A visual novel (VN) is a form of digital interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with the medium of video games, but are not always labeled...

The Visual Novel Database (rendered as vndb or VNDB) is an online database, wiki and Internet forum for visual novels. As of 2019, the VNDB had catalogued...

list of visual novel engines. Digital Novel Markup Language (DNML) is one of the first scripting language game engines for creating visual novels, also...

Clannad is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key and released on April 28, 2004, for Windows. While both of Key's first two previous works, Kanon and...

Japanese visual novel studio known for making dramatic and plot-oriented titles. It was formed on July 21, 1998, as a brand under the publisher Visual Arts...

a Japanese author, best known for writing the light novel The Garden of Sinners and visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night, and a co-founder of Type-Moon...

Hepburn: Urobuchi Gen, born December 20, 1972) is a Japanese novelist, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter. He is known for being the co-creator of...

Various adaptations of Silent Hill have been released, including a 2001 visual novel, the 2006 feature film Silent Hill, and a 2009 reimagining of the game...

spelled in English as VisualArt's, is a Japanese publishing company which specializes in publishing and distributing visual novels for a large list of game...

released in April 2014. A sequel film was released on July 12, 2014. A visual novel is also in development by Otomate. A sequel anime project was announced...

collaboration with Nitroplus. The main entries mostly take the form of visual novel video games. The series currently consists of six mainline entries: the...

novelist, manga artist and screenwriter. He is the chairman of Japanese visual novel studio Minato Soft. He is best known for his anime and manga series Akame...

damage and casualties across the country. The game is presented as a visual novel in a 2.5D sidescroller, featuring pixel art in a three-dimensional environment...

Japanese television drama series, a 2012 live-action film adaptation, and a visual novel by Idea Factory. Two musical adaptations opened in 2022, with the final...

Asian markets, adventure games continue to be popular in the form of visual novels, which make up nearly 70% of PC games released in Japan. Asian countries...

lit. 'When the Cicadas Cry') is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft visual novel series produced by 07th Expansion that comprises the first two entries...

January 11, 2022. Romano, Sal (March 1, 2022). "Ghostwire: Tokyo – Prelude visual novel now available for free for PS4, launches March 8 for PC". Gematsu. Archived...

Kanon is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key, a brand of Visual Arts. It was released on June 4, 1999, for Windows as an adult game. Key later released...

as TYPE-MOON) is a Japanese video game company, best known for their visual novels, co-founded by author Kinoko Nasu and illustrator Takashi Takeuchi....

Doki Literature Club! (sometimes shortened to DDLC) is a 2017 freeware visual novel developed by American independent game studio Team Salvato for Linux...

"The First Free Visual Novel Engine Released". softpedia.com. Retrieved 4 April 2018. Dani Cavallaro (2010), Anime and the visual novel: narrative structure...

Key is a Japanese visual novel video game development studio and brand under the publisher Visual Arts. The video games developed by Key are initially...

American publishing company that focused on localizing Japanese visual novels, light novels, and manga. Located in Orange County, California, it was formed...

2018 and November 2019. In March 2017, game developer 5pb. released a visual novel based on the series. A second season aired in a split-cour format, with...

Steins;Gate is a 2009 science fiction visual novel game developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. It is the second game in the Science Adventure series, following...

Expansion is a Japanese dōjin circle specialized in the creation of visual novels. They started out drawing for the trading card game Leaf Fight, but...

composer. He is a co-founder of the visual novel brand Key under Visual Arts. He is considered a pioneer of nakige visual novels, and has mainly contributed as...

was called a "sound novel". In 1996, the new software developer and publisher Leaf expanded on this idea, calling it a visual novel and releasing their...

Monika is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club! The character was created by Dan Salvato and voiced...

Kurieitibu), officially abbreviated as Hamikuri (ハミクリ), is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Madosoft and released for Windows on September 25, 2020...