Popular tense visual novel games
Pressure rarely lifts in these popular tense visual novel games, where you read through illustrated scenes and steer the story with hard choices. STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT draws you into notes sent backward in time and a widening conspiracy, while Midnight Witch leaves you trapped in a school seized by a hostile power and Yet Another Killing Game makes you decide who should live. Each route branches toward different endings shaped by what you pick.
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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$29.99Sweet 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$7.99Our Wonderland
A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth. Either they face the issues plaguing them or risk dying in horrific ways again… and again… and again.
99% of 145 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7FreeFolie Fatale
A schoolgirl opens her shoe locker to an avalanche of letters, and every boy circling her is unstable in his own special way. Folie Fatale is a short, bloody otome horror visual novel about dating five plus one yandere love interests across multiple endings. Note: it is only available in Japanese and Simplified Chinese.
85% of 2,674 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$5.99Love Nest ~V0.098~
A retro-styled psychological horror visual novel where you read, choose, and fall for someone who already knows you. Two very different girls, pixel-art school days, full voice, and a love that keeps glitching through the screen. Sweet at first, then wrong in a way you will want to untangle.
98% of 921 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22FreeDATE A LIVE: Ren Dystopia
Play as Shido and unravel the secrets of the mysterious spirit Ren in the visual novel follow-up to DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation, based on the acclaimed light novel and anime series.
94% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$39.99Paradise
Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island. When things begin to go wrong, they realize to their horror that they are stranded. Turns out that’s only the start of their problems.
90% of 572 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99The 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. Over seven days you watch her swing between tenderness and rage, pick your words carefully, and steer toward multiple endings. Short, dark, and romantic in the unhealthy way.
93% of 1,331 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$1.59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: 1Free我的美味丈夫 My Tasty Husband
Murders quietly upend May's life. A strange husband, a reckless courier, a dutiful officer—reality and hallucination blur together. In this narrative adventure of food, intimacy, and death, make choices as May and reach her ending. If she can still tell what she's eaten from what she's loved...
79% of 446 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$7.99Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke. You are the only living person who can talk to Kugayama Shiori, so you help her chase her lost memories, question other ghosts, and fill an Urban Legend Encyclopedia until one incident explains everything. Funny, bloody, and sad in that order.
94% of 1,113 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
