Visual novel 2025 for PC — top best games in the Visual novel genre

The Freak Circus - a game in the Visual novel genre

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: PC → 19 June 2025

Players: 8.7/10

A dark visual novel where romance intertwines with psychological horror. The story begins with an ordinary job at a café, but a chance encounter with the mysterious...

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

Steam: 81/100

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...

AI2U-With You 'Til The End

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Casual game, Visual novel

Early Access: PC → 23 January 2025; Game released: PC → 12 August 2026

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 88/100

An unusual adventure with elements of psychological thriller and AI, where each story unfolds differently thanks to language models. The main character finds...

Time Space Rebuild

Adventure, Simulation, Visual novel, Role-playing game, First-person view

Game released: PC → 20 May 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 76/100

Korean dating simulator The story centers on the last days before a disaster, when only one question remains: save the world or spend the rest of your time with the...

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 internet. The...

Whispers from the Star

Adventure, Interactive movie, Casual game, Visual novel, Simulation

Game released: PC → 15 August 2025

Steam: 80/100

The player communicates with Stella, an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a mysterious planet called Gaia. You need to video call the girl, send voice or text...

Demonschool

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Dead Reset

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Rift of the NecroDancer

Music game, Fantasy, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 February 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Continuation Crypt of the Necrodancer, inspired by the Guitar Hero series. The main character Kadens falls into a strange new world, where skeletons, bats-vampires...

Date Everything!

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 9 December 2025

Steam: 92/100

A pixel adventure in the spirit of 90s quests about a young writer named William, who is searching for inspiration. He goes to an abbey where the monks have taken a...

The Bear - A Story from the World of Gra

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 4 March 2025

Steam: 100/100

An interactive adventure in which the gamer must guide a bear and a baby through various unusual locations in the atmospheric universe. As the journey progresses...

Cabernet

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

Game released: PC → 20 February 2025

Players: 9/10

Steam: 95/100

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

Альтушка для скуфа: Третий Шанс

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

Game released: PC → 24 April 2025

Players: 6.2/10

A new addition to the visual short story Altushka for Skuf, which expands the plot with new characters and forks. The players are waiting for a meeting with...

Wednesdays

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

Game released: PC → 25 March 2025

Steam: 99/100

An interactive story about growing up and memories of childhood trauma. The player returns to the world of the childhood video game Orco Park, where through...

StarVaders

Top-down view, Turn-based, Combat robots, Tactics, Roguelike, Collectible card game (CCG), Visual novel, Card game

Game released: PC → 30 April 2025

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Aliens have invaded Earth and destroyed its defenses. The main character is a pilot who must save the planet using the powers of a powerful robot. There are...

Afterlove EP

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Garfield Kart 2 - All You Can Drift

Arcade, Racing, Sports game, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 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...

and Roger

Adventure, Visual novel, Casual game, Point & Click, Simulation

Game released: PC → 23 July 2025

Steam: 96/100

A short interactive novel in which the familiar world gradually loses its clear outlines. The story unfolds through the perception of a little girl, for whom an...

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: PC → 25 January 2023

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...

Reviver

Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 January 2025

Steam: 91/100

A narrative game about two main characters, revealing the interweaving of their lives for a long time. Gamer affects their fate through interactions and elections...

Zavod

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Early Access: PC → 14 February 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 91/100

Dmitry Morozov devoted his whole life to the plant, but once reality failed. Time turned back, and the factory worker again gained youth. The old workshop no longer...

Expelled!

Visual novel, Adventure, Comics, Comedy

Game released: PC → 12 March 2025

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The game takes place in 1922 in one of the best boarding schools for girls in England. The main character is expelled, suspecting the attempt on the murder of the...

Umm Oyoun

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Puzzle, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 23 March 2025

Steam: 33/100

The story tells about a mother and her daughter Sara, who set out to find their missing father. He disappeared under mysterious circumstances during a stormy night...

Umamusume: Pretty Derby

Online, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Free game, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Role-playing game, Sports game, Casino

Game released: PC → 25 June 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

A sports RPG about unusual heroine horses who strive to be the best on the racetrack. Each participant has her own personality, abilities, and dreams, and the path...

Your House: A Hidden Truth

Adventure, Puzzle, Text quest, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 27 March 2025

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A game where puzzles and storytelling merge to tell a story about identity, ambition, and deception. The plot focuses on the intertwined destinies of two women: a...

Dread Chess

Horror, Puzzle, Survival, Visual novel, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 7 September 2025

Steam: 78/100

The gamer plays with death in experimental puzzle chess in several modes. The opponent offers to solve three riddles in exchange for life, while the number of...

Kemono Teatime

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

Game released: PC → 3 September 2025

Steam: 95/100

Tea cafe simulator for cat girls. In Melodius, players can make all kinds of tea at their favorite café while acting out a charming story. As you progress, you can...

Siberian Way

Visual novel, Adventure, Historical, Indie, Detective, Horror

Game released: PC → 4 March 2025

Steam: 73/100

Detective visual short story with a gloomy history. The events of the game unfold at the end of the 19th century, and the plot tells about the detective Ilya...

The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Visual novel, Strategy

Game released: PC → 24 April 2025

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

The game follows Takumi Sumino, an ordinary high school student living in a Tokyo apartment complex, whose quiet life is shattered when the city comes under attack...

Promise Mascot Agency

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Foolish Mortals

Adventure, Point & Click, Mysticism / Supernatural, Old school, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 5 November 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

The events unfold in Louisiana in 1933: thirty years ago, an entire wedding procession mysteriously disappeared on Devil's Rock Island, taking with it the secret of...

Return to Ash

Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 10 July 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

Ashley woke up in the afterlife. The girl meets other characters who have found themselves in this strange purgatory and faces various trials from a being in a mask...

Urban Legend Hunters 2: Double

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 25 April 2025

Steam: 55/100

Several years after the events of the first part, the disappearance of popular internet show host Chris became a hot topic on the Internet. The main character, an...

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

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Science fiction, Adventure

Game released: PC → 25 July 2025

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...

Casey Noir and Carved Pumpkin's Latte

Visual novel, Free game, Point & Click, Detective, Casual game

Game released: PC → 2 October 2025

Steam: 88/100

The game takes place in a Gothic hotel perched atop a lonely hill on Halloween night. The protagonist, an immortal ghost detective, must solve the murder of one of...

Masquerade

Adventure, Third-person view, Free game, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 4 July 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 98/100

The game tells the story of Romeo, who sets out on a dark journey through a mysterious Theatre to save Juliet, who has been turned into a puppet. A mysterious...

Playing With The Big Boys

Free game, Adventure, Side view, Visual novel, Indie, , Casual game

Game released: PC → 16 July 2025

Steam: 100/100

A dark 2D quest about a boy named Jack, who is trying to survive in a cruel world. As players progress, they explore locations, collect various items, and...

Flower of Anarchy

Role-playing game, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Free game, Action

Game released: PC → 11 July 2025

Steam: 50/100

A visual novel with role-playing elements set in a post-apocalyptic America. Players will lead a gang of raiders, make decisions that affect the storyline, manage...

Vollema

Free game, Adventure, Puzzle, Role-playing game, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 22 March 2025

Steam: 70/100

The gamer takes on the role of a college student and a member of the university volleyball team. On the way to the game, the main character and one of his comrades...

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Best Games in the Visual novel genre of 2025 for PC