bakauchuujin

As the title suggest this is a list of the VNs released in english that has a physcial release. I personally love to have physcial copies of VNs as I like collecting things. I recently made a list with the VNs that have official english releases and figured I could use that to make this list. I have marked availablility with colour, red means no longer available, blue means officially available but hard to get (generally things like conventions) yellow means currently available but only for a short period and orange is not yet opened for pre order. Also if I make some mistakes when making the list please say so. Things that are marked as not available could potentially be found at places like Amazon or Ebay, since I didn't include pages like this for availability. There might be sales or discounts on some sites but not other sites, so if you are thinking of buying it and would rather save some money I would recommend to go through the sites selling it, mainly Mangagamer, Jlist and rightstufanime.
 
I guess I should also go a bit more into details about what I mean by limited time, this includes physicals that are only sold through a kickstarter within a limited time as well as titles that seem to go out of stock soon. 
MangaGamer  ( Store )
 
JAST USA  ( Store )
 
Sekai Project (Homepage)/Denpasoft
 
Front Wing (Homepage)
 
Other
 
Himeya Soft (Bankrupt)
 
Hirameki International (Quit the VN market)
 
Console
 

Here is a list of VNs officially released in english, I will likely not update this list anymore after August 2021 as I don't see much of a point in it anymore with improvements to the search function of vndb.
Orange text means confirmed for an official english release while yellow text means that a part has been released but not the entire VN.
I have also made a list with the ones with physical release, this list is sorted the same way as this but also has info on where the titles can be bought and if it is available 
List of physical english releases of VNs
MangaGamer (Store)
 
Sekai Project (Homepage)/Denpasoft (Store)
 
JAST USA (Store)
 
NekoNyan (Store)
 
Frontwing (Homepage)
 
Sol Press (Store)
 
Shiravune (Loves DRM, especially Denuvo)
 
Visual Arts
 
Fruitbat Factory (Store)
 
MoeNovel (Burn in hell)
 
Cherry Kiss Games (Homepage)
 
Winged Cloud
 
Degica
 
Aksys Games (Store)
 
XSEED Games (Store)
 
NIS America (Store NA, Store EU)
PQube
 
Others (Japanese)
 
Others (not japanese)
 
Himeya Soft (Bankrupt)
 
Hirameki International (Quit the VN market)
 
SakuraGame/Paradise Project (Machine translated, do not buy from them)
 

I think that one of the problems with VNs is that so many of the heavily recommended VNs are very long. So many of the ones that are really often recommended and very highly rated are 50-100 hour titles and I just don't think that getting into something where those types of titles are seen as an introduction is easy.
Another thing is how so many in the community tries highlight VNs as some sort of high art superior to every other medium and completely disregard anything part of the VN market that doesn't adhere to what they consider good, like calling moege and nukige trash and trying to make it out to be as if VNs would be way more amazing and mainstream had it not been for those damn genres.
I personally think that one of the ways to get people into VNs would be to actually get people into things like moege or nukige as I think there are a lot of people who would want harem anime and manga to actually have conclusive endings and based on the amount of 18+ doujins of popular characters there is a demand for ero content with characters you actually get emotionally attatched to during a story.
I think trying to highlight VNs as having good stories won't really do much as every medium has good stories to offer, I think instead it is important to highlight the things which makes VNs special and the types of content you either won't find in other mediums or you won't find done as well. Some I would highlight is integration of porn in the story, harem stories with branching routes and romantic development as well as mystery which can be enhanced by route and choice systems.
Take nekopara for instance, in the realm of moege it was well done but nothing special, but it managed to go sort of mainstream and there seems to be quite a large base of people who are fans of it outside of the VN communities. I think some of this love people have for it comes from how it has done stuff they haven't seen before as they haven't gotten into VNs.

I think that one of the problems with VNs is that so many of the heavily recommended VNs are very long. So many of the ones that are really often recommended and very highly rated are 50-100 hour titles and I just don't think that getting into something where those types of titles are seen as an introduction is easy.
Another thing is how so many in the community tries highlight VNs as some sort of high art superior to every other medium and completely disregard anything part of the VN market that doesn't adhere to what they consider good, like calling moege and nukige trash and trying to make it out to be as if VNs would be way more amazing and mainstream had it not been for those damn genres.
I personally think that one of the ways to get people into VNs would be to actually get people into things like moege or nukige as I think there are a lot of people who would want harem anime and manga to actually have conclusive endings and based on the amount of 18+ doujins of popular characters there is a demand for ero content with characters you actually get emotionally attatched to during a story.
I think trying to highlight VNs as having good stories won't really do much as every medium has good stories to offer, I think instead it is important to highlight the things which makes VNs special and the types of content you either won't find in other mediums or you won't find done as well. Some I would highlight is integration of porn in the story, harem stories with branching routes and romantic development as well as mystery which can be enhanced by route and choice systems.
Take nekopara for instance, in the realm of moege it was well done but nothing special, but it managed to go sort of mainstream and there seems to be quite a large base of people who are fans of it outside of the VN communities. I think some of this love people have for it comes from how it has done stuff they haven't seen before as they haven't gotten into VNs.

This is such an amazing post. Very well done, op.

Here is a list of VNs officially released in english, I will likely not update this list anymore after August 2021 as I don't see much of a point in it anymore with improvements to the search function of vndb.
Orange text means confirmed for an official english release while yellow text means that a part has been released but not the entire VN.
I have also made a list with the ones with physical release, this list is sorted the same way as this but also has info on where the titles can be bought and if it is available 
List of physical english releases of VNs
MangaGamer (Store)
 
Sekai Project (Homepage)/Denpasoft (Store)
 
JAST USA (Store)
 
NekoNyan (Store)
 
Frontwing (Homepage)
 
Sol Press (Store)
 
Shiravune (Loves DRM, especially Denuvo)
 
Visual Arts
 
Fruitbat Factory (Store)
 
MoeNovel (Burn in hell)
 
Cherry Kiss Games (Homepage)
 
Winged Cloud
 
Degica
 
Aksys Games (Store)
 
XSEED Games (Store)
 
NIS America (Store NA, Store EU)
PQube
 
Others (Japanese)
 
Others (not japanese)
 
Himeya Soft (Bankrupt)
 
Hirameki International (Quit the VN market)
 
SakuraGame/Paradise Project (Machine translated, do not buy from them)
 

This whole thread:
 

Some people feel oppressed having to learn how to read and write, guess that should be made optional in school, not like it would have any negative effect on the people choosing not to learn it right?

In that case I think the easier solution for them would just be to scrap japanese and go over to english as their new native language or an optinal native language meaning they don't have to learn japanese at all.

Then once you have gotten your first license start a kickstarter to fund the title getting translated and use the money to fund getting more licenses so you can announce more titles. Then work on getting as many licenses as you can possibly get and then get overwhelmed by the amount of projects leading to poor management of the different localisations and poor management on delivering on your initial kickstarter/kickstarters to then be hated by people who spent money on your kickstarter or are waiting on you to release titles. Then suffer poor sales due to reputation built up on poor management and due to the small reader base in the english community which also only has few people willing to actually pay for VNs. 

been into Anime/Manga myself since my early/mid-teens back in the mid-90's.  when the 21st century brought the modern Internet at large,
as well as the Great U.S. Anime Boom, my collection extant rather exploded right along with it;
 
 
 

Glad that you liked it though quoting the entire list might be a bit much

Not buying from MG due to discord leak seems kind of stupid if you ask me, I would guess pretty much anyone in retail sometimes behind closed doors talk about annoying customers. And considering the 90% piracy rates and low pay I think it is pretty understandable that they rant among themselves when people are acting in an annoying way. 

Not buying from MG due to discord leak seems kind of stupid if you ask me, I would guess pretty much anyone in retail sometimes behind closed doors talk about annoying customers. And considering the 90% piracy rates and low pay I think it is pretty understandable that they rant among themselves when people are acting in an annoying way. 

Personally I think the monogatari series is quite deep and does a lot of interesting things. One of the interesting things is how biased the narrative is with it being controlled by the protagonist of each arc. For instance Nadeko with her stories that has 3 different protagonists which each has a completely different understanding of Nadeko as a character.

Not buying from MG due to discord leak seems kind of stupid if you ask me, I would guess pretty much anyone in retail sometimes behind closed doors talk about annoying customers. And considering the 90% piracy rates and low pay I think it is pretty understandable that they rant among themselves when people are acting in an annoying way. 

Not buying from MG due to discord leak seems kind of stupid if you ask me, I would guess pretty much anyone in retail sometimes behind closed doors talk about annoying customers. And considering the 90% piracy rates and low pay I think it is pretty understandable that they rant among themselves when people are acting in an annoying way. 

Haven't really looked too much into censorship on PS1 and PS2, but either way the current censorship is pretty bad.

btw I am not saying they are likely to be SakuraGame, they are clearly SakuraGame. When updating my list on official english releases a while back I found that SakuraGame had put many of their titles under a new name Paradise Project. For instance Super Star a VN that seems to have credible evidence of stolen assets from what I have seen was originally released by SakuraGame and is now under Paradise Project, both of them are listed on the vndb page of Super Star. 

This is what they said 18 days ago.
"Production should be starting very soon, so hopefully within a couple months"
Think that is the most recent info we have.

Here is part 2
 

I feel like these kind of recommendation sites should be easier to find, for instance the fuwanovel.se site I think mainly only people who were active when it was made and the initial discussion was up for it. Tag the main discussion for some of the recommendation sites out there or make a link on the site or something that is easy to see rather than let it be burried as time progress. Personally I feel like the settup on the fuwanovel.se site is the best and I think it would be pretty cool if it was used more and was worked on more to add new titles and new features etc.

Happy belated 24th birthday to @bakauchuujin, and I hope you'll have a good year ahead.

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