Visual novel

Game genre theme

Sug-genre of adventure games. Easily confusable with dating sims with which visual novels share their outward appearance, but the emphasis is on non-gamelike elements and the lack of use of statistics or other numerical data.

1687

games

platforms

Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

5 Jikanme no Venus

9801 1995

Disgaea Infinite

PSP 2009-11-01

.heartbeats

LIN 2012-04-17

Akarui Mirai Wet And Messy 2nd time

WIN 2003-12-19

Adventure of Liena

9801 1996-03-22

Battle Girls

LIN 2016

To Heart 2 ~Another Days~

WIN 2008-02-29

Amgine Park

LIN 2005-02-27

Chäos;HEAd NoaH

VITA 2014-08-21

ZorkQuest: Assault on Egreth Castle

C64 1988

428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de

WII 2008-12-04

Norn9: Norn + Nonette Act Tune

VITA 2016-10-06

The first video game about Visual novel was released in 1986.

Sekai Project, 07th Expansion and Alice Soft has published most of these games

Often used for eroge.

See also: gamebooks, dating sim

Parent group

Adventure

Child group

Kinetic novel

Related site

Visual novel at Wikipedia

Platforms

Linux		1108
Windows		186
NEC PC9801		97
PSP		50
PS Vita		46
Mac OS X		41
PS2		17
Dreamcast		12
PS		11
GBA		10
Nintendo DS		8
PS4		8
PS3		8
MS-DOS		7
MSX2		7
Android		6
iOS		5
X360		5
C64		4
PCE CD		4
3DS		3
Wii		3
NEC PC8801		3
X68000		3
FM Towns		3
Amiga		3
Apple II E		3
Mega Drive		2
Atari ST		2
Saturn		2

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