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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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Story Rich

Games with a heavy focus on storytelling and narrative.

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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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Project: Eden's Garden
16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.
Project: Eden's Garden
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(291 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Project: Perfectly Normal
A free action-comedy BL game about a retired killer-for-hire who has to navigate life as a normal high school student.
peaceful-pastel
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(240 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Snowbound Blood
Snowbound Blood: A Vast Error Story
Deconreconstruction
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(79 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(272 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
Delphine's Discovery
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
LegendEx Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(93 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
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
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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An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(46 total ratings)
Sepia Tears
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
AL - A Choose Your Own Adventure
Gabriel Cornish
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
NieR:Cogito
You are a Machine. Make choices about Machines.
Silver Stitch
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
On Mount Ségou
Mystical Horror Sound Novel
Rastagong
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Millika Village
Raius
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
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
Feathers
A short story about a harpy who has too many feathers. (LD40)
Crystal Game Works
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
INEVITABLE
A game about toxic love.
Jon Oldblood
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Longing
A dark fantasy novel.
Nim
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
a siren's promise
kellythekraken
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Goblins Demise
Goblins seeking Refuge
Lodugh
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Into The Hoop Demo
A basketball themed visual novel and dating sim with stat management!
intothehoop
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Honey Twigs
A warm and fluffy adventure.
Charu Tak
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
rédiger
fermentum tempus
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Conversations
Discuss with an AI in the cloud about its experience
yo252yo
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Dear Sophie
A game about the weirdness of balancing online love and real life.
Zerogue
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Kitchen Table
An interactive conversation about love, empathy and emotional management.
Gurpegui
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Anaon
A road trip along the sea.
The Sailing Frogs
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
A free fantasy visual novel about magic, monsters, and more--download now!
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Ask Her
A short parser-like game inspired by some of Sam Barlow's games. Made for the LD37.
bloomingbuds
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Local signal
Interactive story as an emergency dispatcher
YerkoAndrei
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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