The House in Fata Morgana

You wake up in a mansion. A maid with long dark hair and jade-colored eyes stands before you. Your memories are gone, you cannot see yourself, and you aren’t even sure…

Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning

Ourai no Gahkthun is the 6th game of Liarsoft’s beloved steampunk series, released back in 2012 and localized in December of last year. For those unaware of it, the series…

Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition

Root Double isn’t a visual novel we’ve heard a lot about before its early 2016 Kickstarter campaign, but it was quietly among the highest-rated VNs within the community. Directed by Nakazawa Takumi, one…

Lucid 9

An Original English Language Visual Novel set in a Japanese High School – it’s pretty much a trope in itself. It seems almost inevitable when a group makes an English…

Lucy ~the eternity she wished for~

Probably due to the surprising amount of stretch goals reached and a few technical problems in remaking a 2010 visual novel, Lucy ~The Eternity She Wished For~ took a year…

Destiny’s Princess – A War Story, A Love Story

Destiny’s Princess, or Sengoku Himeka, is an otome game made by Dogenzaka Lab, first released for Android and iOS last year and now ported to PC through Steam a little…

Sickness

Now this is a powerful start, right? Strong, graphic, right to the point, yet casually dismissive. Makes you want to know what the story is behind the corpse right before your…

Tokyo Babel

Among our niche community exists an exalted list of god-tier untranslated visual novels. The list is populated by VNs that have been in demand for years, with all English readers hoping…

Impulse!

OELVN. A term that tends to make your average weeb cringe. It means the game didn’t originate in the beloved motherland of Japan. In terms of putting together decent visual novels,…

Highway Blossoms Preview

We were given a pre-release demo for Alienworks' upcoming yuri-themed VN Highway Blossoms, set in the American Midwest. Our solidbatman shares his thoughts.