Best 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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TELEFORUM
TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?
Love Is All Around
The player becomes Gu Yi, uses the first-person perspective to immerse himself in meeting six beauties, and embarks on a joyful and sweet love journey with them. Six girls that are charming, innocent, intelligent, wild, sexy, glamorous, who will go to the end with you is up to you to decide.
The Mildew Children: Chapter 1
Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.
Romance Club - Stories I Play
Immerse yourself in romantic visual stories where you control what happens!
Manny's
A starving castaway on a deserted island discovers that a fast food restaurant appears once the sun goes down. As if beckoning him inside in his most desperate hour of need, this stranded soul will have to work for his meal...and for his life!
Long Gone Days
A modern-day JRPG that imagines a world of war. Overcome language barriers, forge unlikely friendships, and find hope amidst conflict.
Draw
Welcome to the world of Draw, a 2D sidescroller and visual novel! Armed with nothing but a pencil, play as “Stickman” as you explore a brand-new world. Solve puzzles by drawing into the game, meet new friends while dodging scribble monsters, and make memories that’ll never be erased!
Fate/Samurai Remnant
“Your wish shall perish...” A Holy Grail War begins in Edo Japan. A brand new Fate action RPG presented by TYPE-MOON and KOEI TECMO GAMES.
Vampires' Melody 2
Emerald seas! Blue skies! Sandy beaches! An island adventure in the ocean sounds like a trip to paradise. However, the place is a nightmare with no one to provide any blood for Raylan to feed on after he turned into a vampire by accident, especially since he has another hungry vampire at his side.
Stella of The End
Jude Gray, a wandering Courier, receives a request to deliver some very special cargo. This cargo turns out to be Philia, an android girl who is unaffected by the enigmatic Singularity Machines.
ANONYMOUS;CODE
Hack Into God
Goodbye Volcano High
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
Tide—1927—
In the 16th year of the Republic of China, Shanghai. Bai Youfu, a young girl who was dissatisfied with the arranged marriage, saw the news of her fiancé's murder in the newspaper one day, pointing to the innocent woman as the murderer. In order to protect her father, she decides to leave home.
Mediterranea Inferno
Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.
ghostpia Season One
"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.
Clover Day's Plus
Bottled-up emotions... An everlasting oath... Heartfelt desires... An enduring regret... And a childhood promise. Yuuto was abandoned by his parents and raised in an orphanage in Britain before a trading merchant by the name of Takakura Yoshiomi adopted him and brought him to Japan.
要来点百合吗 Love Yuri
Shu Yu, a popular writer, became sisters with Lu Xi, an online voice actress.But when Lu Xi accidentally discovers that her favorite yuri author is actually her sister Shu Yu, she becomes increasingly attracted to Shu Yu's personality and a forbidden romance gradually unfolds between them...
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.
My Furry Protogen 🐾
When your fate is determined by the universe itself, you don’t have many options. You can either oppose it until the very end or accept it for the rest of your life, but neither choice can change your destiny.
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death.
Lilith Wants to Buy Your Soul
Take a personality test with a definitely-not-clingy demon girl.
Love n War: Hero by Chance II
Love n War: Hero by Chance II is a tactical RPG with exciting battles and hot girls. The fight against the Drogakan empire goes on with a more sophisticated storyline this time. Build your economy, recruit gorgeous heroic girls, upgrade units, and immerse in stimulating love tales.