Top-rated visual novels
Ordered by Steam positive review percentage, with at least 500 reviews. Includes 84 individual works in our catalog; collections are excluded.
- 01
Summer Pockets
98.6% positive4,956 Steam reviews ↗Hairi visits the secluded island of Torishirojima and spends a summer getting to know its residents.
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CLANNAD
98.4% positive10,980 Steam reviews ↗Tomoya helps Nagisa rebuild their school drama club while confronting his troubled home life. Their growing circle of friends connects school, family, and life beyond graduation.
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ATRI -My Dear Moments-
98.4% positive23,495 Steam reviews ↗In a coastal town threatened by rising seas, a boy encounters a robot girl while searching what remains beneath the water.
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WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT
98.2% positive8,572 Steam reviews ↗A TYPE-MOON story follows young magic users and a newcomer whose ordinary life intersects with their hidden world.
Linear story · English edition
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Scarlet Hollow
97.9% positive5,275 Steam reviews ↗Visit your estranged cousin in a North Carolina mining town for a family funeral. Select character traits and make decisions as supernatural incidents spread through the town.
Choices shape the story · English edition · In development
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Perfect Gold - Yuri Visual Novel
97.8% positive1,214 Steam reviews ↗Two young women explore the magical city of Castlecoast and revisit their chances at friendship and romance.
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Little Busters! English Edition
97.7% positive1,235 Steam reviews ↗A close group of friends draws its protagonist into school activities, new relationships, and a larger emotional story.
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Misericorde: Volume One
97.6% positive551 Steam reviews ↗A murder mystery unfolds inside an English convent in 1482, where relationships and religious rules shape the investigation.
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Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
97.6% positive4,446 Steam reviews ↗A group of strangers is trapped in a death game where discussions and majority decisions determine who survives.
Choices shape the story · English edition · In development
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Katawa Shoujo
97.6% positive6,184 Steam reviews ↗Following a long hospital stay, Hisao moves to a school for students with disabilities and adjusts to new friendships and possible relationships.
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planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~
97.6% positive2,029 Steam reviews ↗A scavenger enters a ruined planetarium and meets a robot who still expects visitors. He agrees to repair its projector amid the remains of a devastated civilization.
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
97.4% positive8,609 Steam reviews ↗A newly dead protagonist manipulates nearby objects while investigating his identity and the events surrounding his death.
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eden*
97.4% positive5,260 Steam reviews ↗A soldier and an unusual young woman become part of a final love story as their planet approaches its end.
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Marco & The Galaxy Dragon
97.3% positive7,871 Steam reviews ↗A spacefaring treasure hunter returns to Earth after finding a clue that may lead to her missing mother.
Linear story · English edition
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VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
97.3% positive38,727 Steam reviews ↗Mix drinks in a small bar in Glitch City and listen to its regulars describe life under corporate rule. Your orders influence conversations and the paths their stories take.
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Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue
97.1% positive6,590 Steam reviews ↗Students use anti-gravity shoes to compete in Flying Circus, a sport that links their ambitions and relationships.
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STEINS;GATE
97.1% positive27,045 Steam reviews ↗Students in Akihabara discover that a modified microwave can send messages into the past. Phone calls and messages lead to different outcomes as their experiments attract dangerous attention.
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SeaBed
97.0% positive1,109 Steam reviews ↗Three perspectives connect in a psychological mystery about memory, relationships, and the people searching for answers.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
96.9% positive25,228 Steam reviews ↗A murder-mystery party aboard a train turns Sonic's friends into suspects for the player to investigate.
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Symphonic Rain
96.9% positive1,245 Steam reviews ↗Music student Chris Vertin studies in the rainy town of Piova and works toward becoming a professional musician.
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
96.7% positive34,009 Steam reviews ↗A voice tells you there is a princess in a cabin and that you must kill her. What happens next depends on which parts of the story you believe.
Choices shape the story · English edition
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Homicipher
96.7% positive8,310 Steam reviews ↗A woman in an unfamiliar world must infer a language while interacting with mysterious nonhuman inhabitants.
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Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
96.6% positive22,368 Steam reviews ↗The sequel returns to the girl's unsettling inner world after the events of Milk inside a bag of milk.
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Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly
96.6% positive2,791 Steam reviews ↗Return to a late-night coffee shop to prepare drinks and listen to another set of conversations with its visitors.
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Find Love or Die Trying
96.6% positive11,944 Steam reviews ↗Contestants on a dating show must form a relationship to survive its lethal rules.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
96.5% positive227,843 Steam reviews ↗A school literature club and its poetry activities become the setting for a psychological horror story.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
96.4% positive6,818 Steam reviews ↗A boy's everyday life in a rural village becomes entangled with local disappearances, suspicion, and the annual festival.
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
96.4% positive34,316 Steam reviews ↗A brief trip to buy milk becomes an unsettling conversation about the difficulty of everyday tasks.
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
96.3% positive4,840 Steam reviews ↗Grow up on an alien planet, form relationships, and make choices that affect both your future and your colony.
Choices shape the story · English edition
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Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms
96.2% positive1,118 Steam reviews ↗Chizuru's relationships and the conflicts surrounding the Shinsengumi continue as the story moves toward Edo.
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
96.0% positive38,522 Steam reviews ↗Makoto Naegi and his classmates are trapped inside Hope’s Peak Academy. Investigate murders and challenge testimony in class trials to uncover who is responsible.
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STEINS;GATE 0
96.0% positive8,477 Steam reviews ↗An alternate worldline explores the consequences of failing to save someone in the original STEINS;GATE story.
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A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986
95.9% positive2,230 Steam reviews ↗Michelle and Sam meet in Hong Kong in 1986. Their developing relationship explores family expectations and cultural change through dialogue choices and two endings.
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Muv-Luv Alternative
95.9% positive3,794 Steam reviews ↗The final main installment of Muv-Luv continues Takeru's story through military conflict and decisions with consequences for his companions.
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fault - milestone two side:above
95.9% positive2,563 Steam reviews ↗The next part of fault follows directly from milestone one's fantasy journey and the relationships established there.
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
95.8% positive32,794 Steam reviews ↗A school trip to Jabberwock Island becomes a deadly game. Search crime scenes, question classmates, and defend your deductions in a new set of class trials.
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Nightshade/百花百狼
95.7% positive799 Steam reviews ↗A young ninja becomes involved in conflicts and relationships shaped by the aftermath of Japan's Sengoku period.
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Fate/stay night REMASTERED
95.7% positive4,897 Steam reviews ↗A young mage becomes involved in a conflict between summoned heroes and the people who command them.
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Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs
95.7% positive1,584 Steam reviews ↗Episodes five through eight continue the island mystery and arguments introduced in Umineko's Question Arcs.
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Raging Loop
95.7% positive11,257 Steam reviews ↗A traveler becomes trapped in a remote Japanese village during a deadly ritual. Revisit decisions through a story flowchart and use knowledge from earlier outcomes to uncover the rules.
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Harmonia
95.6% positive791 Steam reviews ↗A robot awakens in a damaged world and encounters people whose emotions challenge its understanding of humanity.
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PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
95.4% positive7,244 Steam reviews ↗Several people in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward acquire deadly curses linked to local ghost stories. Investigate their motives and switch perspectives to uncover a rumored resurrection ritual.
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Lake of Voices
95.3% positive642 Steam reviews ↗Travelers crossing a dangerous lake must decide who can be protected from the creatures beneath its surface.
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Rewrite+
95.3% positive789 Steam reviews ↗Kotarou joins his school's occult research group in a city built around the coexistence of civilization and nature, where local rumors lead to larger questions.
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Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
95.1% positive2,868 Steam reviews ↗A wealthy family's gathering on an isolated island turns into a mystery about murder, inheritance, and a supposed witch.
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Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-
95.0% positive8,255 Steam reviews ↗A boy encounters an android whose expressions and behavior raise questions about whether a machine can have a soul.
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Heart of the Woods
94.8% positive985 Steam reviews ↗Two paranormal vloggers visit a remote village where supernatural activity is real. One encounters a woman’s ghost, drawing them into an old curse and an unexpected romance.
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The House in Fata Morgana
94.8% positive6,712 Steam reviews ↗An amnesiac visitor wakes in a ruined mansion. A maid recounts the tragedies of its former residents across different centuries, raising questions about the visitor’s own identity.
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428: Shibuya Scramble
94.8% positive3,965 Steam reviews ↗A kidnapping in Shibuya pulls several very different people into a chain of interconnected events.
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Coffee Talk
94.7% positive12,574 Steam reviews ↗Run a late-night café in an alternate Seattle where humans, elves, and other fantasy residents share their problems. The drinks you serve influence how their stories develop.
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ISLAND
94.6% positive1,774 Steam reviews ↗An amnesiac man washes up on Urashima and begins investigating how the island's residents connect to his past and future.
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NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
94.3% positive57,902 Steam reviews ↗Guide an aspiring streamer's daily activities while her audience, relationships, and stress change in response to your decisions.
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We Know the Devil
94.2% positive1,187 Steam reviews ↗Three teenagers at summer camp face an approaching threat while their friendships repeatedly leave one person outside.
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Hatoful Boyfriend
94.1% positive7,581 Steam reviews ↗The only human student at a school for birds attends classes and pursues relationships with an unusual cast.
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GNOSIA
93.7% positive5,138 Steam reviews ↗A spaceship's crew repeatedly debates who among them is a disguised threat while the player gathers information across loops.
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Highway Blossoms
93.6% positive2,750 Steam reviews ↗A solitary traveler meets a hitchhiker and follows an old prospector's journal across the American Southwest.
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Muv-Luv
93.4% positive2,091 Steam reviews ↗Takeru's familiar school life becomes the starting point for a story that moves from romantic comedy into an alternate-world conflict.
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CHAOS;CHILD
93.2% positive4,115 Steam reviews ↗Years after an earthquake in Shibuya, a school newspaper club investigates killings that seem connected to an earlier series of crimes.
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Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds
93.1% positive2,330 Steam reviews ↗Chizuru searches for her father in nineteenth-century Japan and becomes involved with the warriors of the Shinsengumi.
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Flowers -Le volume sur printemps-
92.8% positive1,899 Steam reviews ↗A shy student begins a new life at Saint Angraecum Academy and finds both relationships and mysteries there.
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Hustle Cat
92.8% positive1,311 Steam reviews ↗Avery begins work at a cat cafe where the appealing staff and a mysterious book suggest that something unusual is happening.
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Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~
92.7% positive766 Steam reviews ↗A girl's attachment to her dolls becomes the starting point for an unusual set of romantic relationships.
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Amnesia: Memories
92.6% positive4,478 Steam reviews ↗A heroine who has lost her memories navigates five different romantic worlds while trying to understand her situation.
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WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界
92.3% positive5,485 Steam reviews ↗Letters asking for help become puzzles in which rearranging sentences changes the lives of their writers.
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fault - milestone one
92.3% positive3,237 Steam reviews ↗Princess Selphine and her guardian Ritona flee an attack on their homeland, only to arrive in an unfamiliar forest. Their journey home begins in a world of science and magic.
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If My Heart Had Wings
92.3% positive4,632 Steam reviews ↗After an injury ends his cycling plans, Aoi returns home and joins a group trying to rebuild their school's glider club.
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Heaven Will Be Mine
92.0% positive802 Steam reviews ↗Three women pilot giant robots while their choices pull them between attraction, conflict, and competing futures for space.
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AI: The Somnium Files
91.5% positive9,409 Steam reviews ↗Detective Kaname Date investigates a serial murder case in near-future Tokyo. Search crime scenes and explore suspects’ dreams to find clues that ordinary questioning cannot reveal.
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Arcade Spirits
91.0% positive632 Steam reviews ↗Start work at the Funplex in a world where the arcade industry never collapsed. Customize your protagonist and develop friendships or romance with seven possible partners.
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ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE
90.8% positive717 Steam reviews ↗A school robotics club on Tanegashima struggles to survive in a world where augmented-reality devices are part of everyday life.
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Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition
90.7% positive615 Steam reviews ↗A rescue captain loses his memory during an emergency at a research facility and must help its survivors escape.
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One Night Stand
89.6% positive779 Steam reviews ↗Wake in a stranger’s bedroom after a night you cannot clearly remember. Conversation and careful observation reveal what happened and lead to twelve possible endings.
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Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel
88.6% positive1,765 Steam reviews ↗Run a fantasy tavern, prepare magical drinks, and collect rumors from adventurers who stop at the counter.
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CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
88.2% positive2,080 Steam reviews ↗A reclusive student in Shibuya receives an image linked to a series of killings, then encounters a scene that appears to match it.
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Cinders
87.0% positive795 Steam reviews ↗Revisit Cinderella’s household through a heroine who can challenge the fairy tale’s expectations. Decisions shape her personality, her relationships, and the ending she pursues.
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TAISHO x ALICE episode 1
86.1% positive1,369 Steam reviews ↗A fairy-tale heroine takes the active role in helping her chosen Prince Charming reach a happier ending.
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BUSTAFELLOWS
86.1% positive1,042 Steam reviews ↗A young journalist becomes involved with a group of men whose skills place them on the edges of crime and justice.
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Dandelion - Wishes brought to you -
86.0% positive774 Steam reviews ↗A student's everyday life changes when a group of unusual animals enters her home and leads her toward unexpected relationships.
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The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
85.5% positive1,530 Steam reviews ↗Seven people become entangled in a curse, and their decisions affect both their relationships and their chances of survival.
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Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk
84.8% positive663 Steam reviews ↗A young woman conceals a mark associated with witches in a town divided between rival clans.
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Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly
84.5% positive916 Steam reviews ↗A woman wakes in an unfamiliar mansion with no memory of who she is or why she has arrived there.
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
82.8% positive23,301 Steam reviews ↗Sixteen kidnapped students are forced into another killing game, with investigations and trials deciding who is responsible.
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Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
81.7% positive4,921 Steam reviews ↗Nine people trapped underground must make decisions with lethal consequences to escape a controlled experiment.
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7'scarlet
73.8% positive883 Steam reviews ↗A woman travels with her childhood friend to a remote town to investigate her brother's disappearance.
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