Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?
Earth is being demolished, and two chosen students star in an alien documentary about falling in love.
97% of 1,020 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.69
Visual novels like Palinurus
Miss the story-driven and emotional pull of Palinurus? Start with these visual novels when you are ready.
Analogue: A Hate Story
A generation ship vanished for thousands of years, and you board it to read what its dead crew left behind. With a spunky AI beside you, you sort logs, ask questions, and piece together a dark story of tradition and loneliness. Short, sharp, and built for visual novel readers who like their romance with a mystery attached.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
94% of 1,702 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Pirated Code: Admin Edition
When an AI program named Seren awakens to find they've been installed as the co-pilot of a smuggling ship, they'll have to rely on their newfound crewmates to help them find where they belong.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Romantic
94% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$9.99A Field of Flowers and Stars
A Field of Flowers and Stars is a simple mouse or keyboard-based visual novel.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
92% of 78 Steam reviews are positiveFreeplanetarian HD
planetarian HD is a short kinetic novel from Key about a scavenger and a talkative planetarium robot who has waited 30 years for a visitor. You read, listen, and watch her star show come back to life in a drowned, ruined city. It takes an afternoon and lands hard.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
98% of 3,258 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99Rising Angels: Reborn
Despite determination and skill, Natalie Puccile, a Special Investigations and Tactics officer, has spent her career watching over a listening post in the middle of deep space. After the orders that she has always dreamed of arrive, she finds herself in charge of a small destroyer and tasked with discovering the fate of a missing...
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
81% of 588 Steam reviews are positiveFreeMy Furry Protogen 🐾
When your fate is determined by the universe itself, you don’t have many options. You can either oppose it until the very end or accept it for the rest of your life, but neither choice can change your destiny.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
89% of 965 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99Ceiba
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
94% of 262 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99Blossoms Bloom Brightest
A sci-fi, yuri visual novel with a dollop of mystery.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
68% of 219 Steam reviews are positiveFreeHate Plus
Let's spend the next three real-time days together uncovering the mystery of what went horribly wrong on a derelict generation ship, with the help of a spunky/more-than-slightly-traumatized AI sidekick! A sequel to Analogue: A Hate Story that tells a whole new hate story of its own.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
84% of 491 Steam reviews are positive$9.99The Moon Looks Beautiful Tonight: Definitive Edition
Two girls must travel to the Moon's core after it has been thrown out of orbit. A PC98 inspired visual novel about fear of the unknown and people in love.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
98% of 289 Steam reviews are positiveFreeThe Far Rings: A Space Opera Visual Novella
Play as Doctor Athena, a passionate young woman with mixed alien heritage—and the sole survivor of refugee camp ITOH. Three days remain on the trip 'home'—with only the ship's unsettlingly polite Captain Odysseus and the cryptic alien war criminal Chiron for company. But is everything really as it seems?
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
84% of 79 Steam reviews are positiveFreeHimawari - The Sunflower -
What begins as a slice-of-life romantic comedy will prove to be a sci-fi tale full of character drama, mysteries, and tragedy. This coming-of-age visual novel is a story about life, mistakes, pursuing your dreams, and finding your place in the universe.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
87% of 178 Steam reviews are positive$34.99
Hidden gems like Palinurus
The Moon Looks Beautiful Tonight: Definitive Edition
Two girls must travel to the Moon's core after it has been thrown out of orbit.
98% of 289 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
89% of 856 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Nobody Nowhere
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art.
92% of 171 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Little Green Girl
One day the protagonist meets an alien girl and the story turns...
96% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Ceiba
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl.
94% of 262 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
Whispers from the Star
Stella crash-landed on the planet Gaia, and you are the only person her communicator can reach.
80% of 1,669 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Stella of The End
A courier takes a job carrying an android girl across a world ruled by giant machines.
97% of 2,929 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
her tears were my light
a love story between time and space
99% of 789 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab.
94% of 149 Steam reviews are positiveFree
q.u.q.
A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-sky desert in this surreal visual novel.
94% of 1,883 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
My Furry Protogen 🐾
When your fate is determined by the universe itself, you don’t have many options.
89% of 965 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
Newest visual novels like Palinurus
Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?
Earth is being demolished, and two chosen students star in an alien documentary about falling in love.
97% of 1,020 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.69
マイ・プラネット─MOON CHILD─
[Gameplay Mechanics]• Controls: Simple mouse-click navigation to advance the story.
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
The Moon Looks Beautiful Tonight: Definitive Edition
Two girls must travel to the Moon's core after it has been thrown out of orbit.
98% of 289 Steam reviews are positiveFree
MAHOUTEQ!
Luna is unemployed and wants one thing: her favorite magical girl figure. When her city recruits a magical girl team, she signs up.
99% of 1,455 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Whispers from the Star
Stella crash-landed on the planet Gaia, and you are the only person her communicator can reach.
80% of 1,669 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
89% of 856 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Nobody Nowhere
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art.
92% of 171 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
CELL 0: Cyber Entertainment Leisure Lounge
CELL is a short non-linear visual novel in a post-apocalypse/cyberpunk setting.
96% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Bright Star Of Seraph-Katis-
《The Bright Star Of Seraph-Katis-》is a short text adventure game. This game combines a visual novel and an "adventure mode".
88% of 64 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
The Lament of a Lifeless Star
As their feet lead them on a journey... They happen upon the secret of how this world was destroyed.
96% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Ceiba
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl.
94% of 262 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
Little Green Girl
One day the protagonist meets an alien girl and the story turns...
96% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free