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.

1484

games

platforms

Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei

WIN 2006-12

Ever17: The Out of Infinity

WIN 2011

VITA 2014-12-11

PS2 2004-12-28

WIN 2008-01-25

WIN 2015-08-14

Arcana Famiglia: La storia della Aracana

VITA 2015-12-23

Text - A Summer Story

LIN 2009-03-12

Steins;Gate

PSP 2011-06-23

Erika

9801 1991

Amnesia: Later x Crowd V. Edition

VITA 2014-10-16

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

Sekai Project, 07th Expansion and Winter Wolves 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		1108
Windows		135
Mac OS X		40
PS Vita		39
PSP		29
PS2		15
GBA		10
PS3		8
PS4		8
Nintendo DS		7
MS-DOS		6
NEC PC9801		6
PS		5
X360		5
C64		4
MSX2		4
Android		4
Dreamcast		4
iOS		4
Apple II E		3
3DS		3
Wii		3
NEC PC8801		3
FM Towns		3
Amiga		3
Xbox One		2
Mega Drive		2
Thomson		2
X68000		2
Atari ST		2

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