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Indie VN's: Not Really Into This "Romance" Thing

a collection by Pixels and Pins · last updated 2023-11-10 02:55:12

"I think I'd like visual novels, but they're so gushy and full of romance and stuff."

Yeah, well, that's certainly a thing....HOWEVER, did you know not all visual novels are romance-based? Crazy right? Here are free visual novels that are either absent of or have a very downplayed romantic aspect.

But You Seem Fine
An interactive visual novel on growing up while navigating the struggles and uncertainties of invisible illness.
KJAM
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Space Between
$5.99
The Space Between is a surreal narrative experience in three acts.
chrstphfr
Adventure
A Mortician's Tale
$8.99
A death-positive game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home
Laundry Bear Games
Visual Novel
Last Meal at Cafe Mori
A visual novel about death, deserts, and introspection.
Katy133
Visual Novel
Therapy with Dr. Albert Krueger
Sign up for your therapy today!
dino999z
Interactive Fiction
Sunset
Today, a magical woman signs the divorce papers.
Storysinger Presents
Visual Novel
Play in browser
For Mother Matron (Legacy, 2020)
EXPERIENCE THE TERROR BENEATH
Velvetique
Visual Novel
Hand of Horzasha
Can living with monsters soothe a weary human heart?
Shiny Vacation
Visual Novel
Marigold
Lost in space and moments away from death, what do you do?
cervineprince
Visual Novel
GIF
January Edwards: PI | The Accountant's Affair
Join an ace PI and her hacker extraordinaire as they investigate the shady underworld of their small town.
AmesyFlo
Visual Novel
The Zodiac Trial
$12
Be Judge, Jury, and Executioner
Themis729
Visual Novel
GIF
missed messages.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
angela he
Visual Novel
Death Rule: lost code Overdrive Edition
What happened on that Island of Death?
Hijiri
Visual Novel
Order A Pizza: A Visual Novel
A visual novel where you play as a divorced dad trying to order the perfect pizza.
Rocket Adrift Games
Visual Novel
Grandma's Ghosts
A story about loss, ghosts, and possibly a cookie recipe.
Rusty Bailey
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Up All Night
$6.99
Unearth secrets. Solve a murder. Confront the darkness. Whatever transpires, you’re guaranteed to be up all night.
Fiendish Fiction
Visual Novel
The Center of the Universe
Trapped in a strange new world: ours
Pixels and Pins
Visual Novel
The Cherry Orchard
$6.99
A kinetic novel adaptation of the classic play.
Team Dogpit
Visual Novel
GIF
radio.Signal
A horror-themed visual novel about traversing a hospital in the dark, the creature that lurks within, and a radio.
Via
Visual Novel
GIF
fishy
here fishy fishy f̵̥͘͠i̷̱͉͋͑s̵͙̈͘h̵͖̅y̶̜͘
I Choose Paradise
Visual Novel
Epistle in a Bottle
Martyn Vincent is committed to their work, even in a potential life or death scenario.
SlightlySimple
Visual Novel
Midnight Train: Going Anywhere
Pudding takes a commute and chats with a passenger
strateaux
Visual Novel
Cafe in the Clouds
Two cooks turn dream eaters when troubled, sleepless townsfolk seek their unusual services.
Cafe Nemo
Visual Novel
ChainMail
Don't Stop Reading! What if sometimes the mail we dismiss as Junk was telling the truth?
Marionette
Visual Novel
GIF
The Inverted Spire
Goblin mages dungeoncrawl to redemption.
N. A. Melamed
Visual Novel
Asobi
A taxi driver, a girl and memories.
Team SolEtude
Visual Novel
There was a stranger at the door
Will you open it?
TrashyQueen
Visual Novel
GIF
King of the Cul-De-Sac
Reign Supreme over the Neighborhood Kids!
Vimi
Visual Novel
Hurricane Like Me (Demo)
Highly functional disaster masquerading as a person.
Margaret Catter Development
Visual Novel
Girl Versus Zombies
Franke
Action
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