Visual Novel Thread

Surprised not to find one here. There used to be a good one before. I've not played many, but these I like >Katawa Shoujo (http://www.katawa-shoujo.com/) A standard high school dating sim, but at a special school where all the girls have disabilities. Free and there's also a linux version. It gets kinda deep and the characters are really interesting. >Doki Doki Literature Club (http://ddlc.moe/) Just your standard, moe, kawaii dating sim. >Steins;Gate (http://steins-gate.us/ and http://store.steampowered.com/app/412830/STEINSGATE/) A surprisingly well done story about time travel. Involves John Titor and the Many-Worlds Interpretation.

>Katawa Shoujo came out 6 years ago Where has time gone? I thought one day my life will be something like that once I'm older, but 6 years later and I'm even worse off socially. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grP6Z0tMmYM

I get so triggered when users play Doki Doki Literature Club without playing a proper dating sim/galge first.

>>825 Madoka was my first mahou shoujo anime.

I feel like I should have spent more time in the Nasuverse by reading VNs instead of watching the animes. Still, the ufotable adaptations feel good enough to me, so I don't regret it too much. I just went through all of Kara no Kyoukai. Umineko no Naku Koro ni is damn good soykaf. I highly recommend reading 1-8 as a VN and not watching the anime adaptation before you do. I'm not sure for Higurashi, I am biased towards the anime as it was one of my first favorites.

Bernd and the Mystery of Unteralterbach is a high quality GPLv3 visual novel. https://web.archive.org/web/20171014081514/http://unteralterbach.net/index.en.html

Any free as in free beer and free as in freedom (or they can just run natively on gnu/linux) VNs? I've already played dokidoki, KS and Bernd. I've fancied all three of them but KS is by far the most emotional VN I've played thus far. I'd also recommend Sengoku Rance, it's a 18+ visual novel/rpg, it's proprietary and not free though. Be warned, the game is quite addictive.

>>829 RPG Shooter: Starwish is a free RPG/visual novel, but I think it's only available online, you can't download it as far as I know. Some really neat elements/characters, or maybe I just think so because it was my first, and you always remember your first https://www.kongregate.com/games/xdanond/rpg-shooter-starwish

>>824 I feel you mang, but alteast you got the vicarious experience of dating with the game. I personally didn't masturbate the whole month I was playing the game because I was reaching my sexual fulfillment in the game, it was sad when it all ended.

>>830 Update, was able to download and get it to run with playonlinux. Link here: https://filetrip.net/dl?dydghJ3RAt - Might be sketchy, will inform here if my computer gets tech aids and dies

#RinGirlIsBestGirl

No mention of VA-11 HALL-A yet? Go check it out, its great. Cyb theme, Pixelart, Great Music and runs on Linux too!

>>828 Is there any Chan VN's like this and KS? Some of the best content is made by Chan users of different sites. It should be noted that Unteralterbach was made by Krautchan and Katawa Shoujo by 4chan. What kind of game would Lains make together?

>>825 I feel you, but to be fair, it can act as something of a "gateway drug" which isn't all bad. I recommended DDLC to a friend who'd never played any VNs before; he liked it, then went to Clannad, Steins;Gate, etc. and other good stuff.

>>898 I can recommend you Everlasting Summer - VN by russian 2chan imageboard. Music from this game is amazing.

>Surprised not to find one here. There used to be a good one before. >>898 >What kind of game would Lains make together? Assuming its a VN, which i doubt as lains have higher standards. I cant speak for all of us, but i gather a good majority would make something revolving around drugs, mental illness and computers. >>902 I saw that but i could never find a working dl link, even on http://moonworks.ru Speaking of which, the same people made the herbalist, its not a visual novel in a strict sense despite being made in renpy, but its really nice. Here i dug out a few i played myself, i can recommend them all. https://gamejolt.com/games/deiz/5995 This is a pretty interesting vn with some unexpected plot twists. https://gamejolt.com/games/connected-hearts-visual-novel/285251 A very sureal story with deep and brooding themes, i can very much recommend this, im sure most lains would love this game. https://gamejolt.com/games/my-neighbor-is-a-yandere/269911 A very pervy and cliche game, but quite fun playing trough it. https://gamejolt.com/games/lostimpressions/167664 A fairly generic vn at first, but as you go in deeper you are bound for some nasty plot twists. https://gamejolt.com/games/kwk/98969 A pretty average cringy vn, with a twist, some might be into this who knows. Hope you enjoy these as much as i did.

>>903 >I saw that but i could never find a working dl link, even on http://moonworks.ru You can get it in Steam for free or download here magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4F240DCCE4293A9D94C9ACE372765B40AE420EC9&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt3.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnet&dn=%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5%20%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%20%5BSoviet%20Games%5D%5BVN%5D%5B18%2B%5D%5BRus%2CEng%5D Also don't forget to google how to enable hentai-mode.

>>902 did two routes because of your recommedation, thanks - i liked the atmosphere, drinking kompot was never so comfy

>>833 i see you are a man of culture as well

The first I played through was Doki Doki Literature Club. I then played the Steam version of Sound of Drop: Fall into Poison and got all four endings. Then I played Notch- The Innocent Luna: Eclipsed Sinners and I am still a bit confused by it. I ended up getting one bad ending, a good ending, and another good ending but I had to look online to figure out decision points to get an actual good ending. DDLC definitely opened up a door for me.

Anyone else here play Digital: A Love Story?(https://vndb.org/v4111) I just finished it and I thought lainons might be interested in it. The story is about a computer virus that starts killing AIs and the game is played/read through a pretty neat old fashioned gui. The sucky parts of the game are that it can be a little confusing about how your supposed to progress through the plot, and it's pretty short, like under two hours. Also I really wish the *Emilia character was developed a lot more.

>>1027 I downloaded this game off of Freenet years ago and loved it!

>>823 Only got into VNs a year ago, I'm still also surface-level. Played Ever17, Danganronpas, Zero Escapes, Steins;Gates and Ace Attorneys. Playing Katawa Shoujo now. And DDLC, but that was pretty soykaf imo. My favorite was VLR.

>>823 I played too much of them. Messed up stuff like Black Lilith and worse. Perhaps not typical VN, more like eroge or nukige. At some point there was a scene with a guillotine attached to the important part of a guy and the girl that loved him had to keep the rope of it in her mouth and not moan. Yeah not looking back to that soykaf. Toned it down and played some vanilla stuff on Steam where I still have about 8 unfinished VNs. Just having like a spiritual crisis with the medium itself until I can get over with it and enjoy it again. Has lainon experienced bad feelings too after the wrong visual novels?

>>823 I'm pretty casual but I've been getting into them more recently. Ace Attorney and the Zero Escape games were technically first, but my gateway to checking out the wider genre was Danganronpa. Then I picked up the Fate/stay night, ef, Steins;Gate, a western VN called Highway Blossoms and some VN-adjacent games like Edith Finch. Also read a few unremarkable moe games like SonoHana. Last week I finished Steins;Gate 0 and am debating what to try next. Probably either Cross Channel or Fruit of Grisaia, both look interesting though in different ways.

>>1030 Now I have to read it. vndb link?

>>1032 Hope you are fluent in Japanese, also you require the patch unless you want the watered down version https://vndb.org/r40355

>>1034 Oh, well, that's just disgusting. Thanks for showing me anyway.

>>1035 Empress games just cater to as many niche fetishes as possible. Didn't know some people like to be.. well

>>903 >connected hearts I finally got around to playing this and its been messing with my head ever since I did. Really good story and really good game. I like that it wasn't porn but damn if the endings didn't hit.

>>1031 Grisaia's pretty neat. MC took a while to grow on me though.

>>1165 grisaia mc is what makes it imo especially his (and his masters) comments on human nature. michiru a best, machina a soykaf

>>827 Umineko is some good soykaf, indeed. It rekindled my love for mystery novels, while at the same time providing a heart-touching story that I'm still invested in to this day...And I finished EP7 way too many years ago. I still cry when I get to the Riccordando Il Pasatto part in EP8. The Zero Escape saga (except the last game) is pretty fuarrrking good as well. They are more puzzle games, but they also have a lot of text and VN parts. The first two games are gold. They always keep you guessing at the plot, and I'm sure a lot of lainons will like their themes. Danganronpa is great too. It's amazing how they build this world with very solid themes, and then proceed to heavily deconstruct it to play with your expectations and feelings. Also, I'm going to start playing Steins Gate 0. Without spoilerinos, what did all of you think about it?

I've only played a handful of VNs, but Saya No Uta is my favourite by miles. Some of the best horror I've read.

Things that fit this website: >Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer (Original is 18+, but I recommend the remake that is censored) By Urobutcher, killer soundtrack and aesthetic, cyberpunk meets revenge story meets wuxia. Often said to have some of the best fight scenes in the entire medium. >EVE Burst Error (18+ but the translated versions are all ages) Considered a classic among the Japanese. Also one of the first VNs ever translated. The translation is... not good. It has a lot of Bill Clinton jokes, dating it tremendously. Still, it's a classic sleuthing story with that PC-98 aesthetic, great music, and some interesting themes. Might be worth waiting a bit, it got remade recently and so a better quality translation may be coming. >The Infinity series Never7, Ever17, and Remember11 are all translated. They share a writer with the Zero Escape series. Never7 is a straightforward dating sim with some sci-fi elements to it, but the Cure route... well, I can't say much else without spoiling it. Ever17 has a slow beginning despite having a unique setting, then goes off the rails. Finally, Remember11 is 100% plot. Remember11 is also infamous for its absurdly complex plot; you'll probably need to read the fan explanation if you want to understand the insane amount of layers it has. You can skip Never7, it's 95% generic dating sim and 5% interesting. Things that don't as much: >Kara no Shoujo (18+) A dark, disturbing noir story set in post-WWII Tokyo. Kara no Shoujo has no problem with graphic depictions of sex and violence, but it's extremely stylish and you'll be hard pressed to find a VN with better art direction. It also has a great sequel and a prequel called Cartagra which you should play first if you want to try it, as some of its characters and plot comes up in KnS in a minor but spoiling way. >Subahibi (18+) A real rabbithole of a story. Saying more would spoil it, but it is quickly developing a classic status. It could probably go in the upper section though >Fata Morgana Beautiful, unique art direction with a good story to match. Gothic style with a romantic heart.

Not sure if it counts since there's very little story choice involved and there's a fair bit of gameplay outside of just reading, but Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is incredibly underrated; one of my favourite VNs

I recently played through a free one on Steam called Trick and Treat. It requires getting all regular endings before getting the real ending. It wasn't too scary but had a creepy feeling to it and it had a good plot twist with the solution being fairly well done. The soundtrack was cool as well.

>>1488 I loved that one. I also enjoyed the sequel Last Window: The Secret of Cape West. In order to get that sequel, I had to order it from Amazon from a British vendor. It is a good thing the DS can work with versions from other regions.

>>833 >>915 True men of good taste. I do feel bad that it has been so long and I haven't finished all the routes.

What is a good site to get vns purchased or torrent.

Any love for Nitro+Chiral visual novels? They're the only ones I've been able to play through, I just love how they hold nothing sacred and because I'm a glitterboy. Togainu no Chi was brilliant with its dark atmosphere. Also gotta love that post-apocalyptic punky feeling.

>>1616 If you're looking for BL VNs aarinfantasy is the best place, they have everything and a how-to on everything. Too bad they only stock BL (I think?) Some tumblr blogs that adore a certain vn are also a good source, BTDB.to was a good place too but it's currently offline. Finally, torrent search engines are a good place for anything but they don't seem to have the unusual stuff or they might have a bulgarian localization or a virus. regards >>1617

>>915 >>833 Men of culture, both of you.

>>1629 DMMD was the first VN I completed and it was great indeed. I can't spoil anything but I enjoyed Noiz the most. It's a great game but for me tofainu no chi takes the cake, hands down. Not sure how I feel about coming out on top, since its western style right? I'll have to check again.

>>823 I'd like to mention Narcissu. It's a VN about terminal illness. It's quite short and devoid of any choices (kinetic novel), which makes it a good candidate for baby's first VN. It's available for free on Steam together with its first sequel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/264380/Narcissu_1st__2nd/

The same company that released Higurashi (depending on which game its so much better than the anime) and Umineko also had another game called Ookamikakushi. The designs were flawless and the plot was, predictably, in the same vein as the other 2. Pic related: its ookamikakushi

>>1848 Which Higurashi VNs are good? I've really wanted to get into them, loved the anime(s)

>>1850 There are 8 chapters that are part of a linear story. Steam currently has 6 and is about to release the 7th. Make sure to read it in order, and don't bother with the console arcs as they're not written by Ryukishi. I also HIGHLY recommend the Umineko visual novel, which follows loosely in the When They Cry series.

Yume Miru Kusuri. If you like Katawa Shoujo, you will like this visual novel. The premise is similar but less gross: you can get involved in the life of 3 different weird girls, each with a different problem: bullying, asocial, or drug addict. There's romancing, nudity and sex, but it's tastefully done. What sets it apart is the high quality writing and "magical realism" atmosphere. It treats the painful, shameful topics delicately and manages to offer beauty and redemption from them. It's bittersweet and beautiful.

>>902 >>1880 Great recs will check em out Also if anyone is interested you can check tss dot asenheim dot org They have made available online some old VNs and you can play in your browser (with saves) Some really good ones there icl the first i ever played,Nocturnal Illusion Check Paradise Heights if you have internet and a couple of hours to kill.

>>1457 Seconding Subahibi. It's a unique and unforgettable wild ride. Even if you don't end up loving it (like I do) it will certainly be an interesting experience.

>>823 I'm not much of a VN guy, but I really enjoyied Utawarerumono

>>841 not to mention PSVita

OK.

https://vndb.org/v496 Weird but cool, I like this one.

Was this ever completed? https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/697640

Why haven't anyone mentioned root double and chaos;child yet Also, >>1413 ^^

>>2268 what is this furry soykaf?

I must be the only one who played Mayjasmine on this site. Feels good.

>>2264 Just finished Eden* and can recommend it as well. It's so nice and refreshing seeing VNs with the guts to do unique settings instead of anime high school. Protag isn't a pussy, is a no nonsense, professional, military guy sent to protect robot girl on remote island while she designs engines of the ships that will take humans away from Earth before the coming apocalypse. The bit after they leave the island isn't as good but still kept me interested until the end. The developers have done another android love VN that I'm going to check out called Trinoline.

>>2294 THANK YOU! Root Double is so painfully underrated.

Ill second grisaia, luckily I found the visual novel before the show completely by accident, (saw some strange show with a blonde Afro guy fighting a trex and got the two mixed up) but its awesome.

>>823 I love Monika!

428: Shibuya Scramble is a fun and underrated game. The whole cast is a lot of fun and the execution of the story is very interesting. You jump back and forth between different characters who keep getting in the way of each other and have to find out a path that lets everyone get what they need to move on. It's VERY Japanese though, it feels a lot like a Japanese live action TV show in pretty much every way, so the absurd comedy works amazingly while some of the heavy drama falls on its face.

Any non-anime VNs, that are not about chasing moe waifus? I wonder if someone made something unorthodox with the medium.

>>2728 There are if you start looking through various tags Some are translated some are not I dont know what you mean by unorthodox There are a lot of vns that incorporate elements from rpgs and other genres but after some point they stop being vns and become rpgs with a lot of dialogs.You can search with multiple tags at vndb and find exactly what you want no matter how niche.

>>2728 tag in picrel has 4700 results

>>2728 428 Shibuya Scramble is entirely live action except for a bonus chapter. Phenomono was drawn by Yoshitoshi ABe. Fata Morgana has a pseudo-classical style.

El Psy Congroo.

>>1652 >>2264 These two hit me in the feels I didn't think I'd have at my age. I now wonder a wasteland full of over sexualized garbage, looking for another does. I'd also recomend >Digital: A Love Story and its sequel >Analogue: A Hate Story Both present the player as essentual an unnamed user behind a terminal. A bit of a gimmick to be sure. But the result is oddly isolated, disjointed, and immersive.

>>2787 Digital gives a cool glimpse to what old BBS were like, even if its somewhat inaccurate in ways.

Why are there so many proprietary visual novels compared to libre ones? Technically speaking it's not that hard to make one especially if you use a framework such as ren'py.

>>2875 There's already plenty of Renpy games out there, and the way they're exported let you look through their source code and other files. Though if you mean libre in the sense of "I can fork this VN on GitHub" then not many would let you, artists and writers usually like to be given some credit for their works or at least ask for permission before altering anything. The only one I can think of that actively encourage modification of the source material is DDLC and Katawa Shoujo with how many mods and spinoffs using official artwork there are.

>>2264 >>1652 nice ones..really easy to miss in a sea of nukige The sega saturn vn of utena has received a fan translation.Im not a huge fan but i think there are some people here who enjoyed the series it works with emulators.

>>2875 artists want to get paid

>>2878 not on my watch

>>2875 There's a lot of industries out there that just don't care about FOSS. Unfortunately.

>>2877 Never heard about this one Thanks for revealing it to me

What communities are there around the internet devoted to VN devs and such? I've got a soft spot for the medium, would love to score some. Just no idea where to look!

>>2883 lemmasoft is the big one there's also /r/vndevs on plebbit and various Discord communities

>>2884 lemmasoft is new to me, I'll check it out, thanks. I check that sub occasionally but I can't stand reddit, and discord is, well, discord.

>>3013 I played a little bit though. I was too impatient to keep going with it though.

>>841 confy game, can't wait for the sequel to come out

>>902 It was made by iichan anons actually

Hello Can anyone recommend a good vn that came out in recent years?

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>>823 literally anything by Ryukishi07, and I'm with the other anons if you haven't played VA-11 HALLA would definitely recommend. also, Planetarian, Little Busters, and Symphonic Rain are pretty good.

>>3656 >VA-11 HALL-A Let me know when it's re-released as a 64-bit program or source becomes available. Paid for it, downloaded it, and was never able to run it due to 32-bit dumbness.

>>3664 Are you on a mac?

>>3664 No, modern Linux. At the moment, Fedora 32, but I've been trying to get this game running on various distros for the past two years. "It's as easy as installing 32-bit libraries" they say. Bah, nothing works. And I'm no idiot at this stuff - hell, I build LFS every few years just for fun. But there's always some weird little 32-bit officially-unavailable library needed. I've wasted enough time over the years trying to get it working. I'll wait for the source code or a re-release made for a modern architecture.

>>901 Its a poor gateway as for most users it reinforces the idea that visual novels are all stupid anime dating sims and that DDLC is some deconstructive exception to the genre thanks it fourth wall breaking instead of actually showing what the medium can do. Katawa Shoujo is the better gateway drug because regardless of your opinion on its quality it gets people playing it because "its that 4chan cripple dating game" and then surprises them by showing what the medium can achieve while not perpetuating myths of what the medium consists of.

Somehow, the Tsukihime remake has finally gotten an update.

The Silver Case by Suda51 has some crazy lain vibes from the atmosphere and music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoChQ1T3Ja0 Really surprised it isn't as popular as it is considering its by the No More Heroes/Killer7 guy.

>>2954 this is probably my favourite vn so far

>>3762 I've played games through ONScripter before natively on Linux https://onscripter.osdn.jp/onscripter.htm

Subahibi has the best use of changing perspectives I've ever seen, and I think a lot of lainons might like it since it's denpa, the same small genre that SEL is in, and it some pretty interesting philosophical themes.

>>2264 It was made into an anime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c58dUTkYzrM

>>4318 I did not know that.

Picked up an Eroge called Majikoi Love Me Seriously on a whim and it's slow, but kinda interesting. The sporty redhead and the punchy fight girl are cool.

>>4861 I hear its no good

>>3243 Give ISLAND a shot. The writing isn't the best, but the girls are nice and plot is fun. I didn't like it at first, but it opened up after a while and impressed me. I'm honestly kinda sad that its over, and think it could be open to a sequel, but it probably won't. I actually came here to talk about it. Anyone else play it recently? I thought it could have been better, but it still wormed it's way into my heart and I've been thinking about it for a few days now. Its Switch Port is top notch. I was shocked how much effort they put into it.

Hi lainons, I've started playing Katawa Shoujo (9 years late, I know) and since this is the VN thread I'd like to share my musings about it if that's alright. Emi (1/?): Just finished Katawa Shoujo for the first time on Emi's good ending. And the feels. On one hand I'm glad Emi was happy in the end, being able to open up to Hisao, no longer fearing losing him, just happy for him to be with her. On the other hand I'm sorry that she had to go through so much hurt, that Hisao couldn't help her earlier. At least its inspired me to try and help people IRL, I don't want people to hurt by themselves. I'm playing Hanako's route now, I'll come back once I'm done with that.

>>4214 the biggest problem with subahibi is that after you read it you've already read the best visual novel so now all other visual novels are never going to live up to the high you experienced reading subahibi so you'll spend 2 years of your life reading pornographic power-point games in search for that experience and you will read the tractatus logico philosophicum and then realise wittgenstein basically obesolted it with philosophical observations and tractatus is basically just there to troll logical positivists and subahibi is the only good thing to ever come out of it and your life will slowly spiral as you pray every night that sakura no uta gets an english translation slowly going insane

Anyone else backing Girls? Girls? Girls!? I

>ctrl+f Muramasa >no hits One of the most acclaimed VNs ever made just got translated into English.

I never really got into VNs. Forever ago I played Katawa Shoujo (Emi and Lilly), and earlier this year I replayed Emi's route. I liked it, but my problem with VNs is that there's too much reading for it to be like manga or anime and too much imagery to be plain reading. I can relax while watching anime or reading books on an e-reader, but VNs are much less comfy for me to read. I would prefer reading a light novel style "major illustrations in-between pages of words" over making the same few static models change facial expression in between the one-to-two lines that pressing the spacebar causes to appear, though you would probably need a lot more images than a regular LN. Maybe I'm just autistic.

>>5307 It's nice seeing that Katawa Shoujo still being played. Reading it lead to a series of events that ultimately changed my life forever, it is crazy to think but my life would be completely different if it was not for some anons getting together and writing this game.

>>5317 Thanks lainon, I'm interested what this series of events is, if you don't mind me asking. Katawa Shoujo has changed my way of thinking and acting a lot even I haven't 100%'ed it yet. >>5307 Hanako (2/?): The first thing that strikes me about Hanako is her as a character. Despite not having played all the routes I wonder I feel as though Hanako might end up being my favorite character, I have a few ideas though. Firstly, the lessons her story teaches are profound and leave an impact, having changed the way I think and act, even more so than Emi. Secondly, I think Hanako is quite similar to some girls with whom I have interacted with in the past, and perhaps more importantly, to girls that I believe had an interest in me, even if not romantically, but as taking me as a close friend. Regrettably, I never tried to get close to these girls (romantically, platonically or otherwise), but Hanako poses a “what if?”, showing that in the future I should put more effort into pulling back a curtain of shyness, as it my pay of handsomely. Finally, I believe I can empathise with her situation. I am by no means petrified when speaking to people, nor to I flee from strangers. Despite this, I don’t believe I would have played a visual novel from 2012, conceived on the “/a/ - Anime “ board of 4chan, a website stereotypically for outcast, nerds and miscreants, if I were a socially normal person. I can empathise with the feeling of being an outsider and having very few close friends. The two main lessons in her story are not to judge, and to treat people like people. These may seem very obvious but you might not put these ideas into practice if you don't experience them yourself (or vicariously through Hisao. I was shocked when I found a quiet girl like Hanako liked singing, don't judge a book by its cover. An idea carries over from Emi's route too, be there for someone unconditionally, but give them their space, and don't baby them. Apart from the lessons about treating other people there are messages about how to treat yourself. Mutou pulls Hisao aside at one point and talks to him about his future, how Yamuku gives him so much, and how importantly he must make time for himself with sacrificing his relationships. "Shanghai Studiousness" is the best example of this. Hisao makes time for his own business while still hanging out with Hanako. Sorry if this was long or rambling, I felt I needed to get my thoughts into words and have someone else see them. I'm writing a PDF essay on this topic which will hopefully be more refined, which I will release with my last post on this game.

Morning, dead inter. I wanna ask you about Sakura No Uta. Have anyone played that yet? Is it that great?

>>5319 Hanako is a sweetheart. Hope you enjoy her story. not sure if you've gotten this far yet, but her mental breakdown was so realistic that I had flashbacks to my own breakdowns. Crazy stuff. Katawa Shoujo has some really rough writing, but I think that's what makes it so impactful to the reader.

Read Kara no Shoujo and Yumemiru Kusuri recently. KnS was decent, solid 7/10. Yumemiru was so very promising, but ended up about as generic as you can get. 5.5/10. VN's I think lainons might enjoy are Symphonic Rain and Narcissu. Maybe Higurashi.

Anyone have any otome recs?

>>5595 I've heard great things about Sweet Fuse: At Your Side. It looks pretty good, but I haven't had time to get around to it myself. >>5345 I've heard great things about that one too, If you haven't already given it a go, I would. I've been reading The Fruit of Grisaia lately. Its nice to have an MC whose his own character and not a self insert. I think I get more out of an MC with his own personality than one I self Insert into.

Anyone in here read Totono? OP, if you liked DDLC, you might enjoy it as well. I think it's a much more interesting and unique take on what DDLC tries to tackle, and it's actually made by the Japanese. >>5618 I've read all three Grisaia games, and the first two games were pretty good. I didn't like the third one as much, I thought the plot was too stupid, but some other people have told me you need to go in expecting a fun time and not expect that much - which I found weird considering the tone of the first two games - but if you want to read the entire triology, you might want to keep that in mind.

>>5621 I just finished the first Grisaia. It was good, but long, depressing, and the final route wasnt the even the best one. I'm conflicted

>>5647 Grisaia's route system is not linear, there's not really a proper order. You're supposed to just pick and choose, none of them are locked.

I heard good things about Euphoria. I watched the series and it had a strange plot. I suggest trying it out.

>>5621 >>5647 >>5650 Finished the second one now. Started the third and can see where this story is going. Not sure if its what I wanna read. Seems a bit silly of a concept considering the circumstances. Maybe its time I give Clannad or Little Busters a play. Also, the switch version that I was playing had a picture from the Yumiko route as the icon for the first Grisaia game. Sure made it seem like they had an ending they wanted to push to the forefront of your mind.

>>5652 I tried it; would not recommend.... very long dialogues with extra fudge

>>823 has anyone checked out some indie western releases? coquette dragoon and archangel nemesis come to mind.

>>1413 I think you should try the visual novel called "Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk" (yes, that's the name). It's pretty well crafted horror visual novel (it even includes some animations). I would say more, but I don't want to go into spoiler territory. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1604000/Milk_outside_a_bag_of_milk_outside_a_bag_of_milk/

>>6148 >I think you should try the visual novel called "Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk" (yes, that's the name). Ah yes, the sequel to "Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk.". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Inside_a_Bag_of_Milk_Inside_a_Bag_of_Milk btw. you are replying to an almost 3 year old comment, (not that there is anything wrong with that).

>>6148 Let me guess, the protagonist is a trans/lesbian, woman with depression and some kind of anxiety disorder? I can't blame society for giving these people the spotlight, considering that saying you're having a panic attack or anxiety attack is all the rage these days, but truthfully I cannot emphasize or care for media which revolves around such sad, self-defeatist and retarded people. If I wanted to go through a story with a protagonist with the personality of a broken condom and sewage chemicals, I'd watch Bleach.

>>6244 > the protagonist is a trans/lesbian No. > woman with depression and some kind of anxiety disorder? You would probably suffer from an anxiety disorder too if your father decided to commit suicide in front of your eyes by jumping out of a window and shattering into thousand pieces, painting the nearby street with his blood and gore.

>>6244 >Let me guess You are condemning something you know zero about based on what you assume it is dealing with. Yeah.... people like you go far in life.

>>6257 I don't care one way or another but, they really do usually do go far in life.

How viable is reading visual novels in a windows 10 virtual machine? Wine just isn't working no matter what I do. Would you have to do gpu pass through or will it run decently as is? I just really want to read visual novels again I fuarrrking hate this soykaf.

>>6275 >Would you have to do gpu pass through or will it run decently as is? I used to use VirtualBox for playing Runescape a few years ago and I didn't need any special setup or GPU pass through.

I haven't played many for a while. I really liked the mechanics in Long Live the Queen where everyone wanted to assasinate you, and Suzzeraine was okay. I also played a lot of classic older ones like MuvLuv Alternative, Fate/Starry Night, and all the melodrama by KEY, but I can't recommend most of those games because they took too long and needed an editor to ruthlessly cut them down to size. I even stopped playing eroge for porn because it was too frustrating to solve narrative puzzles and skip text for extended periods of time when I could just look up CGs or animations/videos online. Seldom have I felt like visual novels respected my time so I gradually lost interest in playing them.

>>6275 For me, qemu + virt-manager works great without any special tweaks and runs about as well as a mid-tier laptop. What VNs is Lain reading at the minute? I've been working my way through Higurashi (which is amazing) and I've recently started reading Saya no Uta, which is already freaky but interesting. I really want to read more VNs because by list has been piling up; Narcissu is high on my wishlist. If you have 10 minutes to burn, try OMGWTFOTL (https://apothes.is/hosted/at2006/omgwtfotl.html)

Hey guys, can someone recommend me a few cute romance VNs/dating sims? Preferably non-pornographic and not too sad. I was playing Summer Pockets recently and I had never felt so sad in my entire life.

>>6793 Some nukige have a decent story. I prefer eroge like Bible Black or Discipline because it's not a mindless series of sex scenes as their story impoves them. >>6849 eden* might be your thing if you pick the all ages version. https://vndb.org/v1286

Scar of the doll. it has 2 versions, a 90s version and a 2022 remaster. I like the art of the 90s version better. >Asumi goes to Tokyo to search for her only sister whom she has mysteriously not heard from for months. With an intelligent and unpredictable story, uncover a frightening truth in this thrilling suspense mystery.

>>830 Yeah I liked it quite a bit too. Bluemaxima's flashpoint has it and is easy to use.

>>898 I've heard good things about snoot game. 4channel game made as a sassy reply to an lgbt game, main theme is personal growth. https://snootgame.xyz/

Hey, looking for a VN where the main character isn't too annoying and doesn't have a weird/annoying voice. I was never really a VN guy, Summer Pockets is my favourite one but I'm not a fan of the MC. A dating sim where the male lead isn't voiced at all would also be nice maybe, but I don't know if these are a thing.

>>6850 Thanks, I will be playing eden soon! (i was that lainon, had forgotten about this thread) Sage for doublepost

I'm kind of surprised nobody mentioned "One shot in the dark now I'm dead" (https://vndb.org/v32085) I think the Va-11 Hall-A devs are involved somehow. It has a particularly lainchan aesthetic and a lot of Lain references. It's also quite short, free, playable online and worth playing, I would say probably 20-30 mins long. I enjoyed it.

VNCUP 2023 https://visualnovel.neocities.org/ A collection of visual novels made by indie artists, writers, and devs. I have worked on one for the project as well, and I'm here to promote it and the vncup as a whole! Please let me know what you think about any vns you read from the project. https://prairieland.itch.io/nvm

Any thoughts on The House in Fata Morgana? I've heard quite a few people say that it's one of the best VNs or even pieces of media that they've experienced. Just want to hear a few more opinions before committing myself to a 30+h VN.

I've always wanted to write a VN but I really suck at writing characters

Katawa is so good, just depressing as hell. I came looking for chill VN, I left mildly traumatized

the silver case and the 25th ward are my personal favorites, while not a vn i also recommend Flower, Sun and Rain, real comfy game. Some other visual novels that i'd highly recommend are: Chaos;Head, I/O, Tsukihime, Chaos;Child and SubaHibi real good stories and pretty long like 50h+ iirc

I LOVE 2236 A.D, it makes me long for an ai assistant that is knowledgeable and also friendly. It's inspired me to learn javascript and phyton in order to program my own ai. The art is not the best but I like the ideas the story brings.

>>5311 This was not worth backing.

>>7261 Sometimes the stories within the stories can drag a bit (that girl at the beach...boring!) but the music is really good, and the main story is really good too. I probably cried like 3 times reading this for the first time. It's also hilarious in the sense that it's a top ranked nintendo switch game on metacritic, which generates assloads of Nintendo fanboy seethe. I don't have a lot of experience with VNs but reading The House in Fata Morgana made me want to!

I'm playing Fate stay night, I finished Fate and UBW, I'm only missing Heaven feel's. It's a simple fighting shonen but simply with overexposure, Shirou is the most retarded protagonist I've seen on any weeb media, the message is stupid, especially in UBW. Should I follow a stupid ideal, which is not mine, impossible to achieve despite the fact that I have before my eyes (Archer) the proof that this ideal is impossible and will only lead me to my own misery and suffering and anyway I will be forced to sacrifice people? Shirou gives a fuarrrking idealistic and ridiculous answer like: "living with that ideal is beautiful" About the fate route, it's ridiculous to fuarrrk and have a romance with the caricaturization of King Arthur, from his route the only positive thing I can get is the message that the past can't be changed and you have to accept it, however, did anyone feel like hitting Shirou's head with a stone when in the fate route in the end of the date with saber, shirou tells her that she must live to her self and must abandon her desire? I mean how childish and hypocritical Shirou literally is the guy - even the characters themselves remind you of this - who puts the lives of others before his own. The only thing I liked about this vn for now; was the music, the backgrounds, the designs, some fights that I find entertaining to read, the hentai scenes, although forced, seemed good to me as hentai scenes, the great universe that it presents is very expandable, some characters like Caster, Tiger, Gilgamesh, etc (it's not that they are good characters, they just don't break many plates). I'm going to read Heaven feel, I've read that it's the best route and that Shirou isn't an idealistic retard like in the others, I hope it's not a disaster

>>8198 I'd say keep going. Shirou reaches a contradiction on his ideal and has to question it in 3rd act. If it bothered you so much, you should see it to the end, even though Rin is still best girl.

>>8199 >Rin is still the best girl. Nah, she's a textbook tsundere, it's wired to me how in route fate she's a slut and has no problem kissing shirou and fuarrrk to saber to the point of giving her oral sex while shirou penetrates to saber -basically a threesome-, implying as if she's had some sexual experience, but in UBW, she's very prudish with him when it comes to having sex, embarrassing herself by getting naked, and not wanting Shirou to do weird things to her. although I still like her hentai scene.

just finished steins;gate all 6 endings. I see why people like it so much now... The true ending, ironically, had an almost "too good to be true" vibe and lowered my suspension of disbelief just a teeny bit. I did like it though and I'd be lying if it didn't make me feel "that feeling" (you know the one) The part that REALLY got me, though, was the first time I got Kurisu's ending. The part when she bursts through the door near the end with that sad smile on her face, "We didn't say goodbye!"... Then Okabe IMMEDIATELY smashes the enter key because he knows if he listens he won't be able to go through with it. Kurisu can't even manage to stammer out an "I love you" before it activates... Oh my goodness, that soykaf knocked me out

>>5319 To be honest, I thought Emi was one of the less interesting routes. Hanako is up there. I've gone through all routes of the game. I first played it as a teenager seven years ago, thinking it was some eroge crap. I did Lilly, Emi, Rin, and the secret one. Of course, I found that I was very wrong. Last year I finally finished it, with Hanako and Shizune. It speaks to the staying power of the game, the way it transcends expectations and emotional barriers. It has done so much for the respect of the medium, even though "that game about disabled chicks made by 4chan" tends to strut ahead of real judgment of the novel.

>>8200 >Nah, she's a textbook tsundere, it's wired to me how in route fate she's a slut and has no problem kissing shirou and fuarrrk to saber to the point of giving her oral sex while shirou penetrates to saber -basically a threesome-, implying as if she's had some sexual experience, but in UBW, she's very prudish with him when it comes to having sex, embarrassing herself by getting naked, and not wanting Shirou to do weird things to her. Huh, I thought we were still talking about Katawa Shoujo... dunno how the hell the armless girl's threesome slipped my mind?

Talking about Steins;Gate but not mentioning the rest of the SciADV series should be a crime

>>8272 what's the best one to play next? do any of them hit as hard? I'm in the middle of S;G0 rn which, so far, isn't as good. It does have some nice moments but the non-okabe-POV scenes are killing me

>>8273 firstly you need to play the series by release order , Meaning you should play Chaos Head. The reason S;G0 doesn't hit as good is because you don't really understand the context it gives to the series as a whole. Plz search up SciADV release order

>>8234 KS playtester here. Emi route is solid but she wasn't my favorite either.

Amagami is a pretty fun dating sim, all the characters are pretty lively.

Recently I played most of the way through Damekoi. I had to stop because it was kind of turning into suicide fuel.

>>8276 Without spoilers, what IS that context? If you don't mind to explain, of course.

>>8273 Chaos;Head -> Chaos;Child Also read a bunch of Jung before Chaos;Child.

subahibi was the first vn ive read and still till this day my favourite the third chapter was pratically looking at my life from an outside perspective my every thought was on screen it was perfect for me i read it at the perfect time so ill recommend it just know its got alot of messed up things in there oh and dont get it off steam but if u do get a patch to get all the other chapters

full metal daemon muramasa is a vn i can definitely recommend if you like mechas, good world building, chunnige, great fight scenes, and insanly good characters be warned tho it has dark contents and not so nice hscenes to put it simple "this is not a story about heroes" even if u might not see the appeal from what i said before u should give it a shot the first chapter might be slow but it picks up alot after dont look up a guide till ur on a route u will notice when thst happens after that u can use a guide if u like its kinda needed for nemesis route aka kanaes route

>>8614 i just started it, i heard a bit of unsavoury things in the game but so far i like it - ive seldom played VNs, especially the more like "traditional" ones like this. with buttons for save and load etc at the bottom - well ive played one or two but very briefly: higurashi and Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~ i really liked milk outside a bag of milk, i played milk1 before but it was too short and scary - much like one of the milk2 endings. also sorcery! is more like a computer gamebook - as the source material is literally a gamebook, medieval fantasy setting with just the best audio experience ever. easily my favourite - and you can get it on mobile too, only thing is that you have to buy the game 3 times (part 1 & 2 together, then parts 3 and 4) p.s this is my first (maybe last) lainchan post. i dont go on here often cause i feel stupid compared to all u guys.. :(

>>8623 >played milk1 before but it was too short and scary i get why people would find it scary but it was weirdly cozy for me, maybe because a lot of her coping mechanisms felt familiar. wish i could find more VNs like the first game. q.u.q. had amazing art but the writing felt weaker than the milk games >feel stupid compared to all u guys youre not please stay

>>824 Huh yeah I guess 6 years ago seems about ri- wait holy soykaf

very, very well made game, everyone should play it

Started Kara No Shoujo a few days ago, hit several bad endings so far. Got to the part where Kasuka gets caught and arrested and am now searching for Shinzo Mamiya in the wake of the next killing No clue if I'm on track for a good ending or not. Love it.

>>823 I reading tsukihime. I finish arcueid and ciel route; and is a "sad" that in the true endings arcueid dont staying with Shiki. Nasu give sad endings to the blonde heroins. I have contact with other vn of this autor (fate). The vn is ok and shiki like protagonist is something meh (for now) i would like hear your toughts, experencies, etc.

>>8646 Finished KnS. I liked it a lot, minus the h scenes. My favorite characters were probably Tojiko RIP and Toko. Uozumi was great too, he had a real good vibe with the MC. The plot got a little hard to follow but I'm not smart Started Higurashi and Ever17 (not the steam version, the himmel-patched old version). Too early on in both to really have any opinions yet.

I'm not sure what the proper price expectations for a VN are, but I am reasonably sure that Saeko: Giantess Dating Sim is overpriced. ~4-5 hours runtime if you are exhausting all possible lines of dialog, at $10-15 (depending on dlsite version vs steam version, ASMR-inclusion, OST etc). I'm not 100% sure what market or demographic of games it should be compared with at price points though. There's a fetish premium added to games but I'm not sure if the content of this game is more fetish-critical than fetish-satisfactory. That premium should probably be waived. It is nice to see some work being done in a nonstandard engine.

Does the Cyberpunk bar tender game count as a visual novel?

tsukihime anything by nadia nova esspecially slime feet saya no uta obv but lainanon already mentioned

Nie no Hakoniwa is a masterpiece and nobody can convince me otherwise. (Ignore how much gore it has and how there's not a single sane person in it.)

>>8808 more guro = more good

>>8807 nadia nova is pretty good other indie tran vns are good too you should check out HEATWAVE

playing t2ukihime on phone is a crazy experience

>>8821 who is the best tsukihime? arc or ciel

>>8827 Kohaku and Hisui clear both and it's not close.

>>8828 big if true... sad no route for sachin

woa so nice to finally find this thread what are good starting points for getting into visual novels i cant read japanese unfortunately also are there any good chinese visual novel?

>>8816 See, this guy gets it.

does anyone like yuri VNs? any recs? i feel like a lot of yuri manga tends to have tired tropes and i'm kind of done reading about high schoolers and "b-b-but we're both girls" type of bullshit lmao. i have a hunch that there's better stuff when it comes to yuri VNs but i'm not sure where to start i've heard seabed is good, but i'm still debating on whether to get it or not. has anyone played it and if you have, what did you think?

>>8835 iif you dont mind the indie scene theres another good one thats kinda gorey called absolutely perfect specimen >>8837 there are so many good ones in the indie scene on itchio btu also like if you want official titles you should check out amelie doree for recs she covers a whole bunch a lot of her vids are very summary, but she also covers a lot of untranslated stuff one i would absolutely recomend even if you dont like the indie vn scene is hopeless junction its so good it just got remastered

>>823 Discipline: Record of a Crusade is where its at for me.

readiing subahibi but like very veyr slowly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cneGsd8l0vI https://boards.4chan.org/int/thread/216690156 https://vndb.org/v18636/cv

>>8844 The article mentions norwegian police was informed by american NCMEC and the game found on his computer by police together with explicit images and videos. The accused pleads not guilty as he choosed not to enable explicit images. Im not norwegian and have a hard time reading the soykafty image but I believe it mentions at the end that he has been in prison for 3 months before for posession of images and now hes facing 3 years for repeating his mistakes.

>>826 Neon Genesis Evangelion was my first mecha anime (if we don't count that 1968 anime about ghost ship vs huge robot... this and Super Sentai) Luckily, I watched Ghost in the Shell before Serial Experiments Lain, so no "SEL was my first cyb anime" misfortune. >>6793 >I haven't played many for a while. I really liked the mechanics in Long Live the Queen where everyone wanted to assasinate you too bad you cannot go full evil witch route that proceeds to produce new Lumen crystals

A linear visual novel released a few days ago for free on Steam called ZATO I love the world and everything in it. Set in the good ol' USSR. Started playing yesterday and it seems good so far. I am liking the atmosphere and music a lot, and the main character is painfully relatable

every like 5 umineko chapters im convinced its the best visual novel ever made ik its prolly not as popular here but its still a banger

>>8860 umineko is okay what episode are you on ? it only really starts getting good after episode 4

>>8862 >>8844 average scandanavian country

>>8849 thii2 2hiit look2 2iick a2 hell

>>8849 holy soykaf someone else on lainchan knows zato? its so peak

>>8831 Admittedly haven't played much of it, but I've enjoyed what I've played of Far Away. It's basically about steampunk gangsters

anyone here like nadia nova? i think that hopeless junction is really good also like malcatras maiden has a lot of like references to classic vns

>>8877 ive been playing through hopeless junction. i liked divine despair deviance, though i think the storytelling could be a little smoother

>>8879 DDD is rlly good imo malcatras is like i appreciate all the references i feel like the chuuni powers could be more well implemented i think snowcorpse is one of the best ones she has made

>>8880 i need to replay DDD while on psychadelics

Does anyone remember a cyb noire visual novel made by a lainon? It was in beta the last time I saw it. The only thing I remember about it is that some people hacked a body-machine interface. The anon also posted the engine written for the game, a single JavaScript file I might also want in the future. It was on itch.io and you could play in the browser.

>>8887 Found it on Internet Archive: https://qrayz.itch.io/g277-visual-novel-tech-demo This file seems to be the engine, but it probably has bugs that were fixed later.

>>8862 im like just finished episode 3 its rlly good prolly one of the best vns ive read most likely cause it doesnt involve me looking at shiit that gives me flashbacks

>>8890 umineko being the best thing ever written award

>>8899 Holy soykaf you dumb glitterboy. Nobody wants to share your degenerate CP addiction

higurashi > umineko in spite of how entertaining it was, the answer arcs of the latter really pissed me off. higurashi is just more concise and has more thriller, and i think love is a rather cheap theme

>>8899 who the fuarrrk r u replying to

There's this obscure one I found earlier this month called Abyss Veil. I'm not too big on VNs but I've got it on sale, It's like the dev wanted to make a FPS and a Visual Novel to just strap both together. The music was nice and the dialogues were entertaining enough to get me reading. I'll look at the suggestions here, I guess I could give some VNs a shot

>>8909 ill check it out perhaps... seems sick

Saw this last night on indie live expo. There is an open playtest currently but I can't get past a certain section of the game so hopefully everything gets fixed soon. It's called "All Our Broken Parts". Basically you're a doctor in the average dystopian future where you can interact with the hardware in peoples heads.

>>8913 this looks pretty sick when does it come out ??

>>8913 I like how the art looks. Got more images of it?

>>8917 its rlly funny that they talked but didnt link the itch.io page or steam page here u go / https://tinbirdgames.itch.io/all-our-broken-parts

>>8916 TBA >>8917 yep >>8918 My apologies https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473430/All_Our_Broken_Parts/ Updates in discord: https://discord.com/invite/8bmremAps8

>>8919 this art is sick as hell thanks... ill definately check that out lainons we should make a vn reading group like book club for vns

been lacking in my vn reading unfortunately almost done with first part of subahibi almost done with arc route almost done with umineko questions arc barely started higurashi what are lains opinions on citizensleeper?

>>8922 Limbus players just can't read. It's something I suffer from too. I dropped Chaos;Head and Gore Screaming Show.

>>831 im not huge on visual novels, becuase i dont have a windows operating system that said, i have to imagine "i didnt jerk off for a whole month" is high praise

>>8924 its so fuarrrking easy to read vns not on windows read sayanouta rn litterally pirate + wine easiest soykaf ever

>>8923 i finish at least 1 vn permonth or try to at least unfortunately all the ones im currently playing are long asf

>>8924 I've played a few dozen VNs w/ Lutris, don't think I've had any trouble so far.

Check out Phenomeno for an occult spooky mystical story. It has really neat night atmosphere with amazing soundtrack that fits right in. It is pretty short though—around 3 hours—so better read it in the evening with lights out. There's only one chapter which is really sad because I wish there were more of them. VN itself is a promotion material to the original light novel, so if you get grabbed into the story go read the book despite how scary it sounds to touch letters without pictures. https://vndb.org/v10526

Whatever happened to the Tell-Tale game studio? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telltale_Games

>>8849 Can confirm its a great story, best to go into it blind and stick with it. Pretty cute.

>>8614 >>4214 just read subahibi. lifes changed. thats all.

>>9044 zato was amazing, can confirm

Came to this thread to see if someone mentioned ZATO, seems multiple people have lol. It's awesome, in fact it impressed me enough that I've been working on a translation of it to my language. It seems to have already gained a decent amount of traction, I wonder if it could become a big hit. I've seen some online suppose that the author was definitely inspired by Lain, I mean ZATO seems pretty unique but some similarities do poke the eye.

Z.A.T.O. was great, the kind of aesthetic i want to see more. i actually bought the extra art pack to support the creator and apparently the game was inspired by a story by Vladimir Sorokin, "Падёж" or "Murrain"

let's all love asya I fuarrrking love ZATO

why are these always a 5/10 experience? i'm inclined to picture whoever says a visual novel is life-changing as a teenager at the most i think i felt especially disillusioned at umineko's answer arcs where after the vn wasted enough time in the earlier arcs and ryukishi's friend/ghost writer/secret lover croaked he decides to fall on his face and give such soykaf answers to the whole thing (both the who and how). i seriously think most visual novel readers have stockholm syndrome seeing how all the acclaimed vns are so long >>9043 didn't they go bankrupt? i think adventure games are different from vns 'non...

downloaded steins gate like a few years ago but never played it. is it any good/different from the anime? Also muv-luv is cool, very reccomended if you enjoy lacrosse.

Let's all love Satoko. RIP Ciconia.

>>825 it was my gateway and i didnt know about visual novels before it. i played it because my then girlfriend was mega obsessed with it. i really liked it and dont think i wouldve ever gotten into vn's without ddlc

>>9122 satoko is p cool but that is the worst version of the vn the og was like way better ngl

>>9081 zato was neat. wish there were more games like it

>>9177 read more vns my friend, that is what inspired ZATO

>>9171 you mean the console visuals? they are the best. i can only agree that mangagamer visuals suck.

>>9236 this is the best version by far

>>9177 someone already pointed this out but litterally just read the things that inspired it. subahibi, milk, ect everything had a before and there will be works after replying to ZATO but the whole medium itself is intertwined beggining you to just read more visual novels

>>9081 ZATO wears its inspiration on its sleeve, there are many similarities to other itchio vns like nadia novas work among others ZATO is amazing but if anything it should get more people to read more visual novels esspecially subahibi

there's no game quite like the most dangerous game of all!!!!