Visual novel for PC — top best games in the Visual novel genre

MiSide - a game in the Visual novel genre

Adventure, Horror, Simulation, First-person view, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 10 December 2024

VGTimes: 9.2/10

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 83/100

A hybrid of horror and dating simulator, MiSide offers a kaleidoscope of multi-genre mini-games — from classic puzzles to shooter elements, along with a variety of...

Клуб Романтики

Adventure, Visual novel, Adult game, Interactive movie, Simulation, Text quest

Game released: PC → 13 October 2023

Players: 7.2/10

A collection of interactive romantic novels in which the player controls the fate of the character by making numerous decisions during the passage of each story...

Tiny Bunny

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

Early Access: PC → 16 April 2021; Game released: PC → 5 December 2025

VGTimes: 7.8/10

Players: 8.8/10

An adventurous visual novel with horror elements. Looking out of the window of an old house, the boy Anton sees a fading village, huge snowdrifts, and a frozen...

Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths & Ashes

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Visual novel

Game in development: PC → 2026

A dark role-playing story set in the universe of "World of Darkness," where Berlin becomes the arena for vampire clans fighting for influence, power, and survival...

Seed of the Dead: Sweet Home

Anime / Manga, Shooter, First-person view, Visual novel, Post-apocalyptic, Adult game

Game released: PC → 28 August 2021

Players: 9.2/10

Seed of the Dead: Sweet Home is a dynamic first-person shooter with elements of a dating simulator in a zombie apocalypse setting. In the game you have to build...

Samurai Maiden

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

Game released: PC → 1 December 2022

Players: 5/10

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...

Бесконечное лето

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

Game released: PC → 21 December 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Gone Home

Adventure, First-person view, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 August 2013

Players: 5.6/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Gone Home is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the story of Caitlin Greenbriar, who returned home from a trip to Europe. She soon...

Steins;Gate

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 8 September 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Steins;Gate is a visual novel in an adventure style and anime style. You follow a ragtag group of tech-savvy young students as they discover ways to change the past...

Potionomics

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

Game released: PC → 17 October 2022

Players: 5.5/10

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...

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Arcade, Visual novel, Logic

Game released: PC → 18 February 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is a visual novel with elements of a Japanese-style dating simulator. Only the most talented students in any field are accepted...

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator

Business / Management, Isometric, Simulation, Card game, Board / Group Game, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 10 February 2022

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator is a management simulator with an isometric camera view, where you become the owner of a card shop on the seashore. As you...

The Operator

Detective, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 22 July 2024

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

A detective simulator made in the format of an interactive quest. The player acts as an operative of a detective agency, searching for evidence and solving crimes...

Catherine

Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Third-person view, Isometric, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 10 January 2019

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Catherine is an adventure arcade puzzle game with visual novel elements. The game will tell the story of computer scientist Vincent, who is experiencing the peak of...

Coffee Talk Tokyo

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

Game released: PC → 21 May 2026

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...

Joe Dever's Lone Wolf: Blood on the Snow

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

Game released: PC → 27 November 2014

Metacritic: 78/100

Joe Dever's Lone Wolf: Blood on the Snow is a fantasy RPG adventure in the style of a visual novel. Make meaningful choices and forge your own path in this epic...

Neo Cab

Adventure, Visual novel, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 October 2019

Metacritic: 75/100

Neo Cab is an unusual game with survival elements that will tell you about all the difficulties of life in the distant future. The plot follows a brave and...

Lucius

Adventure, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 5 February 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Lucius is an action-horror adventure game with a third-person view, in which you take on the role of an unusual boy who was born on June 6, 1966. As you might...

Idol Manager

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

Game released: PC → 27 July 2021

Players: 9.8/10

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) talent agency...

Coffee Talk

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

Game released: PC → 29 January 2020

Players: 8.8/10

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...

Corpse Party

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

Game released: PC → 25 April 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Corpse Party is a top-down adventure with horror, anime/manga and visual novel elements from the masters at Team GrisGris. The game is published by Marvelous USA...

Amnesia: Memories

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: PC → 25 August 2015

Metacritic: 72/100

A romantic visual novel with elements of mysticism, where the main character tries to hide her memory loss and piece her life back together. Finding herself among...

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Comedy

Game released: PC → 23 October 2023

Players: 9.5/10

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...

Chicken Police

Adventure, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 5 November 2020

Players: 8.2/10

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...

Immortality

Adventure, Indie, Horror, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 30 August 2022

Players: 5.5/10

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...

Growing Up

Adventure, Interactive movie, Simulation, Visual novel, Business / Management, Arcade

Game released: PC → 14 October 2021

Players: 8.9/10

Growing Up is an adventure visual novel with life simulation elements from the creators of Weedcraft Inc and Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast. In the game, you...

To the Moon

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

Game released: PC → 6 July 2012

Players: 9.4/10

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...

Among Us Story: On Guard

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Comedy, Space, Detective

Game in development: PC → 2026

A narrative adventure in the universe of Among Us, where life aboard a spaceship turns out to be much more dangerous than it seems at first glance. As part of the...

Stories Untold

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 February 2017

Players: 10/10

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...

Storyteller

Puzzle, Visual novel, Logic, Casual game

Game released: PC → 23 March 2023

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 72/100

An unusual cartoon puzzle where you can compose various stories in the language of pictures. The main goal of each level is to create a fairy tale with a specific...

Clannad

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

Game released: PC → 23 November 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Clannad is an adventure visual novel with elements of a dating simulator. The game tells the story of a young guy, Tomoya Okazaki, a student at Hikarizaka School...

Deep Sky Derelicts

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

Game released: PC → 26 September 2018

Players: 8.9/10

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 scattered...

Suzerain

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

Game released: PC → 4 December 2020

Players: 9.6/10

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 Coma 3: Bloodlines

Action, Adventure, Visual novel, Side view, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 30 April 2026

An adventure horror about survival, where the player must hide and run from pursuing monsters in the dark mirror dimension "Coma". The plot revolves around three...

1000xRESIST

Science fiction, Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Walking Simulator, Visual novel, Exploration

Game released: PC → 9 May 2024

Players: 5.5/10

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...

The House in Fata Morgana

Horror, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Side view

Game released: PC → 14 May 2016

Players: 10/10

House in Fata Morgana is an adventure visual novel with Japanese-style horror elements. The events of the game will tell the story of a young hero who wakes up in...

Monster Prom

Adventure, Simulation, Business / Management, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 27 April 2018

Players: 9.3/10

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 monsters, where you...

Dokyusei: Bangin' Summer

Adventure, Simulation, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 15 April 2022

Dokyusei: Bangin' Summer is a visual novel adventure with Japanese-style dating sim elements. Just months before graduating from high school, one young man came up...

Cabernet

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

Game released: PC → 20 February 2025

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

If Found...

Adventure, Interactive movie, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 19 May 2020

Players: 9.5/10

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...

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Best Games in the Visual novel genre for PC