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A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-sky desert in this surreal visual novel.
If ペンギンウォーズ scratched a story-driven and emotional itch for you, keep reading. Start with these visual novels when you are ready.
── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts girls traveling in apocalypse. Through talking to the girls, we get to know them and approach the mysteries of the world ──
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
Wander into Moon Palace, an eternal diner under a full moon, and spend a couple of hours talking with its strange regulars over drinks from the fountain. A short, dialogue-heavy visual novel with point-and-click exploring and two endings, made for slow reading and odd, tender company.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
"Piano at 5 a.m." is a short text adventure game. A girl who is the main character wanders in a fog forest while adjusting the four factors of "drowsiness," "thirst," "madness," and "recharge," which increase or decrease depending on the choices she makes.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-sky desert in this surreal visual novel. You read, choose, and die in stupid ways until you find one of 9 endings. Short, strange, funny and sad, with retro pixel art and a soundtrack worth staying for.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
A single otaku thirsting for love stumbles into a fantastic journey and a chance with three very different girls. You read, choose, solve odd puzzles and survive mini-games and strange battles to win their hearts across multiple endings. Hand-drawn, silly and romantic in equal measure.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
You wake up in Purrgatory with no memory and a cat for company. To pass eternity you wander a hand-drawn afterlife, talk through big feelings with seven downtrodden souls, run small errands, and trade an endless stream of cat puns on the way to multiple endings.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
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 stuck between life and death, and help them let go. A sad, tender visual novel worth playing for its picture-book look and gut-punch stories.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
A yandere yuri visual novel about a girl running through a dark forest from someone who loves her to death. You follow three routes, meet three girls, and die three ways while an amused narrator judges your choices. Short, strange, and sweet in a morbid way.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine. Love and hatred blur in the mist. What will you do? Who can you trust? Welcome to a cruel world of deceit and suffering—
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric

A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-sky desert in this surreal visual novel.

Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.

A New York detective and his assistant travel to solitary Shironagasu Island on a dead millionaire's invitation, then murders start.

Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and…

Trapped in the town of Kuromori-cho, schoolgirl Kihara Kashin must travel into the past with Kiritani Yuki to find a way out.

Jessica, our protagonist, used to be a noteless writer. However, everything changed after she encountered a stranger…

Luna is unemployed and wants one thing: her favorite magical girl figure. When her city recruits a magical girl team, she signs up.

Astrid wakes up in Purgatory and has to make peace with her death. Only problem is... she doesn't remember anything!

A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at…

A short psychological story about a stressed student buried in books and study, who becomes fixed on exploring her ceiling.

"Under the Streetlights of the Reiche" is an omnibus-style adventure game. Experience one man's last day in the town.

It is a visual novel AVG with a female beta as the protagonist,.

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…

終末世界の見知らぬ廃墟で目覚めた青年は、壊れかけのアンドロイドの少女と出会う。 これは少女の不思議な声を辿る、5日間の小さな短編アドベンチャー。

A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke.

You summon a rude little demon named Debirun, then travel the magical world of Magirisia squeezing emotional aura out of people to turn into magic.

可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。

A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles.

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost.

Run a small cafe for 21 days in Melodius, where everyone has animal ears.

"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.

Alice's World is a story-driven 2D adventure puzzle game. Amidst desolate ruins and deserted cities in a world filled with death, the young girl…

You opened your eyes to find a giant girl looking down at you.

A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game

終末世界の見知らぬ廃墟で目覚めた青年は、壊れかけのアンドロイドの少女と出会う。 これは少女の不思議な声を辿る、5日間の小さな短編アドベンチャー。

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…

A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke.

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost.

Alice's World is a story-driven 2D adventure puzzle game. Amidst desolate ruins and deserted cities in a world filled with death, the young girl…

A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles.

可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。

You summon a rude little demon named Debirun, then travel the magical world of Magirisia squeezing emotional aura out of people to turn into magic.

Luna is unemployed and wants one thing: her favorite magical girl figure. When her city recruits a magical girl team, she signs up.

Run a small cafe for 21 days in Melodius, where everyone has animal ears.

A boy who can no longer hear the piano, living in the shadow of his gifted younger brother; a karate girl who is more than a friend but not yet a…

You opened your eyes to find a giant girl looking down at you.