You will surely find any kind of game you want, be it fantasy, sci-fi, or medieval stories. Eroge Visual Novels – games that focus on sexual content.ĭon’t take me wrong, there are as many VN genres as there are for anime.They feature all the drama you can think of.Įxample: Clannad or any other Key Studio game Nakige Visual Novels – games that want to make you cry as hard as you can.Those games usually have routes for all main heroines and each of the routes features some CGs of the heroine you picked. Romance Visual Novels – during your playthrough you meet various numbers of heroines (or protagonists) and with your choices you pick your future “lover”.There are a lot of genres when it comes to visual novels but let’s try explaining only the most common ones: R18 patch – sometimes games ( Nekopara, Totono etc.) you buy on Steam do not have sexual content in them due to Steam’s policy, but you can buy the patch itself on the producents’ website for around $2-$3 or sometimes get it for free.įor me, personally, visual novels are books with anime visuals and choices that you, the player, have to make.Short/Medium/Long/Very Long – 2h-10h / 10h-30h / 30h-50h / 50h+ – those values are taken from vndb, a website similar to myanimelist but with visual novels instead of anime.CGs – CG is a picture in the game, it’s mainly an artwork that is displayed during a certain scene in the game.Visual novels though have various numbers of them and usually, they have only one “True Ending” Ending – yeah, you got it, it’s just an ending to the game.

Let’s say you like character X and you want the protagonist to end up together with X. Route – “path” that you take in a game.First, let me explain some of the terminologies used in the VN community that you will need in order to better understand this article:

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