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.

2009

games

platforms

Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

[Phase Shift]

WWW 2014-06-12

Bounty Hunter Ludy

9801 1996-10-25

Power Slave

9801 ? *

Blue Sky Blue - Sora wo Mau Tsubasa

DC 2003-06-26

Memories Off: AfterRain

PSP 2009-06-25

Reserve

9801 1990

Exciting Milk

9801 1996-02-01

Baiyakuzumi ~Reijou Shimai~

WIN 2003-06-27

Snow ~Portable~

PSP 2007-08-16

Beach Bounce

WIN 2015-08-14

Aneimo 2: Second Stage

WIN 2007-04-27

CC Hospital

WIN 2006-03-24

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

compare with these groups

Related site

Visual novel at Wikipedia

Platforms

Linux		1112
Windows		342
NEC PC9801		211
PSP		54
PS Vita		47
Mac OS X		41
PS2		22
Dreamcast		17
PS		15
GBA		11
MS-DOS		9
Nintendo DS		9
Android		9
PS4		8
MSX2		8
PS3		8
X68000		7
NEC PC8801		7
iOS		6
PCE CD		6
X360		5
FM Towns		5
C64		4
3DS		4
DVD player		3
Saturn		3
Amiga		3
Apple II E		3
Wii		3
Atari ST		2