Visual novel for PC — top best games in the Visual novel genre / Page 3

Rogue Racer - a game in the Visual novel genre

Action, Racing, Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Arcade

Game released: PC → 18 September 2026

Steam: 80/100

A narrative racing adventure game set in a vast and whimsical world. The story centers around two estranged brothers who embark on a transcontinental...

Resort BOIN

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 16 March 2007

Players: 6.6/10

Resort BOIN is an adventure with a mixture of an anime or manga game and a visual novel from developers from the CROSSNET studio. The main publisher...

Death Come True

Interactive movie, Adventure, Visual novel, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 17 July 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...

KinitoPET

Horror, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game, Old school

Game released: PC → 9 January 2024

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 93/100

Psychological horror styled after virtual assistants from the early 2000s. The player meets a friendly digital pet named Kinito, who can communicate...

The Key to Home

Simulation, Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 21 January 2018

Players: 7.2/10

The Key to Home is an adventure visual novel with elements of a dating simulator. The game tells the story of a Japanese teacher who is persuaded by...

Know by heart

Adventure, Indie, Visual novel, Interactive movie, Third-person view, Casual game

Game released: PC → 10 February 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

The main character Misha is mired in monotonous work and indistinguishable everyday life, but one day his routine is invaded by old school love and...

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

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

Game released: PC → 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...

From Beyond

Visual novel, Free game, Text quest, Casual game, Fantasy, Anime / Manga, Medieval era

Game released: PC → 9 February 2025

Steam: 100/100

A free visual novel with hand-drawn art and multiple endings. After being stabbed, the main character, Ivran, finds himself in a strange and cruel...

Red Rooster

Role-playing game, Adventure, Visual novel, Text quest

Game in development: PC → 2027

Summer Eternal’s debut RPG, created by former Disco Elysium developers. The team includes writers Argo Tuulik and Dora Klindžić, as well as other...

Tokyo Dark

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

Game released: PC → 7 September 2017

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Tokyo Dark is a side-scrolling crime-psychological adventure in the Japanese style. You will take on the role of detective Ayami Ito, who is...

Sakura Apprentice

Visual novel, Simulation, Adult game, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 26 August 2019

Players: 8.9/10

Sakura Apprentice is a side-scrolling adventure game for adults in which you take on the role of a hero trained by a charming girl named Freya. She...

Library Of Ruina

Action, Anime / Manga, Card game, Strategy, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 10 August 2021

Players: 9/10

Steam: 96/100

Library Of Ruina is a role-playing simulator of battles in a library. The player invites guests to the library and engages them in battle to obtain...

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

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...

Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: PC → 10 September 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 65/100

The game takes you to New York City in 2024, where the fragile balance between the Camarilla and the Anarchs is ready to collapse at any moment...

Until Then

Adventure, Visual novel, Side view, Casual game

Game released: PC → 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...

Always Remember Me

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Simulation

Game released: PC → 17 April 2011

Steam: 59/100

This visual novel blends life simulation and dating sim elements in a story about Amy, whose boyfriend Aaron loses his memory after a car accident...

Littlewitch Romanesque: Editio Regia

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

Game released: PC → 16 December 2014

Steam: 78/100

This fantasy visual novel combines student-training simulation and strategy as the wizard Domino is tasked with preparing two pupils to become...

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut

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

Game released: PC → 23 October 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 96/100

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...

project; VIRAI: DOOMER's LIFE ESCAPE

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

Game in development: PC → Q1 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

The main character, Khichi, creates the image of a cheerful vituber, Viray, to hide from her own fears and depression. Events develop at the...

Homicipher

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Text quest

Game released: PC → 1 November 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 98/100

An unusual adventure visual novel that combines horror, exploration, and the deciphering of a fictional language. The main character finds herself in...

NEKOPARA Vol. 2

Anime / Manga, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 20 February 2016

Steam: 96/100

A visual novel about a family of catgirls working at the La Soleil patisserie. Business is thriving, but sisters Azuki and Coconut, once especially...

The Men of Yoshiwara: Ohgiya

Adventure, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 20 April 2016

Steam: 82/100

This romance visual novel for a female audience is set in Yoshiwara, a pleasure district where the usual roles of men and women are reversed. The...

Otometeki Koi Kakumei Love Revo!!

Simulation, Anime / Manga, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 28 March 2008

Otometeki Koi Kakumei Love Revo!! is a simulator with an admixture of an anime or manga game and a visual novel from developers from the studio HuneX...

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 27 June 2017

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This third-person action game with shooter and horror elements follows Komaru Naegi after she escapes a long imprisonment and finds the city of Towa...

New Tales from the Borderlands

Adventure, Interactive movie, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Visual novel, Space

Game released: PC → 21 October 2022

Players: 7/10

Steam: 29/100

Metacritic: 63/100

New Tales from the Borderlands — the continuation of the interactive adventure game Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Games Series in the...

Heads Will Roll: Reforged

Adventure, Role-playing game, Adult game, Turn-based, Visual novel, Survival, Strategy, Replayability, Medieval era

Game released: PC → 4 October 2023

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 82/100

The game takes place in a medieval setting. The plot tells about a soldier who wants to escape justice. To clear his name and regain his former life...

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Exploration

Game released: PC → 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...

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy

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

Game released: PC → 25 January 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Detective visual novel in the Ace Attorney series, where players take on the role of a lawyer and investigate various cases. The action takes place...

Universe For Sale

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Sonicomi

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: PC → 2 July 2016

Steam: 89/100

A casual visual novel about Sonico, a college student and amateur musician preparing to make her modeling debut. As her personal photographer, the...

Destiny's Princess: A War Story, A Love Story

Adventure, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 6 April 2016

Steam: 77/100

This adventure visual novel tells a romance set in an alternate version of the Warring States period, where a princess’s country faces an invasion of...

Melty Blood

Action, Adventure, Fighting, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Visual novel

Game released: PC → December 2002

Players: 9.5/10

Melty Blood is a third-person action game with elements of adventure, fighting, anime or manga and visual novel from developers from French-Bread and...

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star

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

Game released: PC → 5 December 2015

Players: 1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 54/100

This holiday-themed visual novel continues the story of Hatoful Boyfriend and returns to its world of birds. Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star follows...

Bloodshore

Indie, Adventure, Action, Interactive movie, Point & Click, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 3 November 2021

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 68/100

Bloodshore is an interactive adventure movie in the point and click genre with action and indie elements. This game is about a televised battle...

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

Adventure, Detective, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 6 September 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 83/100

The collection combines two exciting games, offering a unique perspective on crime investigation. Instead of the courtroom, protagonist Miles...

PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

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

Game released: PC → 19 February 2026

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This is a dark detective visual novel set on the remote Japanese island of Kameshima, a place steeped in legends about mermaids and immortality. The...

Corpse Party

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

Game released: PC → 25 April 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This horror adventure with visual-novel elements follows a group of students trapped in an otherworldly version of an abandoned elementary school...

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Detective

Game released: PC → 18 April 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This detective visual novel follows a school trip to the abandoned Jabberwock Island, where Monokuma restarts a deadly game. Students from Hope’s...

Hatoful Boyfriend

Arcade, Adventure, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Comedy

Game released: PC → 15 February 2012

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Hatoful Boyfriend is an arcade visual novel with anime-style adventure elements. You have been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious...

Space Rangers: Quest

Role-playing game, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Science fiction, Space

Game released: PC → 5 September 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 56/100

Space Rangers: Quest is a sci-fi text adventure with role-playing elements in the Space Rangers universe. You will have to investigate the nature of...

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Best Games in the Visual novel genre for PC