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The best visual novel games

Visual novels are adventure video games with a very limited interactivity. Most visual novels are interactive stories, with the player reduced to a passive reader clicking to go on with the story. The vast majority of visual novels graphics is 2D and anime-styled.
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Angel 3

DOS1990NSFW JAST USA
Angel 3 is that kind of DOS game where you sit down thinking "I'll give it five minutes" and three hours later you're still trying to figure out what just happened. Released in 1990, it's part shooter, part surrealist fever dream,...
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Three Sisters' Story

DOS1999NSFW JAST USA
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Murder Club

DOSWindows XP/98/951991 Riverhill Soft
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True Love

Windows XP/98/951995NSFW Software House Parsley
True Love is abandoned visual novel and dating simulation developed by Software House Parsley and released by JAST USA in 1995 for Windows. True Love is one of the many erotic anime-style visual novels released in the 1990s.
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Runaway City

DOS1995NSFW JAST USA
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Season of the Sakura

DOS1997NSFW JAST USA
Season of the Sakura is an abandoned visual novel game developed by JAST USA and released by in 1997 for DOS. Season of the Sakura is one of the many Japanese visual novels published in the 90s with a eroge theme.
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Sexy Fighter

DOS1993NSFW Kingformation
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Fatal Relations

Windows XP/98/951998NSFW
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Crescent

DOS1993NSFW Silky's
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Fairy Nights

Windows XP/98/952000NSFW Milky House
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Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
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Profezia

DOS1991NSFW Trecision
Profezia is an adventure video game developed by the Italian company Trecision and released in 1991. It was available on both the Amiga and MS-DOS platforms. The game is notable for its multiple-choice interface, where the storyli...
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20000 Leagues under the sea

DOS1988 Coktel Vision
Based loosely on Jules Verne’s famous tale, this game lets you live your steampunk submarine dreams with all the elegance of a DOS interface. You command the Nautilus, explore the ocean depths, and encounter strange sea crea...
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Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
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Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS1989 Tom Snyder Productions
More illustrations, more intrigue, more doom. The Crystal of Doom continues the hybrid of comic-style storytelling and light role-playing with just enough choices to make you feel clever (or guilty). This time, you’re chasin...
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Teresa: House Guest

DOS1993NSFW Interactive Girls Club
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Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
Interactive fiction meets comic book in this spin-off, where you follow a fantasy story through illustrated panels and scripted choices. Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle feels like your dungeon master turned into a storyboard ...
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Passengers on the Wind

DOS1986 Infogrames
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Passengers on the Wind 2

DOS1987 Infogrames
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