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.

3482
games
56
platforms

Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

NVL and AVG/ADV relate to how text is displayed on screen and are irrelevant for this tag. For the curious NVL refers to text occupying full screen with multiple lines of dialog and description occupying same space while the others refer to part-screen where they function more like speech and thought bubbles.

The first Visual novel video game was released in 1973.

Atelier Kaguya, Sekai Project and Parthenon published most of these games.

Parent group

Adventure

Child group

Kinetic novel

Related groups

Game genre
Dating simulation, Gamebook

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Platforms

Windows 1492
Linux 1134
NEC PC9801 247
PSP 88
PS Vita 54
PS2 46
Mac OS X 41
PS 40
Dreamcast 29
X68000 28
FM Towns 25
DVD player 18
Nintendo DS 18
PS4 16
NEC PC8801 15
MS-DOS 15
PS3 13
Android 13
X360 12
Flash 12
GBA 12
MSX2 11
MSX 11
Saturn 9
iOS 9
Switch 8
PC Engine CD 7
PC Engine 5
3DS 5
C64 4

By year

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