Best Visual Novel

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a visual novel adventure game created by Capcom. Initially released on Game Boy Advance in 2001, it gained wider distribution with a Nintendo DS version in 2005 featuri...

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is a visual novel adventure game developed by Spike Chunsoft. Initially released for the PSP in 2010, it was subsequently ported to mobile platforms and localized inte...

Katawa Shoujo is a visual novel developed by Four Leaf Studios featuring a male protagonist navigating daily life alongside five young women who have disabilities. The game employs a text and sprite-b...

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All is a visual novel adventure game created by Capcom. Initially launched on the Game Boy Advance in 2002, it was later ported to the Nintendo DS and releas...

Air is a visual novel by Key released in 2000. The game centers on Yukito Kunisaki’s quest for a mysterious woman, beginning in a coastal town and involving interactions with multiple young women. Sub...

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations is a visual novel adventure game created by Capcom. Initially released on the Game Boy Advance in 2004, it has been ported to Nintendo DS and oth...

Tsukihime is a visual novel developed by Type-Moon, initially launched in 2000. Adaptations of the game include a 2003 anime series produced by J.C.Staff and a manga series published between 2003 and...

School Days is a Windows-based visual novel developed by 0verflow in 2005, later ported to PS2 and PSP. The game centers around Makoto Ito’s relationships with several female classmates, offering mult...

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney is a visual novel adventure game created by Capcom. Released initially on the Nintendo DS in 2007, it forms the fourth installment within the Ace Attorney series. The titl...

The Song of Saya is a 2003 Japanese visual novel developed by Nitroplus. It centers on a student grappling with cognitive symptoms following a family tragedy and subsequent horrific visions. The game’...

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien is a Japanese visual novel released in 2001 for Windows, later ported to Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. The game features a branching narrative driven by player interaction with eigh...

Shuffle! is a Japanese visual novel developed by Navel, initially released in 2004. The game features a branching narrative centered around interactions with female protagonists and pre-determined sce...

Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a point-and-click adventure game for the Nintendo DS. It debuted at E3 2006 and launched in North America on January 22, 2007, utilizing the Rumble Pak accessory. A re-release...

Bible Black is a 2000 eroge video game created by ActiveSoft, featuring art and scripting by Sei Shoujo. The title garnered significant attention within the eroge genre as an anime-inspired work. It w...

Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney is a crossover game developed by Capcom and Level-5 for the Nintendo 3DS. It blends puzzle-solving gameplay from the Professor Layton series with courtroom drama mech...

Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage! is a rhythm game featuring six Vocaloids and twenty original human characters. The gameplay takes place in a world known as Sekai, formed from the characters’ emotions. I...

Robotics;Notes is a visual novel developed by 5pb., part of the Science Adventure series initiated with Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate. Initially launched in 2012 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it has sin...

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is a 2009 adventure game for Nintendo DS, iOS, and Android. The title serves as the fifth installment in the Ace Attorney series, taking place between *Pho...

Chaos;Head is a 2008 visual novel centered around Takumi Nishijou’s involvement in a series of murders. The game features elements of delusion and hallucination that players can impact, influencing th...

Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two is a two-part visual novel series developed for Windows and PlayStation 2. The initial installment, Ef: The First Tale, debuted in 2006, followed by Ef: The Latter Tale in...

Rewrite is a visual novel by Key, initially released in 2011 for Windows PCs. The game centers on Kotarou Tennouji’s investigations alongside five girls within the fictional city of Kazamatsuri, deali...

Muv-Luv is a Japanese visual novel series developed by âge. The core gameplay involves navigating a branching narrative with multiple female protagonists, offering distinct scenarios based on player c...

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is a visual novel adventure for Nintendo DS developed by Chunsoft. The game involves a group of individuals trapped on a sinking cruise liner who must participate...

Radical Dreamers is a 1996 text-based visual novel developed by Square for the Satellaview. It serves as a connected narrative to Chrono Trigger, released alongside its expanded version, The Radical D...

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies is a visual novel adventure game created by Capcom. Originally released on the Nintendo 3DS in 2013, it expands upon the established Ace Attorney series n...

Another Code: Two Memories is a 2005 point-and-click adventure game for the Nintendo DS. Developed by Cing and published by Nintendo, it was initially released in Japan before international distributi...

Trauma Center: New Blood is a Wii simulation game featuring doctors Vaughn and Blaylock utilizing the Healing Touch to combat the Stigma virus. The title blends surgical gameplay with a narrative pres...

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is a visual novel developed by Spike Chunsoft, initially released in 2012 for PlayStation Portable. Subsequent ports and enhanced versions were made available across mul...

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2023 visual novel developed by Sega. It presents a scenario where players interrogate Sonic characters regarding his death, presented as an April Fools’ Day joke....