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.

2093

games

platforms

Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

Planetarian ～Chiisana Hoshi no Yume～

PS2 2006-08-24

Boku no Taisetsu na Mono

WIN 2005-09-22

Aqua

ANDR 2015-04-10

Along the Edge

LIN 2016

Divine Slice of Life

WIN 2015-10-23

Uta no * Prince-Sama♪ All Star

PSP 2013-03-07

Ayumi-Chan Monogatari : Jisshaban

9801 1995-01-12

Asuka 3

9801 ? *

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni ~Tatarigoroshi

WIN 2003-08

Perfect Blue

9801 ? *

Aikagi ~Hidamari to Kanojo no Heyagi~

IOS 2014-09-26

Battle Girls

LIN 2016

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

The first Visual novel video game was released in 1986.

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

Parent group

Adventure

Child group

Kinetic novel

compare with these groups

Related site

Visual novel at Wikipedia

Platforms

Linux		1124
Windows		373
NEC PC9801		232
PSP		55
PS Vita		50
Mac OS X		41
PS2		22
Dreamcast		17
PS		16
GBA		11
Android		10
X68000		10
MSX2		10
Nintendo DS		10
MS-DOS		9
PS4		9
PS3		8
NEC PC8801		8
PC Engine		7
FM Towns		7
iOS		6
X360		6
3DS		4
C64		4
Apple II E		4
Wii		3
DVD player		3
Saturn		3
Amiga		3
Atari ST		2