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.

1505

games

platforms

Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

Host Love

LIN 2006-06-01

XBLAZE Code:Embryo

VITA 2013-07-25

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri

PS2 2007-02

Bounty Hunter Ludy

9801 1996-10-25

Passengers on the Wind

IIGS 1988

fault -milestone one-

WIN 2013-08-12

Mizuiro

DC 2002-03-07

Nora to Koujo to Noraneko Heart

VITA 2017-09-28

The Best Eroge Ever

WIN 2007-11-04

Scar

9801 ? *

Kono Hareta Sora no Shita de

PS2 2005-03-31

Highschool Possession

WIN 2015-12-09

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		141
PS Vita		42
Mac OS X		40
PSP		30
PS2		15
Dreamcast		10
GBA		10
PS4		8
PS		8
PS3		8
NEC PC9801		7
Nintendo DS		7
MS-DOS		6
X360		5
iOS		4
C64		4
MSX2		4
Android		4
FM Towns		3
Amiga		3
Apple II E		3
3DS		3
Wii		3
NEC PC8801		3
X68000		2
Thomson		2
Atari ST		2
Amstrad CPC		2
Xbox One		2

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