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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cross Channel, stylized as CROSS†CHANNEL, is a visual novel video game developed by Flying Shine. It was originally released in 2003 for Microsoft Windows...

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...

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...

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...

9-Nine is a Japanese adult visual novel series developed and published by Palette. It was released for Windows in four episodes from April 2017 to April...

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

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...

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....

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

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...

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...

codes, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the 2004 visual novel Fate/stay night, published by Type-Moon. Shirou is a teenager who accidentally...

KineticNovel (キネティックノベル, Kinetikku Noberu) is a brand of the Japanese software publishing company Visual Arts. The productions of the KineticNovel label...

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...

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...

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...