The term “visual novel” is a broad church.
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Makoto, however, is a painfully average guy who just won a luck-based lottery for admission.
I’ve included it.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
is a pastel-saccharine bishoujo dating sim.
Except it doesn’t really, because this is actually ahorrorgame.
I’m usually reluctant to include brand-new games on a bestest-best list, recency bias being what it is.
Yoko is particularly eager to investigate rumours doing the rounds of a so-called Rite of Resurrection.
Here’s to a season three.
A Year Of Springs is a trilogy of very short visual novels by solo indie dev npckc.
It bears repeating that A Year Of Springs is anything but a downer.
It’s hard to find a game that has as much personality as Butterfly Soup.
They’re finding themselves, and figuring out ways to express themselves as they awkwardly grow into adults.
Everyone should play Butterfly Soup.
Its pay-what-you-want on Itch.io, so there’s no excuse not to.
It’s like the Breakfast Club got run through a golden age horror filter at Universal Studios.
From a purely objective standpoint, this list would be incomplete withoutClannad.
This is a hard game to recommend, but an even harder one to leave off the list.
