Top rated competitive visual novels
Stories here come with someone to beat. These top rated competitive visual novels pair long dialogue and branching routes with matches where you test timing, team choices and nerve against other fighters. BlazBlue Centralfiction surrounds its bouts with saga lore and side tales, Pyre lets your exiles keep their journey going whether you win or lose a rite, and SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel puts you in the shoes of an aspiring pro learning life beyond the match.
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Umamusume: Pretty Derby
As a trainer you raise horse girls inspired by real racers, from Special Week to Gold Ship, through training, races, and live commentary to a winner's concert. Worth playing for the character stories and the slow build from hopeful trainee to first-place finish.
93% of 61,794 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10,556FreeBlazBlue Centralfiction
BlazBlue Centralfiction closes the Azure Saga with a long, dialogue-heavy story mode attached to a fast 2D fighter. Pick from 35 anime-inspired fighters, then read through the hidden truth of the world, side stories and gag reels between bouts. Worth playing for the ending and the lore if you like story with your fighting.
94% of 9,605 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 379$39.99Fate/EXTELLA
After the Holy Grail War, Nero holds the throne of the digital realm SE.RA.PH, and rivals are already circling. Fate/EXTELLA pairs fast hack-and-slash battles with long stretches of reading, told from three heroines' perspectives. Come for the banter, bonds, and a new story by Kinoko Nasu.
91% of 4,107 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$39.99Pyre
Pyre is a party-based RPG about leading exiles across a mystical purgatory called the Downside. You read long stretches of dialogue, get to know a large cast, and guide them through three-on-three Rites where you carry an orb into the enemy pyre.
90% of 8,417 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend
A 2D anime fighter with a visual novel attached that is almost as big as the fighting itself. You get a long, lore-heavy main story plus a warm school comedy side story, digest recaps of the first two games, and 8 gag episodes, broken up by stylish one-on-one battles with 28 fighters.
91% of 2,386 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$29.99SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
92% of 872 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1FreePair-a-Site
Welcome to Pair-a-Site, the dating website of the future! But you aren't here for love. Take on the role of an alien computer virus who can control the minds of anyone they attract! Your end goal? The president of the world.
99% of 69 Steam reviews are positiveFreeRecesses
It's recess. Time to play cards, find your missing friend, discover the meaning of life. The usual 5th grade playground stuff.
99% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
A fighting game with a visual novel inside it. You read long illustrated story chapters following the Persona 3 and Persona 4 casts through the P-1 Climax, a fighting tournament broadcast on the Midnight Channel, with occasional one-round battles. Best if you already know those characters and want more time with them.
87% of 3,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$29.99Wolfstride
Get wrecked in this immature grown-up RPG about a trio of troublemakers stumbling their way through a giant mecha tournament. Repair and upgrade the team’s hand-me-down rig, pick up odd jobs to pay the bills, and battle the best-of-the-best all while running from the regrettable choices of the past.
88% of 785 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99Dramatic Road : the origin of wind
A full-fledged SRPG set in modern-day Japan! Use your allies' skills and special abilities to fight through simultaneous turn-based, strategic battles! A story of fierce battles between boys and girls told in three parts!
98% of 42 Steam reviews are positive$13.99Don't Forget Our Esports Dream
Don’t Forget Our Esports Dream is a narrative game about the South Korean esports scene. Play as Bolt, a professional StarCraft: Brood War player at a flashpoint in his career. Play like a pro with guided StarCraft scenes, and see what it takes to live the dream.
91% of 121 Steam reviews are positiveFree
