Visual novels have long ventured to places that more mainstream games avoid. A genre-cum-medium of interactive stories that often feature static anime-influenced art, they also tend to be more ...

The best visual novels are the ones with engaging gameplay and memorable stories. There are well-known ones like Capcom's Ace Attorney series, but also some lesser-known ones that are still worth ...

Publisher Bushiroad Games has announced visual novel The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Midsummer’s Mirage and the Journey of Dreams for Switch. It will launch in 2025 in Japan.

Arcaea developer lowiro has announced In Falsus, a new visual novel-style rhythm game coming to PC via Steam in early 2026. The game will tie “captivating music gameplay” with “a … ...

Oh, and fair warning: The art is cute. The story, however, is pretty violent. It's definitely for adults. In Bad End Theater, you explore the stories of four protagonists with interlocking stories.

From the start, the lead developer of Crime Opera: The Butterfly Effect, Sean Bester, wanted his game to be different from the other games in Steam’s sea of often sexually-tinged romance and ...

The Steam version of Our Hometown in the Alley is available worldwide as of this writing with a price tag of $4.99 in the U.S., but the visual novel currently only supports the Japanese language ...

A new visual novel on Steam claims to prepare your US tax return--though you may want to think twice before putting your info in. By Steven T. Wright on March 23, 2023 at 7:55AM PDT.

No one’s doing choice-driven narrative like Scarlet Hollow, a combination horror visual novel and dating sim. And it just got a massive new update.

What makes visual novel Paranormasight so much fun to play through is a rich vein of subversion. The characters have plenty of delightful quirks, which reminds me of Capcom’s Phoenix Wright ...

A novel, at-home test was accurate and reliable in measuring near visual acuity and may be a helpful self-monitoring tool for patients with chronic ocular conditions or limited access to ...

As Japan Today reports (via GamesIndustry), the charges stem from Shinobu Yoshida's alleged uploading of three gameplay videos from the Japanese visual novel Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace.The ...