Hidden Visual Novel Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated visual novel games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Visual Novel games on Steam.

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Sunrider: Liberation Day - Captain's Edition Liberation Day will come... but you will be betrayed. Experience the stunning continuation of Sunrider Mask of Arcadius in this hardcore turn based tactics game with heavy story elements.

Price -91% 2.22€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Mar 2016
The Bottom of the Well Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Mar 2016
We Know the Devil WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a visual novel about teens reluctantly fighting the devil at summer camp. Follow meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus as they get to know each other--but one always gets left out.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Feb 2016
Mystic Destinies: Serendipity of Aeons During your first year of university, immense magical powers are forced onto you, thus revealing the supernatural world hidden within ours. But you must learn to control your powers with the help of a partner or risk destroying everything around you. Will your new fate be one of tragedy or serendipity?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Feb 2016
Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology Project "Life is like a waiting room, except people don't leave in the order they enter." Narcissu is a thought provoking visual novel series about terminal illness, living, dying, and the relationship between those leaving and those left behind. There are no miracles, no heroes, no villains in this story.

Price -74% 0.80€
Rating 9.1
Release 27 Jan 2016
Aozora Meikyuu Aozora Meikyuu is a short Romance Visual Novel with focus on a cute girl.

Price -84% 0.81€
Rating 7.4
Release 27 Jan 2016
Sepia Tears A visual novel about a memory that a boy named Mark tries very hard to forget, and a girl named Myra who unearths it.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Jan 2016
The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jan 2016
Sakura Santa Koji is feeling a bit down. This year is the first Christmas he's spending alone. After moving away from home to attend the University of his dreams, he found his college life to be rather lonely. Feeling distraught, he wanders to his local shrine to make an offering.

Price -94% 0.61€
Rating 8.0
Release 21 Dec 2015
Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star The loveable birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are back in the remastered holiday-themed sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star!

Price -55% 4.51€
Rating 8.7
Release 05 Dec 2015
BAD END It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Price -1% 5.88€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Nov 2015
Highschool Romance Can you find love as the only boy in an all-girls school? Find out, in this slice-of-life visual novel game with multiple endings.

Price -83% 2.59€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Nov 2015
Sakura Beach 2 It's been a few months since Seiji last visited the beach. After enduring the chaos of his new daily life, another holiday with his childhood friends is just what he needs. However, the appearance of another girl whose love of space rivals his own ensures that his trip will be anything but peaceful.

Price -83% 1.77€
Rating 7.2
Release 06 Nov 2015
Swordbreaker The Game The Swordbreaker game is interactive fiction with lots of illustrations where you and you alone get to choose the storyline and the ending!

Price -85% 0.75€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Nov 2015
G-senjou no Maou - The Devil on G-String You play as Azai Kyousuke, the son of an infamous gangster. Kyousuke knows what he likes and lets nothing stand in his way in getting what he wants. Referred to as God by his classmates, he often enjoys listening to Bach and "working" part time for his stepfather.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 05 Nov 2015
Sound of Drop - fall into poison - Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.

Price -81% 2.46€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Oct 2015
200% Mixed Juice! 200% Mixed Juice! is the 10th Anniversary game of OrangeJuice, an old school RPG featuring a 200% mix of OrangeJuice characters.

Price -94% 0.44€
Rating 7.0
Release 23 Oct 2015
The Men of Yoshiwara: Kikuya "The Men of Yoshiwara" is a popular romance game for women. At the end, to whom is it that you will be talking of love? Vocal opening song/English text

Price 27.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 14 Oct 2015
Who Is Mike - A Visual Novel You wake up with an aching head and the world out of focus. In front of you is a man accusing you of being “fake”. He looks exactly like you, down to the last scar and pimple, has the same memories, the same voice and the same personality. But who is lying and who is telling the truth? Who is fake and who is real?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Sep 2015
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Sep 2015
Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden “Master, Master! I did it!!” "I can hear you, no need to shout! Oh, my! This is a rather firm Kidney." My Organic Garden is an avant-garde organ-clicking game. Whether it’s to get Master’s praise, or to please the customer, click away and ship those organs!

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Aug 2015
Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal- The latest visual novel by Tomo Kataoka, the author of Narcissu 1st & 2nd, has arrived! An empty world with endless rain and only one person. Here there is no hunger, sickness or even death. Just what story does this world's one occupant have?

Price -49% 6.65€
Rating 8.1
Release 07 Jul 2015
The Fruit of Grisaia SIX FRUITS BARE THEIR FANGS AT THE WORLD. --The academy was their orchard. In this place of learning, protected by high walls from the outside world, there arrived a single young man who'd lost his purpose in life. He'd lost sight of what he wanted to protect.

Price 36.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 May 2015
Sakura Fantasy The new visual novel from the makers of Sakura Spirit and Sakura Angels. Sakura Fantasy Chapter 1 is an exciting visual novel fantasy adventure where you decide the development of the story by the choices you make. It is the tale of an aspiring female protagonist who wishes to aim to become a knight.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 8.3
Release 29 May 2015