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Genre – Sci-fi, Thriller, Action Play Time – 30 hours Developer – Mages VNDB Steam
A Future That Could Not Be Saved
Struggling long and hard against fate only to find out you are the person who killed the one you love is enough to break a man and break Okabe Rintarou it did. Now he drifts through life in a world he knows is doomed to a hellish end. However, fate
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Genre – School Life, Comedy, Romance Play Time – 10-15 per game Developer – Minato Soft VNDB
When Only Characters Remain
Once a game series has given all the stories it can, what remains to be extracted from it? Perhaps you expand the world by adding a new setting or maybe you introduce an exciting new threat. The answer the Majikoi A games have settled on is to f
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Genre – Urban Fantasy, Suspense, Horror, Action Play Time – 30 hours Developer – Type Moon VNDB
Will It Disappear At Dawn?
The remake of Tsukihime was once considered a dead project by the fanbase due to how long it took to show any results to the point of being a running joke. Even when it finally did produce something the resulting visual novel only covered the fi
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Genre - Horror, Yuri Play Time - 25 hours Developer - Success Steam VNDB
Shaped By Inevitable Bonds
Being bound by the red string of fate is a common trope in Japanese romance stories and at first glance you might assume that Akai Ito would follow these conventions given its emphasis on yuri. However, nothing could be further from the truth as the game takes this rom
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Genre – Supernatural, Action, Mystery Play Time – 9 hours per game Developer – Palette Steam VNDB
No Power Without Consequence
Everyone wants superpowers and think themselves far more capable of using them than the fictional heroes from comics or movies, but what they rarely consider is that for every hero there must be a monster and this monster will be destructive to
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Genre – Action, Post-Apocalypse, Supernatural Play Time – 35 hours Developer – Purple Software Steam VNDB
Beneath the Sakura
Once the apocalypse is over and all the damage is done, will the world be a peaceful place? And what of those who come after, how will they adapt? These are the questions Kunado Chronicles opens with and it uses them as the foundations up
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Genre – Mystery, Detective, Sci-fi Play Time – 30 hours Developer – Spike Chunsoft Steam
One Eye Lost And Another Gained
Found wandering in the street with a missing eye and no memories, Date is taken in by a woman calling herself Boss, given a new eye/partner Aibo and takes up the role of detective. Now years later he finds himself investigating the murder of a
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Genre – Sci-fi, Action, Mecha Play Time - 22 hours Developer – Love In Space Steam
Return From Exile
A fall from grace changes a man and exile from all he has ever known can break him. Such is the state of Kayto Shields as the curtain rises on the fourth game in the Sunrider series. This is the tale of how he pulls himself up from the pit he has fallen into, but thi
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Genre – Mystery, Social Deduction, Thriller Play Time – 20 hours Developer - Petit Depotto Steam VNDB
With Knives Out and Masks On
Trapping a group of people in a remote location and forcing them to into a game of social deduction is a premise with a surprising among of interesting scenarios to give despite how simple it is at its core. We have death games like
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Genre – Yuri, Modern Fantasy Play Time – 6 hours Developer – YuriEureka Steam VNDB
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
In most settling magic is normally a force for good and even when it is not, the protagonist is special enough to make the most of it regardless. T
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Genre - Mystery, Fantasy. Playtime - Roughly 20 Hours Each, 60 In Total Developer - Unison Shift: Blossom Steam VNDB
Three Ley-Lines Shall Reveal The Truth
Creating a trilogy of games is an ambitious undertaking and one where so many tiny things can go wrong and ruin the whole package. It needs a glue to hold it together and keep the player invested in the long term, s
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Genre – Otome, Mystery, Drama. Play Time – 35 hours. Developer – Otomate and Design Factory. Steam VNDB
Reinvigorating The Cliché
Using amnesia as plot device is a common tactic by many creators who want to put the protagonist on the same level as the player, but its use rarely goes beyond being an excuse for exposition. Enter Amnesia: Memories, as you might have been a
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Genre – Sci-fi, Mecha, LGBTQ+. Play Time – 8 hours. Developer - Pillow Fight Games. Steam VNDB
Finding Heaven
There is a certain beauty to the simple impulse to say, “Wow that is so cool”. It is a short phrase filled with an innocent emotion many of us lose as we get older and the realities of life turn everything into a grey soup. An adult is meant to be mature and sensi
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Genre - Comedy. Play Time - 15 hours. Developer - WhitePowder Steam VNDB
Always Be Happy!
Most visual novels use comedy in some form, be it a joke to break tension or a scene to make the player empathise with the characters, but few commit to it as the single focus of their identity. This is for a good reason, humour is subjective and as such making a comedy game with a wi
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Genre – Superpowers, Action, Multiple Route Mystery. Play Time – 50 hours. Developer - Akatsuki WORKS. Steam VNDB
It Started With Fire
The quest for revenge is a time worn tale which has assumed many forms and is notoriously difficult to get right. It can be a struggle to get the audience to empathise with a character who is seeking revenge, especially when
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Genre - Crime/Police, Otome, Romance. Play Time - 30 hours. Developer - Otomate, Design Factory. Nintendo Eshop VNDB
A Story of Light and Dark
Fandiscs are difficult to get right. Sitting in a strange midpoint between sequel and expansion of the original game, they have to balance the desire for more of the same with the sprinkling of something new they need justify their
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Genre – Science Fantasy. Playtime – 6 Hours. Developer – ALICE IN DISSONANCE. Publisher – Phoenixx. VNDB
Before The Storm
LIGHTKRAVETE marks ALICE IN DISSONANCE’S first new fault title in seven years and this gap has lead to a substantial change in their overall style. Gone are the static character portraits, now each character has their own live 2d style model which moves as they spea
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Genre – Slice of Life, Romance. Playtime – 40 hours. Developer – Yuzusoft. Publisher – NekoNyan and Hikari Field. VNDB
A Second Chance
Dying is never pleasant, especially when you have lingering regrets. Takamine Kousei’s death is as sudden as his life was unremarkable and in his final moment he wishes his life could have been more. However, this is not the end for Kousei as he finds hims