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Chaos;Head Noah (2009)
A psycho-suspense thriller adventure game about the boundary between delusions and reality. The story centers on a serial killing spree known as the New…
Summer Memories (2020)
It is the summer break and it has been years since you've last seen your aunt and cousins in the countryside, so you don't know what to expect. What could go…
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante (2021)
A narrative-driven RPG set in a gritty world where a person's Lot is determined at birth, while the gods are real and preside over the fates of men. Set out on…
Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk (2020)
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (2025)
A new adventure from the creators of the Danganronpa and Zero Escape series! 15 students are tasked with defending a school from grotesque monsters for 100…
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (2013)
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is a fighting video game developed by Arc System Works and Atlus. It is the direct sequel to Persona 4 Arena, which is itself a…
Muv-Luv (2011)
Muv-Luv is a Japanese visual novel originally released as an adult game and the first game in the Muv-Luv franchise. Subsequent releases of the games were with…
Tokyo Dark (2017)
Tokyo Dark is an anime-style horror adventure game combining point and click and visual novel genres. The story follows Detective Itou across Tokyo, searching…
Corpse Party (2010)
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children…
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.4 Himatsubushi (2016)
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to…
Wintermoor Tactics Club (2020)
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
Milk Outside a Bag of Milk Outside a Bag of Milk (2021)
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
Steins;Gate Re:Boot (2026)
STEINS;GATE returns! Rebooted for the modern era! Featuring fully updated visuals, UI, and an all-new story that breathes new life into the streets of…
Aviary Attorney (2015)
Aviary Attorney is an adventure game in the style of the Ace Attorney series. The player takes the role of a defence lawyer, and must investigate crimes and…
Opus: Echo of Starsong (2021)
Echo of Starsong is a Narrative puzzle adventure game. Eda, a girl who can hear mysterious sound waves known as starsong, crosses paths with a young man in…
Emily Is Away Too (2017)
Emily is Away Too is the spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed original. Message both Emily and Evelyn as you determine the outcome of your senior…
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength (2018)
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the…
Speed Dating for Ghosts (2018)
Branching dialogue! Hard choices! A cemetery's worth of phantoms, wraiths, and poltergeists lookin' for love in all the blight places. Speed Dating for Ghosts…
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (2022)
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative life sim with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and…
The Incident at Galley House (2026)
In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth…
Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace (2011)
Spin-off of the popular Visual Novel "Steins;Gate". It is set up in a peaceful world line where okabe can hang out romantically with all the main characters of…
Emily is Away <3 (2021)
Emily <3 is a brand new game set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your…
You and Me and Her: A Love Story (2013)
You and Me and Her: A Love Story is the visual novel medium in its purest form. Will Shinichi choose Miyuki, the beautiful queen bee of the school, or the…
Melty Blood: Type Lumina (2021)
"MELTY BLOOD" is a series of 2D fighting games based on TYPE-MOON's visual romance novel "Tsukihime". Since the game's original release on PC in 2002, it has…
Storyteller (2023)
With Storyteller you are the one writing the stories! Start with a title, characters and settings and create your own twist on stories familiar and new.
Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim (2022)
Welcome to Murderer’s Island. Your companions: four dead-sexy Killers who, underneath their murderous exteriors, just want a little romance. Flirt your way…
Slay the Princess (2023)
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies. Slay the Princess is a choice-driven psychological horror visual novel with dramatic branching,…
Mixtape (2026)
Mixtape is a narrative adventure game developed by Beethoven & Dinosaur and published by Annapurna Interactive. Set during the last night of high school, it…
Umamusume: Pretty Derby (2021)
Umamusume: Pretty Derby is ready to race! Scout featured trainees and supporters as you navigate the immersive sports life simulation through the game's…
Assemble With Care (2019)
From the studio that brought you Monument Valley, comes a story about taking things apart and putting ourselves back together. Assemble With Care tells its…
Helltaker (2020)
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
Venba (2023)
Venba is a narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and…
Home (2012)
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.1 Onikakushi (2015)
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to…
Coffee Talk (2020)
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving…
Regency Solitaire (2015)
Experience romantic Regency England in this sumptuous solitaire game. Play your cards right as you tour historic London, Brighton and Bath, and help Bella…
We Are OFK (2022)
Start a band in this dreamy, musical TV show from indie pop cuties OFK. Cry, skate, date, and run for your life in 5 interactive music videos, across a…
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut (2024)
Slay the Princess is a choice-driven psychological horror visual novel with dramatic branching, light RPG elements, and hand-penciled art. The Pristine Cut is…
The Maker's Eden (2014)
The Maker's Eden is a first-person hypertext adventure game presented in the style of a motion comic. You play a character trying to discover what their…
Muv-Luv Photonflowers* (2014)
Muv-Luv Photonflowers* is one of two side-story collections in the Muv-Luv series of visual novels released in 2014, the other being Photonmelodies♮.
Yu-No: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World (2017)
Yu-No: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World is a Japanese-style adventure game, also known as a visual novel, originally released in 1996 for the…
Opus: The Day We Found Earth (2015)
Opus: The Day We Found Earth is a stargazing experience handcrafted for people who enjoy story driven games and arguing about Pluto. After eons of spreading…
Choice of Alexandria (2016)
Choice of Alexandria is an interactive novella. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based - 90,000 words, without graphics or sound effects -…
Omni Link (2016)
Omni Link is a hybrid visual novel featuring exploration, real-time space combat, and choices that affect gameplay and story. Find love across the stars, and…
Palinurus (2016)
A drifting traveler boards a one-man space shuttle destined for Alpha Centauri. This shuttle is piloted by Budapest, an artificial intelligence program…
Aselia the Eternal: The Spirit of Eternity Sword (2011)
With his sister Kaori held hostage, Yuuto must fight as an Etranger, a warrior of power, and take up the sword to fight alongside the beautiful female Spirits…
Nekopara Vol. 4 (2020)
Despite the popularity of, "La Soleil", Kashou's father continues to disapprove of it. Determined to get his father to approve of him, Kashou journeys to…
Monster Prom (2018)
You have three weeks to get a date for Monster Prom! Go through absurd and funny situations, raise your stats and seduce one of your classmates. Beautiful art,…
Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms (2014)
Spring is the flowering season, the season of the cherry blossoms. It is the time for first meetings and partings, when the buds start sprouting. Yuuma is a…
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi (2018)
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to…
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