Popular dark visual novels
Gloomy choices run through these popular dark visual novels, where you read dialogue over illustrated scenes and shape routes and endings with your decisions. Phantom PHANTOM OF INFERNO NITRO ARCHIVE follows an entanglement caught in plots and shootouts, while Our Wonderland returns a strained circle of friends to a childhood realm that grants desires at a cost, and Banebush strands you in a home village haunted by old stories.
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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. Read, choose your words carefully, and decide if you stay together in this short, bittersweet romance for visual novel readers.
97% of 164 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4Free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. You choose how to treat a clingy junior, a fallen prince-like senior, a kind bookstore manager, and a mysterious boxer who may be your lost brother, with each choice branching toward a different ending.
98% of 1,084 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$6Phantom 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. Amidst it all, a poignant tale of a boy and a girl unfolds...
91% of 141 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$29.99Sister 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 ability to read minds, only to be driven even deeper into isolation. His sole remaining comfort is his younger sister, gifted yet lonely.
73% of 667 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99Only You
"Problem Child" me, Class Heartthrob her—two lines that should never cross collided through a series of coincidences, shattering my monochrome world. Crave her eyes on me alone, crave her world with me alone. The once-pure admiration begins to twist...
94% of 745 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?
"We regret to inform you that the Earth has been demolished." Coming next—a "Human Observation Documentary" starring "Landmine Girl"(fake) and "Nerd" (so-called).
97% of 1,003 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.69AIR
A summer-town romance about family, memory, and a girl tied to the sky. You read, choose, and branch through routes and endings, including the side story First Sky Chapter, with retouched HD art and full Japanese voice. Sad, tender, and musical: worth playing for the long summer feeling and the mother-daughter story at its center.
97% of 697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99Andromeda Six
Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story. Take on the role of a lost Traveler and uncover the truth of your past. Fight for a future for both yourself, and those you grow close to throughout your journey.
96% of 102 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99Sweet 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. You guide her choices among old friends, new crushes, family friction and a stray puppy, across three routes, one secret route and twelve endings. Heavy, tender and black-and-white, it is worth playing for readers who want a sad school romance that takes its feelings seriously.
94% of 10,532 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 133$7.99Katawa Shoujo
Hisao Nakai arrives at Yamaku High School with a faulty heart and a lot to learn. You read, choose, and follow five different girls down five full love stories about disability, friendship, and growing up. Tender, funny, and sad in turn, it earns its tears.
97% of 6,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 81FreeKanon
Key's debut visual novel returns in HD, set in a snow-covered northern town where small miracles unfold. You read, choose, and branch into different routes and endings, with full Japanese voices and retouched art. Warm, sad, and romantic in turn, it is worth playing for the story that started Key's run of tearjerkers.
97% of 400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99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 magic. You read, choose, and follow routes to different endings, chasing one small happiness worth scattering for.
93% of 200 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$44.99
