Visual novel 2017 for PC — top best games in the Visual novel genre

Doki Doki Literature Club! - a game in the Visual novel genre

Horror, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Visual novel, Free game, Casual game

Game released: PC → 6 October 2017

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A visual novel that starts as a carefree story about a school literature club but gradually turns into something much more unsettling. Upon joining the club, the...

Grisaia Phantom Trigger Vol.1

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

Game released: PC → 28 April 2017

Steam: 92/100

The game takes place in the world of the Grisaia franchise, but with a new storyline and characters. The heroes go on dangerous missions for the good of the state...

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: PC → 26 September 2017

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is an adventure visual novel set in the Danganronpa universe. Welcome to the new world of Danganronpa. The most ambitious and...

Tomboys Need Love Too!

Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 12 May 2017

Steam: 86/100

This romantic visual novel follows Kai and Chris, childhood friends whose relationship shifts when Chris comes to stay with her next-door neighbor while her parents...

Reigns: Her Majesty

Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Visual novel, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 6 December 2017

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Reigns: Her Majesty is a continuation of the card board game, where you will become the ruler of a small kingdom and take part in deciding important elections on...

XOXO Droplets

Visual novel, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 31 August 2017

Steam: 74/100

This visual novel and dating sim follows a high school student who transfers to the boarding school of her dreams. Her parents will let her stay through graduation...

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

Adventure, Horror, Collection, Puzzle, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 25 March 2017

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games — an adventure collection that includes Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. You can...

Trajectory of summer flower

Casual game, Visual novel, Adventure

Game released: PC → 15 August 2017

Steam: 77/100

This adventure visual novel follows high school student Lin Jiajun, who travels to Tangxia village to learn about its school and reunites with a childhood friend he...

England Exchange

Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 5 May 2017

Steam: 51/100

This romantic visual novel follows an American college student from New York spending a semester in England to broaden their horizons. Players choose the...

Dal Segno

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 30 June 2017

Steam: 87/100

This romantic visual novel with a science-fiction setting follows a transfer student at Kazana Academy, on an island built to remain an everlasting summer paradise...

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

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

Game released: PC → 20 July 2017

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a visual novel with a first-person view and elements of a dating simulator. You and your daughter have just moved to the new...

Subsurface Circular

Arcade, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Detective, Text quest

Game released: PC → 17 August 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Subsurface Circular is an unusual adventure with elements of a visual novel and a text game from the creator of Thomas Was Alone. You take on the role of a robot...

Stories Untold

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Indie, Text quest

Game released: PC → 27 February 2017

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...

Da Capo 3 R

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 20 January 2017

Steam: 96/100

This romantic visual novel follows a new student at Weather Vane, a school of magic hidden in a pocket dimension beneath 1950s London. Built on three floating...

Games&Girls

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Casual game

Game released: PC → 18 April 2017

Steam: 78/100

This episodic visual novel follows a gamer who dropped out of college to spend more time playing and used all his savings to buy the exclusive Sirrah console. One...

Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Comedy

Game released: PC → 8 September 2017

Steam: 81/100

This romantic-comedy visual novel follows Ema Tachibana, a withdrawn schoolgirl chosen by two young men to be their first model. Ema is content with keeping to...

Alone With You

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 9 February 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Alone With You is a sci-fi adventure game in a pixel style. Players will play as the last surviving person on the planet. The main character needs to get out of a...

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 searching for her...

Beyond Eden

Visual novel, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 6 October 2017

Steam: 91/100

Set in the late Victorian era, this BL visual novel follows a story of revenge and complicated relationships between men. Young businessman Alex Wake returns to the...

Crimson Gray

Visual novel, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 14 July 2017

Steam: 95/100

This psychological thriller visual novel follows John, a young man with severe depression who meets Lizzie as he begins to lose hope. She seems affectionate and...

The Letter - Horror Visual Novel

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

Game released: PC → 24 July 2017

Steam: 86/100

An atmospheric visual novel in the horror and drama genre, inspired by classic Asian horror films. The story unfolds in the gloomy mansion of Ermengard, which has...

Grisaia Phantom Trigger Vol.3

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Casual game

Game released: PC → 28 July 2017

Steam: 93/100

A kinetic visual novel in the Grisaia series follows a group of Mihama students on a mission overseas. While Rena and Maki recover from their injuries, the other...

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 under the...

家有大貓 Nekojishi

Visual novel, Free game, Text quest

Game released: PC → 12 November 2017

Steam: 92/100

A visual novel about feline beast-men, Taiwanese folklore, and a world of gods and spirits. In Nekojishi, the player follows the story and makes decisions shaped by...

Detective Butler: Maiden Voyage Murder

Visual novel, Detective, Text quest

Game released: PC → 26 May 2017

Steam: 82/100

A detective visual novel about a locked-room murder aboard a cruise ship setting out on its maiden voyage half a century after two passengers died there. Gilligan...

LoveKami -Useless Goddess-

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Text quest

Game released: PC → 29 May 2017

Steam: 81/100

This visual novel follows an attempt to reform Akane, an Aragami goddess who lives among humans in a Japan where countless goddesses have descended to Earth...

the 9th day:第九日

Indie, Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 16 February 2017

Steam: 92/100

This adventure visual novel follows Shyou, a high school student who dies while trying to save a girl from a fire, but remains in the world as a soul. A messenger...

Metropolis: Lux Obscura

Interactive movie, Visual novel, Logic, Match-3 (Three in a row), Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 11 October 2017

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Metropolis: Lux Obscura is a unique blend of visual novel and match-3 puzzle game set in a noir setting. The game takes place in the gloomy city of Metropolis...

Nightshade/百花百狼

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 12 April 2017

Steam: 95/100

The game combines classic mechanics of otome games with a Japanese setting, in this case, the feudal Japan era. The main character, Enju, is the daughter of the...

Bai Qu: Hundreds of Melodies

Casual game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 28 July 2017

Steam: 95/100

This visual novel follows college student Wei Qiuwu and Li Jiayun, a sickly girl who plays the concertina, in Nanjing, China, as spring gives way to summer. While...

Muv-Luv Alternative

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

Game released: PC → 18 September 2017

Steam: 94/100

Muv-Luv Alternative is a continuation of the Japanese style adventure visual novel. Three years have passed since the day when an unsuspecting Japanese high school...

Love Ribbon

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 January 2017

Steam: 91/100

This visual novel follows Iris as her younger sister Zoey moves in with her and transfers to her school, setting the stage for a forbidden attraction between the...

Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Adventure

Game released: PC → 17 November 2017

Steam: 95/100

A mystery visual novel with supernatural elements continues the Ushiromiya family’s story on Rokkenjima on October 4, 1986. At the annual family gathering, the...

Lost Dimension

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Dungeons, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 30 October 2017

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Lost Dimension is a tactical role-playing game with turn-based combat in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell the story of young Sho Kasugai, a member of the...

Once Upon an All Hallow's Eve

Simulation, Visual novel, Free game

Game released: PC → 19 January 2017

Steam: 83/100

This otome visual novel follows college student Cara Lee, who finds herself alone in a dark forest after a landslide. Before the start of her final semester, she...

Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Historical

Game released: PC → 24 August 2017

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 83/100

This historical fantasy visual novel follows Chizuru, a young woman searching for her father in Kyoto during the Bakumatsu period. There, she encounters the samurai...

Blackberry Honey

Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 24 October 2017

Steam: 94/100

A visual novel about a romance between maids in mid-19th-century England. After losing her position at Hartwell, Lorina Waugh searches for work and arrives at the...

The Last Weekend

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 March 2017

Steam: 61/100

The Last Weekend is a visual novel with quest elements, set around a group of young people staying at a remote hotel. The player chooses one of four characters...

Sakura Agent

Visual novel, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: PC → 27 January 2017

Steam: 80/100

This adventure visual novel follows Akira, an agent protecting the world from incursions by strange creatures from another dimension. He is assisted by his aide and...

Attentat 1942

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Historical, Visual novel, Mini-game / browser-based

Game released: PC → 31 October 2017

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Attentat 1942 is an adventure puzzle game in the "hidden object" genre dedicated to the events of World War II. You will be able to learn more about the Nazi...

Visual novel

Best Games in the Visual novel genre of 2017 for PC (Game released)