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Forgotten Fables: Wolves on the Westwind
Adventure 25 May 2022
Visual novel with RPG elements, set in a fantastic universe created for The Dark Eye system. In Forgotten Fables: Wolves on the Westwind we play as two characters whose adventures and decisions they make will shape the future of the entire land.
One Night: Burlesque
Adventure 03 November 2023
An independent noir visual novel. One Night: Burlesque stars Holly, a dancer capable of reading minds, conducting an investigation to prevent an impending crime.
Bahnsen Knights
Adventure 14 December 2023
Bahnsen Knights is a visual novel adventure game, telling the story of a cult, searching for hell within the heavens. The gameplay revolves around making choices and solving puzzles.
Witch on the Holy Night
Adventure 07 December 2022
Witch on the Holy Night is a visual novel adventure game set in the same universe as Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night. The game is set in 1980s Japan, starring a young witch learning magic from her powerful mentor. The story is fully linear, with no choices to be made.
Moonbriar
Adventure 2025
Moonbriar is a fantasy visual novel. Its protagonist is Fern, a young rabbit tasked with saving her community from disaster.
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
Adventure 16 May 2013
A classic visual novel adventure, a prelude to Muv-Luv Alternative, which presents a completely new story and characters. Players take on the role of the test pilot of a new generation of experimental models of mosses built to repel invasions of aliens, who have been effectively taking control of the Earth for several decades.
The Idolmaster: Stella Stage
Simulation 21 December 2017
Another installment in The Idolmaster series (popular especially in Japan). Similar to the previous installments, Stella Stage mingles together elements of manager titles, rhythm games, and visual novels. The player again takes on the role of a beginner music producer and their job is to manage the careers of thirteen teenage idols in a way that will allow them to perform at the legendary Stella Stage concert.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice
Adventure 09 June 2016
Another installment in the legal thriller adventure game series by Japanese studio Capcom, created for Nintendo 3DS. As always, the game's protagonist is the reputable lawyer Phoenix Wright, who this time leaves Japan and travels to a fictional country, the dominant religion of which is based on spirit worship. Upon arrival Phoenix gets involved in a series of crimes and has to defend the unfairly accused in court.
Subsurface Circular
Adventure 17 August 2017
An adventure game, in which you assume the role of a detective on the track of mysterious vanishing of menial robot workers. In order to crack the case, he travels by titular Subsurface Circular – a kind of metro – and questions the passengers.
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Adventure 21 June 2016
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is an unusual production that allows you to play the role of.... a bartender working in a cyberpunk city. The game focuses on dialogue and storytelling. The player can also influence the story by giving guests the right drinks.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Adventure 19 February 2008
A very interesting adventure game, many of which is played in the courtroom. Once again we play the role of a lawyer. This time, however, it is not Phoenix Wright, but the title Apollo.
Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight
Arcade 04 December 2018
Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight belongs to a spin-off rhythm games series featuring the music from the Persona series. The game features several gameplay modes, including a visual novel story campaign that takes place in Persona 3 universe.
Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight
Arcade 04 December 2018
Another entry in the series of action music-rhythm games that utilize the soundtrack from the main entries of the jRPG Persona series developed by Atlus. The gameplay mechanics are based on simple principles and – similarly to other music games – focus on pressing buttons at the right time, when their symbols appear on the screen. Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight features several gameplay modes, including a visual novel story campaign that takes place in Persona 5 universe.
The Lost Child
RPG 19 June 2018
A dungeon crawler RPG developed by the Japanese developer Kadokawa Games, led by Takayasu Sawaki - the creator of El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. The main protagonist of The Lost Child is a journalist who investigates a suicide committed on the Shinjuku station in Tokyo. As it turns out, beings from another world are involved in the mystery, and the main protagonist comes into possession of a weapon called Demon Gun Gangour, which is capable of enslaving the fallen angels.
The Idolmaster 2
Simulation 24 February 2011
Second and full-fledged edition of The Idolmaster series. Players take on the role of a beginner producer working in an artistic agency. The hero receives a year to promote a three-person team of teenage idols. His sentences are to set the schedule of the day, promote and publish their songs, as well as to organize concerts and events.
The Idolmaster: One For All
Simulation 15 May 2014
The next installment of The Idolmaster series, popular in Japan. We play the role of a music producer whose task is to direct the career of thirteen teenage idylls. The title abandons many of the predecessor's complex managerial options, including a fixed time limit for fun, offering more adventure elements and interaction with the heroines instead.
The Miskatonic
Adventure 20 July 2018
The Miskatonic is a side-scrolling adventure game with visual novel elements, inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The game offers a rather comical twist on the concepts created by the Loner from Providence. The players assume the role of a young witch, who gets admitted to the titular university of Miskatonic. She wants to use the knowledge gained over the course of her studies to summon one of the Outer Gods, Shub-Niggurath.
Corona Blossom Vol. 1 Gift From the Galaxy
Adventure 28 July 2016
A classic representative of the visual novel genre. The game was created and published by independent studio Front Wing, creators of ISLAND and the Grisaia series. Corona Blossom Vol. 1 Gift From the Galaxy presents the story of Keiji, a young creator of robots and other machines, who drops out of college, abandoning city life in order to move in with his grandfather, who lives in the countryside.
Summon Night 6: Lost Borders
RPG 27 September 2017
The sixth major installment in the series of jRPGs enriched with elements of strategy, visual novel and dating simulation game, which was first launched in 2000. Summon Night 6: Lost Borders tells of three characters, each having their own companion: a flying creature with unique abilities. When strangers literally fell from the skies into the world of Fillujah, the protagonists decided to learn the secret they hide. The gameplay is based on two pillars.
Danganronpa 1-2 Reload
Adventure 10 October 2013
A suite of two refreshed and improved parts of the popular visual novel adventure series that were released on PSP in 2010 and 2012. In both titles, players take on the role of a high school student who tries to find the perpetrators of murders committed in his class, imprisoned in a secluded place by the sadistic headmaster of the school.
Root Letter
Adventure 16 June 2016
An adventure game/visual novel developed by Kadokawa Games. The action of Root Letter takes place in present-day Japan, with players taking control of a thirty-something man who discovers long forgotten letters that he had exchanged fifteen years ago with a penfriend named Aya Fumino. Her last letter contains a murder confession, and states that she has to atone for her sin. After that, she suddenly broke off all contact.
Steins;Gate 0
Adventure 10 December 2015
A visual novel adventure game developed by Nitroplus and 5pb. Studios. The game is a direct continuation of the original Steins;Gate from 2009. The plot picks off using one of the alternative endings of the predecessor. Okabe Rintaro, a student heartbroken after the tragic death of his friend Kurisu Makise, makes an appointment to a psychiatric health facility.
Three Fourths Home
Adventure 20 March 2015
An unusual narrative/adventure game developed by [bracket] games and Digerati Distribution. Three Fourths Home tells the story of a young woman named Kelly who is currently on her way to her family home in Nebraska after a years’ absence. We accompany the woman during conversations with her parents and her younger brother, learning more about the complicated relationship she has with them. The game cannot be easily assigned a genre, as we are given a mix of an adventure game and a visual novel.
Everlasting Summer
Adventure 18 November 2014
Representative of the visual novel genre, created by an independent Russian studio Soviet Games. The player plays the role of Semyon, who in unexplained circumstances ends up in a communist pioneer camp. Its task is to unravel the mystery behind the mysterious incident and to make acquaintances with the residents of the facility.