Visual Novel

Kaen Seibo: The Virgin on Megiddo

Single player

Adventure

anime

Dreamcast

First person

Kaen Seibo is a Japanese-style adventure which relies largely on conversations and the choices you make during them. However, the game also contains elements of Western-style adventuring. There are items that must be found, picked up and used at appropriate moments. There are areas where you can move through a 3D-like environment, viewing it from first-person perspective. During the dialogues, you also have commands that are accessible through a menu. There are also segments with a time limit.

Science fiction

At Seiryou high school, second year student Masamura Kouji leads a stready, but busy life, alongside with humble and quiet childhood friend Ritsuki Saya and senior student Nishizuku Ruuna.

One day, a transfer student, Kasuga Mizuki, appears and hands over a mysterious crystal while uttering enigmatic words : "Please remember...".

While being certain the two of them never met, the main protagonist feels they somehow did. A peculiar connection?

Missing Blue

MissingBlue

multiple endings

modern day

choices

PlayStation 2

Missing Blue is a visual novel for PlayStation 2.

Romance

Takeshi Shinonome is a private detective. One day, he meets a girl named Ayumu out in the rain. Ayumu's sister, Marie, and Takeshi went to the same high school. She asks him to investigate rumors concerning her husband. Takeshi finds evidence that her husband is having an affair with Ako Sonomura. Later, Ayumu's father asks Takeshi to investigate her private life. He is a well known politician and is afraid of having a scandal during the upcoming general election.

Soon after Takeshi starts investigating, Ayumu is confronted with an extremely dangerous situation. Is her father's enemy behind this? As Takeshi tries to find out who is putting Ayumu in danger, he discovers a new drug is behind the entire problem. Murders become rampant. The new drug is constantly tied to the murders, but there is not enough evidence to prove it. Will the beautiful girls he becomes involved with help him solve the mystery?

Chain: The Lost Footprints

Chain ~ The Lost Footprints

Ikura GDL

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Text

Erotic

Mystery

Private Nurse

mother is distant. Even with all of this, he thinks of himself as a pretty normal guy, except that he's completely dependent on his childhood friend, Ayano, who enjoys taking care of him while his mother is away.

One day, Hiroki's mom calls and tells him, "I'm hiring a 'private nurse' for you", but Hiroki strongly objects. He doesn't even know what a "private nurse" is, but he knows he doesn't want one ... until she's standing in his doorway, dressed in a sexy nurse uniform.

"Hi, I'm Maria. I'm your new private nurse!". She promises to cure Hiroki of his disease within a month. While unbelievable, he tentatively accepts and the treatment begins. Her methods are very "hands on", and Ayano watches with mixed feelings as Maria treats him. As his treatment intensifies so do feelings of love and jealousy. What kind of treatment will Maria use to finally cure Hiroki, and will Ayano just quietly watch and do nothing?

Flower

flower

Femme Fatale

femme fatale

visual novel

mystery

choose your own adventure

eroge

murder mystery

sexual content

map movement

many choices

more than seven endings

Taisho era.
Main character is a detective in Tokyo.
He returns to hometown to dispose of his father's legacy.
Local policeman tells him about a case of girl death from illness at a boarding school, but under suspicious conditions.
Detective decides to investigate the incident as he needs to stay at the town for some time anyway.

Simple 2000 Series Vol. 67: The Suiri - Soshite Daremo Inakunatta

It was the season of dancing cherry blossoms when the spring break was about to end.

I transferred to Konohana Academy.

I was supposed to spend my remaining two years of high school life quietly at this school.

But that modest hope was shattered.

--Just before the opening ceremony, a teacher was murdered.

A girl named Miako Tachibana forced me to cooperate in the investigation.

I soon become entangled in the sinister black shadow that shrouds the school.

Death threats are sent to those who have been captivated.

The legend of the Grim Reaper that has been passed down in the school.

Are the serial murders that occur one after another really the work of the Grim Reaper?

The truth will be revealed at.......

Konohana: True Report

KONOHANA:TrueReport

high school

male protagonist

suspense

made in japan

PlayStation

Konohana: True Report is the first entry of the mystery visual novel series Konohana, taking place in a high school featuring Meguru Momoi as a protagonist, a second-year student who just moved to Konohana high school. As things would have it, what you thought to be the peaceful period until graduation turns into a suspense thriller.

Thriller

The year is 1935.
In a beautiful island country surrounded by the Atlantic ocean in Europe called Kuchen there is a famous high class boarding school called Rosenstolz Academy.

The protagonist is a new transfer student who spends two years at the academy meeting new people and experiencing many events.
Her goal is to improve herself and be able to confess to her beloved at the graduation party.

Tanbi Musou: Meine Liebe

romance

female protagonist

otome

game boy advance

Game Boy Advance

Tanbi Musou: Meine Liebe is an Adventure game, developed by Mobile 21 and published by Konami, which was released in Japan in 2001.

True Love Story 3

TLS3

dating simulation

Unlike the previous works, this play is set from high school to junior high school, and the player becomes a third-year male student of Misora Junior High School, and the play period is one year until junior high school graduation.

Drama

Brave Soul

Role-playing (RPG)

magic

adult

dating

boss fight

leveling up

non-player character

moral decisions

new game plus

black magic

Bird view / Isometric

It is a world very different from ours, a world in which magic exists, a world where peasants labor under the burden of heavy taxes imposed upon them by the unfair rulers of the land. Although the commoners have a difficult lot, there are those among them with the strength to use his sword and make a name for himself -- an adventurer. To be an adventurer is the dream of every peasant.

The story details the journey of a young man who was raised in the countryside of Souvania, on the continent of Valencia. Disowned by his own father and forced to make his way in life, he chooses to become a Hunter, a mercenary who accepts jobs for a variety of adventures. Heading into town to officially join the Hunter’s Guild with his dragon Shell at his side, he happens across a mysterious girl who looks strikingly like the Moon Goddess.

The Moon Goddess... Ever since he was young, a beautiful girl appears before him on nights of a full moon. Because of the mysterious manner of her appearance, he gave her a unique name. With the mysterious girl Alicia and dragon Shell at his side, as well as new characters he will join with later, our hero embarks on many bold adventures. But will he ever be able to solve the bizarre mystery of the beautiful Moon Goddess standing in the lake...?

Action

Comedy

Riddle in Riddle

Our setting is 19th century Europe; a metropolis, where among the advancements of
industrial revolution, prosperity and corruption live side by side. Our hero runs a detective agency here in a city, that would remind one of London.

Everything from simple robberies, exterminations by organized crime, to incidents connected to the royal family come our hero's way. Many different types of requests are brought to Anthony.
In the beginning, Anthony had to solve the problems by himself; however with his growing business, he brings in a female partner to help him out. With this new partner's help, cases are cracked much more effectively. Special events also begin to happen with this added intimacy.

This is a crime and mystery game, where trouble brings more trouble, and encounters bring even more encounters. Will you be able to solve all of the cases with your beautiful partner?

Take on the role of a boy with a crush on Dejiko who, along with Dejiko, Puchiko, and Rabi-en-Rose, gets sucked through a dimensional vortex into a fantasy world. The player finds himself alone with Dejiko in a forest, and she's lost her memory. In this game, players are given a very different view of Dejiko, as the amnesia makes her innocent and shy.

Di Gi Charat Fantasy

DiGi Charat Fantasy

amnesia

Di Gi Charat Fantasy is a visual novel adventure game developed and published by Broccoli. The PC version was released on February 22, 2001 and the Dreamcast version was released on September 6, 2001. The game was ported to PlayStation 2 on November 20, 2003 as Di Gi Charat Fantasy Excellent.

Fantasy

In a system created by Gaea, three planets exist: Flaithis, akin to the Heavens, where the angels live, Annwn, akin to Hell, where the demons live, and the Earth-like Rirudahna which lies between the two. Flaithis and Annwn have been at war for many years, and it isn't any surprise that the peaceful Rirudahna, which falls between the two, would be drug into the battle.

A young boy, Liam, who is a student on Rirudahna, is visited by Lugh, the angelic ruler of Flaithis, to find fragrances and mix a perfume with the power to bring the holy forces and demonic forces together in mediation and thus bring peace, and Liam accepts this task. He is visited by angels from Flaithis that aid him in bringing him the scents of their homeland to help his quest, but the demons of Annwn also find out about this plot, and decide to work their own strategy against it, also visiting Liam and bringing him the fragrances of Annwn.

Can Liam create the peace-bringing legendary fragrance "Naveri"? Or will he instead find himself falling for one of his angelic or demonic visitors?

Fragrance Tale

demons

voice acting

angels

boy x boy romance only

boys love

A visual novel for PlayStation 2, PC and SEGA Dreamcast.

Vampirdzhija Vjedogonia

Kyuuketsu Senki Vjedogonia

One night the protagonist sees a beautiful woman in distress; he tries to help her but she bites him. She turns out to be a vampire! And now he will turn into a vampire too, unless he finds her again and destroy her first. So he joins with a group of vampire-hunters...

Angelic Concert

Xbox

You're a DJ, if DJ's existed in the medieval magical setting that the story is based on, who happen to be the 'music' behind the voice of the main character. Now, her aim in life is to aim higher in her musical career by entering the Angelic Concert. The winner receives fame, fortune and adventure on the short but well-drawn way to the concert.

The game mixes AVG-style text with musical minigames.

Missing Parts: The Tantei Stories

crime

The first entry in the cult classic adventure game series by F.O.G.

Tantei Shinshi Dash!

Tantei Shinshi Dash! is an Adventure game. Thist visual novel starts you off in the room belonging to a down and out detective mulling over what a dull and sad life he has.

Text Adventure: Xianghua-hen

Soul Calibur Text Adventure 

SoulCalibur Text Adventure

Text Adventure: Xianghua's Story

Visual Memory Unit / Visual Memory System

SoulCalibur Text Adventure is visual novel of SoulCalibur, centered around the Xianghua. It was released for VMU as an online download after the release of SoulCalibur, only in Japan.

Shuuchakueki

Air After Story

There are three stories about departure and separation, each focusing on a different heroine of Air.

Historical

Tsukihime

vampire

erotic games

fan translation

groundhog day scenario

This story is about a young boy named Tohno Shiki who, after experiencing a traumatic accident, wakes up in the hospital with the ability to see lines and cracks in every surface and being. These lines, when traced with any sharp or blunt edge, will be permanently cut. As he is forced to see these lines everywhere, Shiki is distraught until he meets a mage girl who gives him glasses that allow him to live a normal life.

Years later, after living in a relative's home, the death of his father has him summoned back to the mansion he left years ago. There he must learn to live with his younger sister and two maid girls.

One day Shiki's life takes a turn for the worst when, on the way to school, he meets a blonde woman and he's overcome with the urge to kill her.

Horror

Never 7: The End of Infinity

Never7: The End of Infinity

Android

PlayStation Portable

Never 7: The End of Infinity is the first title in the Infinity series, and is followed by Ever 17: The Out of Infinity, Remember 11: The Age of Infinity, 12Riven: The Psi-Climinal of Integral, and Code_18.

In the game, the player takes the role of Makoto Ishihara, a college student who attends a seminar camp on an island together with three other students; he also befriends three other people who he meets on the island. The game takes place over the course of a week, and consists of the player reading the story, occasionally making choices that affect the direction of the plot; on the sixth day, one of the female characters dies, and the game moves back in time to the beginning, letting the player use knowledge from the first set of six days to make new choices, to try to prevent the character's death.

Pia Carrot e Youkoso!! 2.2

Game Boy Color

A continuation of the story in Pia Carrot 2.

Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut

Metal Slader Glory Director's Cut

space travel

mecha

japan only

wii u virtual console

Wii U

Super Famicom

In the year 2062, Earth-based mechanic Tadashi and his girlfriend discover a mech from a war eight years prior with an ominous message stored in its memory suggesting Earth is in danger. They travel to nearby space stations and colonies to investigate its origins. Featuring redrawn graphics, scenes that had been cut for lack of storage space, and different music than the original, the Director's Cut of Metal Slader Glory was the final officially released game for the Super Famicom.

Leviath has been defeated and the cosmos is restored to order. The Queen of the Sacred Beast Cosmos (the protagonist) returns to her realm to watch over its progress. She and her aide, Rachel, work with their established Royal Institute to keep their region harmonious.

Three years after the events of Angelique Tenku no Requiem, a large continent suddenly collides with the lone planet and the Queen disappears into a mysterious mist. Rachel implores the Sacred Bird Cosmos for their help, yet they too fall victim to the mist. As the friends reunite, they stand before a mysterious silver tree on the foreign continent known as Arcadia. The protagonist alone hears a voice pleading for her to "release the seal", soon discovering that the brittle continent is on the verge of collapse within its pocket dimension. The Queen of the Sacred Bird Cosmos uses her powers to create a barrier to stall the destruction to occur in 115 days. The protagonist has to cultivate the continent within that time to save its trapped inhabitants and release the mysterious seal.

Angelique Trois

Angelique Trois: Aizouban

Simulator

dialogue trees

female protagonists

games for girls

Angelique trois is the first Neoromance title to be on the PlayStation 2 and so far the only Angelique entry which presents the game in 3D models. This story and its setting acts as the spiritual predecessor to the series's major alternate continuity, Neo Angelique.

trois is the first title in the series to begin crediting developers for their work as opposed to the group labeling, Ruby Party. Yoko Hori served as the general director and Yasuno Shihoro is the director. Mahito Yokota composed and arranged the music.

The Premium Box edition includes eighteen character cards with short character messages on them and a memorial manual.

Sometime in the near future, the South American rain forest serves as the backdrop of a war between two factions - those who support the Baldr governing technology and those who don't. To ensure that the skirmishes and conflicts don't expand, the BS-OSA or Baldr System - Observation Structure Army is set up to police the region. Inside the Army is a special unit known as SERR14 (Observation Structure Army South American Experimental Riot Regiment the 14th) which is comprised of elite soldiers and operatives such as Sergey Kirkland and Dullahan Cuningham.

Baldr Bullet

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

cyberpunk

A Action / VN game by Giga's Team Baldrhead, prequel to Baldrhead and Baldr Fist.

Warfare

Sentimental Graffiti 2

The second game takes place in a world in which the first protagonist died in a traffic accident during his journey. The game takes place in a college town in which the original 12 girls have gathered to attend. The protagonist, Shiina Kouhei, is a second-year college student and a member of the Photography Club. He has been tasked with the job of finding his own model for the photo exhibition at the upcoming school festival, and thus turns to one of the now emotionally scarred girls in hopes of convincing them to become his model.

Snow Drop

Snow drop is a beautiful European herb known for bearing nodding white flowers that often appear while the snow is on the ground, despite the cold of winter around it. Filled with symbolism of "hope" and "consolation," the beautiful flower is the central theme in Snow Drop, the romantic wintertime bishoujo adventure from Peach Princess!

You are Minoru Sasazuka, age 19, a bit of a dreamer with a difficult tendency of not being able to make decisions when your heart is involved. A normal Japanese boy, trying to get into college, you've got a handsome physique that should make you popular with girls, but your occasional penchant for romanticism drives them away.

Invited on a winter dream ski trip with a group of friends, you head for a ski lodge for some winter skiing and fun. For you, it's a journey home, since you frequented this particular lodge since when you were young. With you are Kyoka, a very special childhood friend of yours, her stylish sister Keika, and your sister, Honami.

At the lodge, you enjoy the hospitality of the owner, Kasumi, a competent woman with a tinge of sadness in her eyes. Also at the lodge is the lovely Shizuka, the mysterious helper who has many secrets.

As the story develops, you are confronted with the reality that Kyoka, your friend since childhood, loves you. You've suspected this, but haven't ever been able to face this before now, with the magical and romantic winter snow all around you. At the same time, you are strangely attracted to the quiet and romantic Shizuka-chan -- which will you choose? Although many erotic temptations are in store in the quiet mountain retreat, and there are many paths you can choose, you must be true to your heart.

Marionette Company 2 Chu!

raising sim

PlayStation 3

A plan to migrate humanity to the planet "Elan" is created, the Elan Project.
In order to select suitable people to join the project many boys and girls with great mental ability are gathered in the research city Alpha.
The protagonist is one of the best candidates, and while acquiring training they interact with the other candidates.

While conversing with the other candidates there aren't just the usual conversation options. It is also possible to choose Happy/Normal/Sad/Mad emotional type responses.

Elan Plus

Élan Plus

multiple protagonists

dating simulator

PlayStation Vita

Elan Plus is a Strategy game, developed and published by Visco, which was released in Japan in 2000.

It adds scenario corrections, new graphics, gallery mode, in game load, and reset functions.

Memories Off Pure

love triangle

tragic hero

no sexual content

other perspectives

Neo Geo Pocket Color

Memories Off: Pure is a prequel to Memories Off. The events of the game take place three years before those of the previous game, when the protagonist Tomoya Mikami was still attending middle school. The game primarily revolves around his relationships with his childhood friend Yue Imasaka and Ayaka Hizuki, whose tragic fate is mentioned in the first game.

Gameplay-wise, the prequel is identical to the preceding game, with the gameplay being reduced to occasional decision-making that influences the course of the story and ultimately leads it to different endings.

The protagonist "Sakuya" is a being created by magic, awakening in Japan's magical research institute. His creator Shizuma Kusakabe tells him that he will spend 91 days in the mansion learning skills and interacting with different people and that he will be tested to see what growth he achieves.

Kakure Tsuki

sengoku period

nameable protagonist

boy x boy romance

Kakure Tsuki is a visual novel released in 2000 for PC.

Infinity

The origin of the Infinity series of visual novels.

Pochi is left alone by her owner. How will she cope with her newfound desperation?

Animal Magnetism: Pochi no Daisuki

Animal Magnetism ~Pochi no Daisuki~

card battles

nsfw

Animal Magnetism: Pochi no Daisuki is a PC visual novel by Gainax.

Harlem Blade II: Dark Angel

nudity

Our guy left his childhood girl and went to war against a monster after his father got killed in it. When he came back a year later, he was just in time to see his childhood girl taken away by the monster's army. He joined the resistance and started to find her. Within 30 days, he can help girls who will join him in the fight.

The game takes place in Ikoma Aku Torres Actress School, where different girls go to grow their perfomance abilities. One night, when a performing is taking place, the owner of the school jump off a roof to the death. The police thinks that is just a suicide, but the motive is still a mystery, so the people on charge of the school decide to hire a private detective to investigate.

Gensou no Artemis: Actress School Mystery Adventure

Artemis of Illusion

Gensou no Altemis

A first person perspective adventure game in which the player takes the role of a detective that has to investigate a murder in an actress school.

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