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

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

PECD 1994-08-06

Love Plus

NDS 2009-09-03

Bijin Kyoushi wa Shuuchi no Toriko

WIN 2012-11-15

Eden no Kaori

9801 1996-08-01

Yu-No - The girl at the Edge of the World

9801 1996-12-26

D-spray Biyaku de Motemote Kachou Dairi

WIN 2005-06-24

Really? Really!

WIN 2006-11-24

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Portable 2

PSP 2011-11-17

Eyeshield 21 - AmeFoot Yarouze! Ya! Ha!

PS2 2005

Akiko GOLD: Queen of Adult

9801 1994-12-22

Gokkun Athlete! Kyonyuu Medalist no Oshaburi

WIN 2012-09-28

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
Nintendo DS		9
Android		9
MS-DOS		9
X68000		9
NEC PC8801		8
PS3		8
PS4		8
PCE CD		7
iOS		6
FM Towns		5
X360		5
C64		4
3DS		4
Apple II E		3
Wii		3
DVD player		3
Saturn		3
Amiga		3
MSX		2