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Romeo and Juliet isn't a visual novel. 

Shizune is a fucking awful heroine with an awful route.
Just skip her route. It's not worth it.

https://vndb.org/c18937

Finally, LoveKami (eop edition) has been released! Play through a variety of diverse character routes, including the one with the big tits, the one with the big tits, and the one with the bigger tits!
LoveKami is by far the best eroge all ages release of this year. The numbers don't lie!
VNDB
Steam
Moenovel
 

Finally, LoveKami (eop edition) has been released! Play through a variety of diverse character routes, including the one with the big tits, the one with the big tits, and the one with the bigger tits!
LoveKami is by far the best eroge all ages release of this year. The numbers don't lie!
VNDB
Steam
Moenovel
 

F/SN

40.2%! (Let's hope Sekai doesn't buy this one out too.)

This isn't the "end of the eroge market" or anything. Fandisks and nukige will always sell well, both in the West and in Japan. Of course, good visual novels will sell well, but fandisks and adaptations are safer to sell, and safer to buy.
Besides, the games at the top of these lists are going to be recent eroge, not kamige. When you manage to find an eroge released in the last two months that looks much better than these, be sure to post it, because I won't believe you otherwise.

The issue is that Clannad has a lot of ridiculous choices to get on some of the routes-to this day, I don't understand how you would figure out on your own that you need to talk to Nagisa to get on almost any route, and that one old teacher's route just plain doesn't make any sense.
It's similar to Root Double's A route or Cross Channel, where it's very easy to screw up without realizing that you're doing anything wrong. I'd recommend at least looking at a guide so you can figure out who has routes, if nothing else.

I even spent my custom Steam Awards nomination slot on it!

Even this isn't quite 100% cut and dried.  Sure, right now, it's obvious: there's no ero version to be censored.  But that doesn't mean they can't have censored anything.  All censorship requires is that content be suppressed because some might find it objectionable.  MoeNovel is deliberately choosing not to bring over adults-only titles for exactly that reason, probably for marketing reasons.
If it turns out that this game gets a Japanese release, especially if that Japanese release happens almost at the same time as the US release, and that Japanese version is 18+, it will be fairly reasonable to presume the title was conceived with the dual-release in mind, and that therefore the content was censored from the Western release.  I believe others in this thread have already raised that possibility.
Hell, it wouldn't be wrong, necessarily, to claim that this game was censored even if that doesn't happen.  Pulltop makes eroge.  It seems like a pretty reasonable assumption that a game like this probably would have had ero-scenes if it were intended for the Japanese market.  Pulltop chose not to even write the ero-scenes in the first place, where otherwise they probably would have, to avoid controversy from objectionable content.  In the courts, they call this a chilling effect.  It would be extremist, but usually even extremist positions make sense and are defensible from a certain point of view.

Oh, but I am!
Admittedly, censored isn't quite the right word. This game just gives off all sorts of pandering vibes to me that make me uncomfortable with the people declaring "at least it's better than IMHHW"! I'll wait before passing any more judgement on this game, though I probably won't be picking it up due to the heroines alone-honestly, who designed those characters?

Oh, but I am!
Admittedly, censored isn't quite the right word. This game just gives off all sorts of pandering vibes to me that make me uncomfortable with the people declaring "at least it's better than IMHHW"! I'll wait before passing any more judgement on this game, though I probably won't be picking it up due to the heroines alone-honestly, who designed those characters?

https://vndb.org/s5634

According to VNDB, there are 413 VNs with imoutos and 337 with anekis.
So while imoutos are more common, (because they're an eroge trope,) onee-sans are definitely not dying out. After all, you need them to balance out the filthy lolicons.

10/10 bait.
In all seriousness, it seems obvious that you haven't played an awful lot of visual novels. Trying to compare the atmosphere in Rewrite with School Days/Summer Days is honestly just not fair, considering they attempt completely different things. Rewrite and School Days aren't even close to being in the same genre, and have completely different presentation styles.
Also, pretty much everything I've seen generally agrees that the Lucia route suffered the most from the bloat problem you complain about. None of the Tanaka routes, (with one possible exception,) are nearly as long as Lucia's, although I have to admit her route suffers less from the Ryukishi irrelevance syndrome than say, Umineko.
I recommend coming back to it once you've played a bit more, because while Rewrite certainly isn't perfect, it is very good and is my favorite KEY game of those that I've actually read.

Romeo and Juliet isn't a visual novel. 

I'll be surprised if anyone manages to get that one, considering like five people on this forum have played it.
Yup! It's Tsui no Sora. Not only is it untranslated, but it's completely unhookable as far as I can tell, due to arcane 90s engine structures. It's first on my list when I actually bother to learn Japanese.
There's a subbed version of the OVA floating around, but I'm 99% sure it's the worst commercially released anime ever released. The animation is awful, the voice acting sounds amateur at best, and the art is on the level of MS Paint. I almost recommend watching it for the pure humor value.

Romeo and Juliet isn't a visual novel. 

Romeo and Juliet isn't a visual novel. 

Extremely minor non-plot spoilers.
 

This game makes me feel like vomiting my guts out and daiing.
It's pretty good. You should play it.

I have no interest in Grisaia, so I'm probably not picking this up.
That being said, releasing this before Eden in the West is probably a really bad idea. Episodic games in general seem to be what Japanese companies think we want, despite the fact their performance over here is never very good, with the exception of When they Cry.
I just hope the whole "short $9.99" VN thing dies out soon; it's counter-intuitive to the history and the structure of the medium. The only way to sell visual novels to the majority of Steam users is by making glorified nukige, then bribing some popular streamers to play it. Anything else will just alienate both Steam users and the core audience that actually buys the games.