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.

2016

games

platforms

Name variations: NVL, ADV, AVG

Harem Hospital

WIN 2008-03-07

Trauma Center: Under the Knife

NDS 2005-06-30

Cosmic Psycho

9801 1991-09-21

Fuuraiki

PS1 2001

Ayakashi H

WIN 2006-09-29

Bigaku Yurika & Asuna

WIN 2008-10-24

Crimson Gray : Dusk and Down

WIN 2018-10-06

9801 1990-08-10

WIN 2003-07-25

WIN 2008-01-25

LIN 2016

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		342
NEC PC9801		212
PSP		54
PS Vita		47
Mac OS X		41
PS2		22
Dreamcast		17
PS		15
GBA		11
MSX2		10
MS-DOS		9
X68000		9
Nintendo DS		9
Android		9
PS4		8
NEC PC8801		8
PS3		8
PCE CD		7
iOS		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