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

platforms

Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

M Hard

9801 1997-02-21

Steins;Gate

X360 2009-10-15

Cherry Jam

9801 1996-08-02

Dance with Devils: My Carol

VITA 2018-03-22

9801 1989

PSP 2011-06-23

PS1 1999-03-25

9801 ? *

To Heart 2 ~Another Days~

WIN 2008-02-29

Ever17: The Out of Infinity

DC 2002-08-29

Boku no Te no Naka no Rakuen

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.

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		343
NEC PC9801		212
PSP		54
PS Vita		47
Mac OS X		41
PS2		22
Dreamcast		17
PS		15
GBA		11
MSX2		10
Nintendo DS		9
Android		9
MS-DOS		9
X68000		9
PS3		8
PS4		8
NEC PC8801		8
PCE CD		7
iOS		6
X360		5
FM Towns		5
3DS		4
C64		4
Wii		3
DVD player		3
Saturn		3
Amiga		3
Apple II E		3
Mega Drive		2