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.

1914

games

platforms

Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

Dragon City X Sitei

9801 1991

Eidolon

LIN 2007-04-01

Steins;Gate

PSP 2011-06-23

Pokky 2 Kaijin Aka Manteau no Chousen

9801 1989

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Rumbling Hearts

PS2 2003-05-01

Crystal Rinal

9801 1994

AstralAir no Shiroki Eien: White Eternity

VITA 2016-09-22

Silent Möbius - Case Titanic

9801 1990-08-10

Uta no * Prince-Sama♪ Debut

PSP 2012-05-24

Charade

9801 1995-10-27

Lagnalock

WIN 2001-10-12

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

Sekai Project, 07th Expansion and Alice Soft 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.

Often used for eroge.

See also: gamebooks, dating sim

Parent group

Adventure

Child group

Kinetic novel

Related site

Visual novel at Wikipedia

Platforms

Linux		1112
Windows		280
NEC PC9801		196
PSP		53
PS Vita		47
Mac OS X		41
PS2		18
Dreamcast		17
PS		15
GBA		11
MS-DOS		9
PS4		8
PS3		8
Nintendo DS		8
Android		8
MSX2		7
iOS		6
PCE CD		6
X360		5
FM Towns		4
C64		4
3DS		4
Wii		3
NEC PC8801		3
X68000		3
Saturn		3
Amiga		3
Apple II E		3
SNES		2
Atari ST		2