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| ====== Recommendations ====== | ====== Recommendations ====== |
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| | Not sure what to read? Try one of these visual novels! |
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| | ===== English Native ===== |
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| | A visual novel that was originally written in English, rather than translated from another language. The genre is nowhere near as big as it is in Japan, but there have been a few standouts. |
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| | ^Visual Novel ^Synopsis ^Cost ^Links ^ |
| | |[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/698780/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club/|Doki Doki Literature Club]] |The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed. |Free |[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/698780/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club/|Original Game]], [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388880/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club_Plus/|Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! (Paid)]]| |
| | |[[https://www.katawa-shoujo.com|Katawa Shoujo]] |Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. |Free |[[https://www.katawa-shoujo.com/download.php|Four Leaf Studios]], [[https://flathub.org/apps/com.katawa_shoujo.KatawaShoujo|Flathub download]] | |
| | |[[https://paperdino.com/save-the-date/|Save The Date]] |It’s a perfectly normal evening, and you have a quiet dinner planned with one of your friends. And so begins one of my weirder games. Save the Date is a game about a lot of things. Friendship. Stories. Hope. Destiny. And above all else, dinner. This is actually kind of hard. Save the Date is probably the single thing I have worked on that I am most proud of. But don’t just take my word for it – sit down, clear about an hour from your schedule, and play it for yourself.|Free |[[https://paperdino.com/save-the-date/|Paper Dino Software]] | |
| | |[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/451760/Highway_Blossoms/|Highway Blossoms]]|The gold rush has struck the west for a second time. Highway Blossoms is the story of Amber, a girl trying her best to be alone on the road until she stumbles upon a young hitchhiker and the journal of a prospector from long ago. |US$12.99|[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/451760/Highway_Blossoms/|Steam]], [[https://vnstudioelan.itch.io/highway-blossoms|itch.io]], [[https://www.gog.com/en/game/highway_blossoms|GOG]] | |
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| ===== Japanese Native ===== | ===== Japanese Native ===== |
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| * [[https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/38314|/vn/'s Moe VN Recs, 2021 edition]] | * [[https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/38314|/vn/'s Moe VN Recs, 2021 edition]] |
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| ===== English Native ===== | |
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| A visual novel that was originally written in English, rather than translated from another language. The genre is nowhere near as big as it is in Japan, but there have been a few standouts. | |
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| ^Visual Novel ^Synopsis ^Cost ^Links ^ | |
| |[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/698780/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club/|Doki Doki Literature Club]] |The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed. |Free |[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/698780/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club/|Original Game]], [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388880/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club_Plus/|Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! (Paid)]]| | |
| |[[https://www.katawa-shoujo.com|Katawa Shoujo]] |Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. |Free |[[https://www.katawa-shoujo.com/download.php|Four Leaf Studios]], [[https://flathub.org/apps/com.katawa_shoujo.KatawaShoujo|Flathub download]] | | |
| |[[https://paperdino.com/save-the-date/|Save The Date]] |It’s a perfectly normal evening, and you have a quiet dinner planned with one of your friends. And so begins one of my weirder games. Save the Date is a game about a lot of things. Friendship. Stories. Hope. Destiny. And above all else, dinner. This is actually kind of hard. Save the Date is probably the single thing I have worked on that I am most proud of. But don’t just take my word for it – sit down, clear about an hour from your schedule, and play it for yourself.|Free |[[https://paperdino.com/save-the-date/|Paper Dino Software]] | | |
| |[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/451760/Highway_Blossoms/|Highway Blossoms]]|The gold rush has struck the west for a second time. Highway Blossoms is the story of Amber, a girl trying her best to be alone on the road until she stumbles upon a young hitchhiker and the journal of a prospector from long ago. |US$12.99|[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/451760/Highway_Blossoms/|Steam]], [[https://vnstudioelan.itch.io/highway-blossoms|itch.io]], [[https://www.gog.com/en/game/highway_blossoms|GOG]] | | |