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.
2017
games
49platforms
Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

9801 1997-02-21

X360 2009-10-15

9801 1996-08-02

VITA 2018-03-22

9801 1989

PSP 2011-06-23

PS1 1999-03-25

9801 ? *

WIN 2008-02-29

DC 2002-08-29

WIN 2009-03-27
The first video game about Visual novel was released in 1986.
Sekai Project, Alice Soft and 07th Expansion has published most of these games
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.
Parent group
AdventureChild group
Kinetic novelcompare with these groups