====== Recommendations ======

===== Japanese Native =====

  * [[https://sites.google.com/view/rvisualnovels-japanese-recs/home|r/visualnovels recommends]]

  * [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KnyyDt7jimEz-dgeMSKymRaT2r3QKBPm9AzqZ6oUWAs/pub|Starter Japanese Media]]

  * [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSoafwp4Ig2hqG1n_vH2WP2QFMPeWD08fo4k-jfGceMmDDDRdFSbkAQyMpV_mbhFaIHuSmrOC69mWTi/pub|VN Difficulty List]]

  * [[https://ch.dlsite.com/matome/116717|Big List of NSFW Otome Games in Japanese]] - Otome Games (乙女ゲーム) are visual novels directed at women, where you play as a woman and your objective is to romance one of several men. This is a big list of such games playable in 日本語. Of this list, //[[https://www.mangagamer.com/r18/detail.php?goods_type=0&product_code=1206|Fxxx Me Royally!! Horny Magical Princess]]// and //[[https://www.mangagamer.com/r18/detail.php?goods_type=0&product_code=1029|Little Miss Lonesome]]// are available in English.


===== English Translated =====

  * [[https://sites.google.com/view/rvisualnovels-recs/|r/visualnovels recommends]]

  * [[https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/17140|/vg/'s Plot VN Recommendations, 2015 edition]]

  * [[https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/38314|/vn/'s Moe VN Recs, 2021 edition]]

===== English Native =====

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.

^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]]                                                                                                                                        |