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.

1676

games

platforms

Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

SX1 1988-12-17

FM7 1988-12-03

VITA 2015-11-19

WIN 2010-08-27

PSP 2010-04-08

LIN 2013-04-08

Planetarian ～Chiisana Hoshi no Yume～

WIN 2004-11-29

Adventure of Liena

9801 1996-03-22

Ever17: The Out of Infinity

X360 2011-12-01

Rinne Tsukihime

GBA 2001

Beyond The Future -Fix The Time Arrows-

PSP 2011-12-08

Highschool Possession

WIN 2015-12-09

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		183
NEC PC9801		93
PSP		50
PS Vita		46
Mac OS X		40
PS2		17
Dreamcast		12
PS		11
GBA		10
PS3		8
Nintendo DS		8
PS4		8
MSX2		7
MS-DOS		7
Android		5
X360		5
C64		4
PCE CD		4
iOS		4
Amiga		3
Apple II E		3
3DS		3
Wii		3
NEC PC8801		3
X68000		3
FM Towns		3
Amstrad CPC		2
Xbox One		2
Mega Drive		2

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