Visual novel recommendations

[spectresfrommercury]

love once mermaids tears

 

[majestix1988]

1. Summer Pockets(it's key alright)
2. Angel beats 1st beat(fan translation complete but I recommend to watch anime first then play this one)
3. Aokana four rhythms across the blue(finish all routes on this one due extra 1 and 2 are just added thing other heroines)
4. If you like aokana then go koichoco
5.senra banka

 

[Yousef]

Damn everything I was gonna rec was already recced!
I may as well stop Air, it’s my favorite VN.

AIR on Steam

Summer stretches on endlessly. Beneath the vast blue sky. Beneath the air in which she awaits— AIR, the second game released by visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring the side story novel, "First Sky Chapter" and full voice support!

store.steampowered.com

Didn’t see anyone mention Kanon so here goes.

Kanon on Steam

A tale of small miracles in a snow-covered town— Kanon, the very first game from visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring HD visuals and full voice support! (The protagonist is only voiced in certain scenes.)

store.steampowered.com

Big fan of rewrite, summer pockets and ONE too

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1680000/Rewrite/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2432100/ONE/

Summer Pockets on Steam

From the creators of Angel Beats! and CLANNAD, Key, comes their latest emotional, award-winning journey. Follow protagonist Takahara Hairi as he travels to the secluded island Torishirojima, where he rediscovers what it means to enjoy summer vacation.

store.steampowered.com

Angel Beats is sadly untranslated.

 

[majestix1988]

Damn everything I was gonna rec was already recced!
I may as well stop Air, it’s my favorite VN.

AIR on Steam

Summer stretches on endlessly. Beneath the vast blue sky. Beneath the air in which she awaits— AIR, the second game released by visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring the side story novel, "First Sky Chapter" and full voice support!

store.steampowered.com

Didn’t see anyone mention Kanon so here goes.

Kanon on Steam

A tale of small miracles in a snow-covered town— Kanon, the very first game from visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring HD visuals and full voice support! (The protagonist is only voiced in certain scenes.)

store.steampowered.com

Big fan of rewrite, summer pockets and ONE too

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1680000/Rewrite/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2432100/ONE/

Summer Pockets on Steam

From the creators of Angel Beats! and CLANNAD, Key, comes their latest emotional, award-winning journey. Follow protagonist Takahara Hairi as he travels to the secluded island Torishirojima, where he rediscovers what it means to enjoy summer vacation.

store.steampowered.com

Angel Beats is sadly untranslated.

Downloads – Alka Translations

alkatranslations.com

It's has patch even blue reflection(expanded version of Summer pockets has patch for it)

But mostly I will skip it due summer pocket anime is on horizon in spring 2025

 

[naizou's icon naizou naizou]

Full Metal Daemon: Muramasa is the best visual novel of all time.
It's a cruel and sad story, but if you don't mind that, I highly recommend it.

 

[CardcaptorEd2019]

Big fan of rewrite, summer pockets and ONE too

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1680000/Rewrite/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2432100/ONE/

Summer Pockets on Steam

From the creators of Angel Beats! and CLANNAD, Key, comes their latest emotional, award-winning journey. Follow protagonist Takahara Hairi as he travels to the secluded island Torishirojima, where he rediscovers what it means to enjoy summer vacation.

store.steampowered.com

I saw that there was a new patch that was being made for rewrite so I'm waiting for that to come out to try out rewrite.
https://vndb.org/r128277

Full Metal Daemon: Muramasa is the best visual novel of all time.
It's a cruel and sad story, but if you don't mind that, I highly recommend it.
View attachment 26354

That's on my list of visual novels that I need to get

 

[tsuri69]

Any visual novel fans here? list some recommendations for VNs you really liked, I played Hoshi no Furu Oka a while ago and in spite of it being unremarkable and very obscure, I liked it a lotView attachment 19261

mainly Mareni works (霞外籠逗留記 or 信天翁航海録) or some KeroQ/Makura stuff (終ノ空、　素晴らしき日々）
or if you like lighter works then i highly recommend さくら、もゆ。

 

[Jimbo_McDumbo]

Class of '09

 

[Antilocal123]

None of them.

 

[sk4di]

Katawa Shoujo, Sabbat of the Witch and Totono

 

[kingofdragons]

daytime:
The Grisaia series.

after dark:
Taimanin Asagi series.

 

[popckorn]

My favorites, in no particular order (and will forget many xDDDD I just love the medium):

The Invisibles by Grant Morrison

The Watchmen by Alan Moore

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Edit: Dayuuuum I just realized it was VISUAL novels, not GRAPHIC novels, LOL!
My bad!

 

[Antilocal123]

Skyrim.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Fate/Stay Night (iconic)
Tsukihime OG and Remake (amazing)
The House in Fata Morgana (mystery sorta)
Kara no Shoujo parts 1, 2, and 3 (aka The Shell, murder mystery)
Cartagra (prequel to Kara no Shoujo, murder mystery)
Muv Luv + Muv Luv Alternative (slice of life/sci-fi)
Says no Uta is cool
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (mystery, play the Umineko Project version *winky face*)
999: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors (mystery/escape room)
Steins;Gate (iconic)
Clannad (iconic)
Kanon
Air

I'll think of more later probably. I love visual novels uwu

 

[Sinmenon]

Fate/Stay Night Remastered and Fate/Hollow Ataraxia are considered classics that started a huge franchise. The short version is that this guy, who was a survivor of a disaster, finds himself in a battle royale between seven mages that summons seven heroes (and anti-heroes) of legends to fight and vye for the Holy Grail, which can grant any wish.

Paranormasight is a horror visual novel. It takes place in the 1980s; a series of urban legends that started back in the Edo period actually have a dark secret underneath: each legend represents a horrifying curse, manifested in artifacts known as “cursed stones” bearing very specific conditions to activate and effects but all of them extremely lethal. These legends are seemly linked to a resurrection ritual that will activate once a certain number of soul dregs are reached, and the death of other curse bearers is more worthwhile than random passerby, making the chosen ones both the hunter and the hunted in this story. (I wrote a review, maybe I should share here)

Doki Doki Literature Club is another horror VN that is famous for its meta surprises and it is one that is better going in as blind as possible.

Ace Attorney series is also very famous for its investigative elements, humor and clever writing. I think I don't need to elaborate here.

Slay the Princess.
You're on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world.

Witch on the Holy Night is the very first story from the creators of Fate/Stay Night that was shelved for many years. Two witches live in a mansion atop of a hill, and their path coincide with an unassuming boy that until recently was living in the rural area.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Witch on the Holy Night is the very first story from the creators of Fate/Stay Night that was shelved for many years. Two witches live in a mansion atop of a hill, and their path coincide with an unassuming boy that until recently was living in the rural area.

I think the phrasing here is a bit strange. Technically this VN came out in 2012. The idea was (edit) about in the mid 90s, but the actual story didn't come out till much later like stated.

Type-Moon's actual first big Visual Novel within this shared "Nasuverse" would be Tsukihime from the year 2000 (which I actually love way more than F/SN despite my having a command seal hand tattoo)

 

[Sinmenon]

I think the phrasing here is a bit strange. Technically this VN came out in 2012. The idea was (edit) about in the mid 90s, but the actual story didn't come out till much later like stated.

Type-Moon's actual first big Visual Novel within this shared "Nasuverse" would be Tsukihime from the year 2000 (which I actually love way more than F/SN despite my having a command seal hand tattoo)

The idea for Witch was shelved before Nasu made Tsukihime and then made after FSN.
If we are going to be pedantic, it started with Notes (or Angel Notes), then Garden of Sinners (Kara no Kyokai), Witch on the Holy Night, Tsukihime (and Kagetsu Tohya), Fate/Stay Night and so on. I'm not even counting the deeper cuts like DDD or Canaan.
I actually follow the whole Nasuverse since the pre-release of FSN, I'm that old

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

The idea for Witch was shelved before Nasu made Tsukihime and then made after FSN.
If we are going to be pedantic, it started with Notes (or Angel Notes), then Garden of Sinners (Kara no Kyokai), Witch on the Holy Night, Tsukihime (and Kagetsu Tohya), Fate/Stay Night and so on. I'm not even counting the deeper cuts like DDD or Canaan.
I actually follow the whole Nasuverse since the pre-release of FSN, I'm that old

Hehehehe, I was going to mention "uhh actually Angel Notes was the first" but I didn't wanna get hyper ultra pendantic xD

I still have all my Tsukihime fan translations downloaded on my old computer (kagetsu tohya and the fan disc + as well)

Also got my physical copy of Fate/Hollow Ataraxia

 

[rugal]

visual novels rpg
kamidori alchemy meister
tears to tiara the original version the remakes are good to
utawarerumono the original version the remakes are not bad its just no the same game
eien no aselia the spirit of eternal sword
eien no aselia expansion
seinarukana the spirit of the eternal sword 2

 

[bittersweetlemur]

People in this thread have good taste. The only recs that I have that haven't been mentioned are:
Phenomeno - Mitsurugi Yoishi wa Kowagaranai - Psy Horror. Very short, less than 5 hours.
G-Senjou no Maou - Cat and Mouse, suspense, mystery. I only finished the true route, so I don't know how long it is. True route's absolute cinema though.

 

[Sora]

Clannad (my favourite vn ever),
Shibuya Scramble,
Higanbana (Download it from Nyaa)

 

[Burzuru]

only VN i've played is the the silver case.
its fucking wild and you should go play it.