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Visual Novel

Visual novels are interactive stories. They focus mainly on character development and plot rather than action and gameplay mechanics.

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Short

Games which have short playtimes and can usually be completed in one sitting.

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Top rated free Visual Novel
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Rose garden sentiments
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
teletuu
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(70 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Soft Underbelly
Take a break. Talk to your cat about friendship, trust & care.
rosa✦dev
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(103 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Something A Little Super
Raise a super powered kid.
Barbara Truelove
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Latebus
You can't remember your name.
kapitha
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
The Painting
A grieving father relives memories of days long gone.
Tymedust Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Welcome Back
A text-based game about the space between endings and beginnings.
Nessa Cannon
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(70 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Drown With Me Demo
Mermaids vs Pirates
Barbara Truelove
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Still Shining
Watch the stars with your best friend.
HusbandoGoddess
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Please Tell Me I Love You
A short conversation about a relationship
A G Moody
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
carnificare
a stranger tells you a story about a monster.
cerberus
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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I Knew You Would Find This
An experimental Twine game exploring a broken relationship.
Nessa Cannon
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(69 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
The Mouth Of The Woods
Twenty-seven-year-old Casper Antilles was last seen on ███████ street Wednesday night around 9:00 PM.
DOMINO CLUB
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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灰舟
献给好奇者。
克勒卡尔
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Serenity at Dusk
Here is where a heavy heart asks for rest.
klaiis
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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stay with me
(you're not alone)
steff
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Puzzle
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When my life begins
Thoughts about labour, retirement and the workplace
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Neotrogla
A Twine story of bugs and bodies.
Roxy S.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Jack Rampage and the Disasters
A game where you meet some demons!
Frankie☆
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Visual Novel
NieR:Cogito
You are a Machine. Make choices about Machines.
Silver Stitch
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Millika Village
Raius
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Role Playing
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GIF
a purrfect catastrophe
The daily chaotic adventures of a little cat
Fabi
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
A Short Eternity
1000 words. A boat at the end of the world. Will you survive?
Halfstar
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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GIF
Sleepy Tales
Tell your sister stories until she falls asleep
classheikki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
leaving the nest
Little Magpie's first home away from the nest
Fabi
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
INEVITABLE
A game about toxic love.
Jon Oldblood
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Stares Back
The signs brought you here.
StephenW313
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Visual Novel
CRASH / IMPACT / CONTACT
Stone thoughts in a rock desert. Unsustainable peace.
laughingpineapple
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
No !@#$s Left to Give
A short abstract visual novel about what you feel about having too many or too little !@#$s left to give
Knickknack PJ
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Honey Twigs
A warm and fluffy adventure.
Charu Tak
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Emm1.r
A strange chatroom veils a very dark mystery...
Ayane Faeldori
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A Moment of Reflection
Help a stranger in a moment of reflection
Brii-Nanas
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
lost in myself: an interactive visual novel
You are the enemy of yourself, or maybe the friend? It's always the fight with you that's hard to win.
Luna Studios
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Morning Ritual
It's morning. Again. A short interactive story about getting up and depression.
emavel
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
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Remember To Forget
What if the things that go bump in the night are just pieces of our past?
josieking
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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