the vault of the most...

BROK the InvestiGator

Adventure, Side view, Arcade, Detective, Post-apocalyptic, Point & Click, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 1 March 2023

Steam: 97/100

The game takes place in a futuristic world inhabited by humanoid animals. The rich live under a dome that protects them from environmental pollution. The main...

Promise Mascot Agency

Adventure, Simulation, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Open world, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 April 2025

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The game takes place in a cursed Japanese city. The main character collects mascot creatures to help them, but they can also perform various tasks on their own. You...

The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World

Arcade, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 23 March 2022

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 tell about a guy...

Save Koch

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 2 August 2023

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...

Sakura Nova

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 October 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 87/100

Sakura Nova is an adventure with elements of an anime or manga game and a visual novel from the masters of the studios Nutaku and Winged Cloud. The game is...

Memories of East Coast

Visual novel, Adventure, Indie, Text quest, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 December 2021

Steam: 66/100

Memories of East Coast is an atmospheric visual novel that will take you on a journey through memories, nostalgia and guilt. The main character is a certain Sam...

Legends of Talia: Arcadia

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 April 2021

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 Arcadia, who...

Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom

Adventure, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Visual novel, Business / Management, Tactics, Top-down view, Isometric

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 12 November 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 73/100

Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom is an adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat and visual novel elements. Muspellsheim, a land of deserts and wilderness...

The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki

Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy, Turn-based, Third-person view, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 18 July 2022

Steam: 91/100

The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki is a Japanese role-playing game with turn-based combat and third-person perspective in the popular fantasy universe of The...

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...

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Best Games in the Visual novel genre for PlayStation 5