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Life is Strange: True Colors

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Life is Strange is a series of award-winning and critically-acclaimed narrative adventure games. Discover a universe where everyday heroes wield supernatural powers, while dealing with real challenges, real relationships, and real emotions. It's our world... with a twist of the strange. No matter your choices, the experience will stay with you forever. Deep in the mountains of Colorado, you'll find Haven Springs, a small mining town filled with beauty and mystery. As Alex, you'll discover the shocking secrets behind your brother’s death in an emotional roller-coaster of an adventure, using your psychic power of Empathy to change fate and change lives.

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You and Me and Her: A Love Story

You and Me and Her: A Love Story is the visual novel medium in its purest form. Will Shinichi choose Miyuki, the beautiful queen bee of the school, or the endearingly awkward misfit Aoi? With art by Tsuji Santa, these beautifully rendered romances will stay with you forever.

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Simulator

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

Sakura Wars

The Imperial Combat Revue takes the stage as Tokyo’s defense force against a demon threat in this extravagant adventure. Soldiers in wartime, but theater performers in peacetime, the Revue’s Flower Division is not living up to their legacy and is at risk of being shut down. As newly appointed captain Seijuro Kamiyama, it’s up to you to turn the team around.

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Puzzle

Indie

Evan's Remains

A mystery adventure that merges puzzles with visual novel elements.

I Wani Hug that Gator!

Linux

I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.

Strategy

Sakura Taisen

Sega Saturn

Released in 1996 for the Sega Saturn, Sakura Taisen is the first game in the iconic Japanese game franchise. It combines strategy RPG elements with dating sim-style character interactions to make "A Storm of Romance amid Taishou Cherry Blossoms!"

(I see) Nothing

(I see) Nothing is a drama Visual Novel with little bit of horror and denpa in certain storylines. The game let's you choose MC's name as well as gender and the chosen gender does slightly affect the game's art.

Snoot Game

You play as Anon, a lonely, faceless, nobody, reject who finds himself in the dinosaur themed acid trip of a school named Volcano High. Here Anon meets the qt ptero known as Fang and their clown-vomit colored posse of reject friends and other associated thorns-in-the-side. All of whom, you can read about here.

This game is a parody of Goodbye Volcano High.

Unwell

You regain consciousness. Beside you lies a broken and rusted ladder, and in front of you stretches a dark, damp-smelling corridor. In the distance, you hear the sound of falling water. You have no idea where you are. All you know is that you must go deeper.

Koi de wa Naku: It's Not Love, but So where Near

This is the debut and the only title by Syangrila Smart. It tells the story from several perspectives but there are two main protagonists: Norifumi, a guy who has been taking pictures since he was small, and Yumi has been working as a model but suddenly shows interest in photography. Instead of a typical to a visual novel cast of heroines, this game rather follows a story told from both of their perspectives. Even though the title suggests that it isn’t about love, it tells a drama of adolescence describing a type of 'love' which is not quite romantic but close.

Memories Off 2nd

PlayStation

Dreamcast

PlayStation Portable

The 2001 sequel to Memories Off continues the interactive romance visual novel saga.

Kokoro Connect: Yochi Random

Kokoro Connect: Yochi Random is a visual novel adaption of the light novel series Kokoro Connect, which features an alternative storyline based on the original novels and features multiple routes and endings determined by the player's choices during their playthrough.

Kamilia

Kamilia is an emotional, story-driven detective mystery where your choices shape the outcome.

Step into the shoes of a gifted painter, pulled into an unsolved mystery. An investigation that soon turns into something far deeper — an intimate, heartfelt search for truth.

Explore a beautifully crafted narrative blending mystery, emotion, and visual storytelling into a unique, choice-driven experience.

Point-and-click

Antioma

Antioma is a touching adventure game about a kid, who spent almost his whole life in the hospital.

Dive into a touching story

The little boy Kiddo has spent most of his life in the hospital. Little does he know what a complicated and fascinating world lies concealed beyond the hospital walls.

Today, on Kiddo's birthday, his mom wasn't around. Instead of her, the boy met Shadow, who inspired him to escape from a hospital and search for his mom.

Solve puzzles, hide and run from enemies, make friends, and help the boy get home.

Real adventures lie in wait for Kiddo! Now his fate is in your hands…

Date Z

"Date Z" - a captivating mix of high school drama, romance, and mystery. As a transfer student, your challenge is to navigate relationships and secure a date by Friday to survive a deadly virus outbreak. Unravel the hidden secrets. Every choice you make counts.

The 257th Element

In 2032, Tokyo scientists unveil Araraginium, the 257th element, capable of materializing matter and bringing back the deceased as Araragi Humans. Masakazu Tokimune, a Japanese high school student, grapples with daily life's blend of humor, intrigue, and love.

Orufure-ru: Koufuku no Hanataba

PlayStation Vita

A Visual Novel directed to female demographic. Main theme of this game is maid.

Parfum Nostalgique

Parfum Nostalgique is a heartfelt tale about the people who change us, for better and for worse. From betrayal to unconditional love, from regret to hope… see the drama unfold between exes and lovers, old friends and new, when you dive into this kinetic visual novel dram-com series. With delicate vintage shoujo-inspired art, original soundtrack, and a diverse cast of voice actors, Parfum Nostalgique is a lovingly handmade passion project packaged with sweets and scented with roses by sole developer Prince Rosalium for your reading pleasure.

Figures of Happiness

Minamo is a pure and romantic girl who can be quite clumsy at times, and she's in love with the handsome Satoru, a boy in her class. While working at her part-time job, Minamo spies Ryo and his girlfriend Mio as they eat together, their love for each other clearly visible in their eyes. She wishes she could sit like that with Satoru, but she knows she's too shy to ever come out and confess her feelings to him.

Soon after, Minamo is killed in an accident. Filled with remorse at not seizing her chance for love while she was alive, she visits Ryo and asks for his help. If he'll lend her his own life force, she'll be able to tell her feelings to Satoru. Ryo doesn't know until it's too late that lending Minamo his life energy will turn him into a lifeless spirit!

And so the wheels of fate turn, winding the destinies of everyone together: dead Minamo and her reluctant helper Ryo; the pure Mio and her carefree twin sister Mao; the competitive Kokoro, who won't give up Satoru without a fight; the lonely spirit Izumi; and the perplexing Soul Collector. What twists and turns await this cast of characters before the final act is played?

Sport

Maybe: Interactive Stories - Wild Pitch

Wild Pitch is an original maybe series romance visual novel.

Rosaline

Step into the world of Rosaline, a kinetic visual novel series by EvoSky Entertainment!

Follow the journey of Rosaline, a strong-willed flower in life's dark garden, as she navigates through treacherous paths and unforgiving hardships. From her tragic childhood to becoming the world's most deadly assassin, Rosaline's story is one of resilience, mystery, and adventure.

Maybe: Interactive Stories - Long Live the Empress: Curse & Love

Long Live The Empress: Curse And Love is an original maybe series. You, the Empress, are told that sleeping with your consort is the only way to break the Heath Empire's curse. But instead of the man your family chose for you, you decide to bring in a beautiful slave as your lover… Who will you choose in the midst of this chaos?

A Week

A Week is a side scrolling adventure game. All you need to do is take care of your dog.

Celestial Ascent

A safe-for-work visual novel set in the near future. Featuring four protagonists, the group uncovers the past and fights against an inevitable future.

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