Dark visual novel stories

When you crave bleak reading, these visual novels place you in grim conspiracies, haunted towns and twisted romance where choices branch into dark routes and endings.

if you stay

if you stay

Winter 1999, hours before your train to Tokyo. You are Fumiko, outed and done with your hometown, meeting your girlfriend Mika for one last date.

97% of 164 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4Free
暴杀残雨之夜

暴杀残雨之夜

On a rainy night you play Yuexiang Lihua, a high school student staying with her uncle and working part-time to save for college.

98% of 1,084 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$6
Phantom PHANTOM OF INFERNO NITRO ARCHIVE

Phantom PHANTOM OF INFERNO NITRO ARCHIVE

NITRO ORIGIN's debut title, Phantom PHANTOM OF INFERNO, is coming to Steam! A web of swirling conspiracies. A whirlwind of bullets.

91% of 141 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$29.99
Sister Other Paranoia

Sister Other Paranoia

A dark visual novel by acclaimed creator nyalra. Overly sensitive to other people's emotions, the protagonist—a light novel writer—develops the…

73% of 667 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Only You

Only You

"Problem Child" me, Class Heartthrob her—two lines that should never cross collided through a series of coincidences, shattering my monochrome world.

94% of 745 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99
Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?

Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?

"We regret to inform you that the Earth has been demolished."

97% of 1,003 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.69
AIR

AIR

A summer-town romance about family, memory, and a girl tied to the sky.

97% of 697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
Andromeda Six

Andromeda Six

Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story.

96% of 102 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
Sweet Home

Sweet Home

Sweet Home is a visual novel about Zhao Ying, a high school girl skipping class through a cold 2018 winter break in small-town China.

94% of 10,532 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 133$7.99
Katawa Shoujo

Katawa Shoujo

Hisao Nakai arrives at Yamaku High School with a faulty heart and a lot to learn.

97% of 6,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 81Free
Kanon

Kanon

Key's debut visual novel returns in HD, set in a snow-covered northern town where small miracles unfold.

97% of 400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
さくら、もゆ。-as the Night's, Reincarnation-

さくら、もゆ。-as the Night's, Reincarnation-

A bittersweet romance about former magical girls living quiet lives ten years after saving the world, until a spring reunion pulls them back toward…

93% of 200 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$44.99
Our Wonderland

Our Wonderland

A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth.

99% of 145 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4Free
Folie Fatale

Folie Fatale

A schoolgirl opens her shoe locker to an avalanche of letters, and every boy circling her is unstable in his own special way.

85% of 2,674 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$5.99
The seven days i spent with you

The seven days i spent with you

You wake with no memory in a locked room, and Shiro, a pink-haired girl in white, calls you her most important person.

93% of 1,323 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$1.59
Fate/hollow ataraxia REMASTERED

Fate/hollow ataraxia REMASTERED

Set half a year after the Fifth Holy Grail War, this remastered visual novel traps Shirou, Bazett and every familiar Servant in four repeating days…

96% of 982 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$29.99
Love Nest ~V0.098~

Love Nest ~V0.098~

A retro-styled psychological horror visual novel where you read, choose, and fall for someone who already knows you.

98% of 921 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33Free
Paradise

Paradise

Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island.

90% of 572 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
迷鹿:Terreno di caccia

迷鹿:Terreno di caccia

独居在求学之地、平平无奇的草食妖怪少女——小璐茸的生活在新学期开头便陷入了异常…… 安谧而愉快的平凡日常被打破,而通过选择指引到的未来能否让她摆脱不安的阴影? 红线那一端所牵引的人,是未来的幸福,还是蓄势的猎手?

88% of 398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
Schrödinger's Call

Schrödinger's Call

The moon is falling and you have 21 nanoseconds left. As Mary, guided by a cat named Hamlet, you answer one last phone call after another from souls…

94% of 1,215 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$17.99
I'm Pregnant at 16

I'm Pregnant at 16

A hand-drawn visual novel about a 16-year-old facing an unexpected pregnancy.

85% of 1,768 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
ONE.

ONE.

The pioneering nakige that made a generation cry... Legendary '90s visual novel ONE. is back and better than ever with updated art, animations, and…

80% of 382 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Fate/stay night REMASTERED

Fate/stay night REMASTERED

Read your way through a mage's war where every choice binds you to one of three routes and a different ending.

95% of 4,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 206$29.99

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