The Best Visual-novel Games for Linux - Page 3

Update : Prank! added at rank #42.
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Blackberry Honey (2017)

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Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Linux PC Windows Playstation 5

A lesbian love story set in Victorian England, featuring maids, music, and finding love in unexpected places.

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  • visual-novel
  • lgbtq
  • romance
  • anime

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Eliza (2019)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.


  • visual-novel
  • emotional
  • psychological
  • beautiful
  • dystopian
  • atmospheric

23

a new life. (2020)

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Android IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows

When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.

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  • visual-novel
  • lgbtq
  • emotional
  • romance
  • multiple-endings

24

Athanasy (2022)

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Linux Mac OS Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile Nintendo Switch Android PC Windows

Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.

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  • narration
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • dynamic
  • sci-fi
  • lore
  • text
  • lovecraftian
  • cyberpunk
  • conversation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • choices
  • multiple-endings

25

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi (2020)

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Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.


  • visual-novel
  • horror
  • psychological
  • anime
  • mystery
  • story

26

Universe For Sale (2023)

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Linux IOS iPhone Android Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

A space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. A bizarre bazaar where a young, worried woman crafts entire universes in the palm of her hand. A mysterious cultist who's stripped the flesh from his bones in order to reach enlightenment. Here, there's a universe for sale. You buying?


  • hand-drawn
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • crafting
  • travel
  • atmospheric
  • comic
  • sci-fi
  • time
  • conversation
  • book
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • cute
  • adventure

27

Pesterquest (2019)

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Android PC Windows Mac OS Linux Playstation 4 m Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch

Embark on a quest of epic importance in Pesterquest, a grimsical episodic visual novel adventure set in the darkly funny Homestuck / Hiveswap universe. Find all the answers you're looking for as you zap between Earth and Alternia making friends as you go.


  • visual-novel
  • travel
  • lgbtq
  • time
  • funny
  • rpg
  • comedy
  • story
  • adventure
  • sci-fi

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A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986 (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

A Summer's End is a visual novel set in 1980s Hong Kong. It tells of a love story between two women. Lush and vibrant visuals, the game features over 400 unique hand-drawn artwork inspired by Asian cinema and 1980s anime.

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  • visual-novel
  • lgbtq
  • romance
  • must-read
  • 1980s
  • casual

29

Impostor Factory (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.


  • emotional
  • story
  • rpgmaker
  • pixel
  • visual-novel
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • horror
  • comedy
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • roleplaying
  • must-play
  • dark
  • rpg

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Guilty Parade (2021)

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One war. Two sides of a military conflict. Which side will you choose if you take a look at the world from both sides of the conflict? Whom will you support and whom will you destroy if some are fighting for an uncertain future, while others are for a peaceful present?

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  • visual-novel
  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • anime
  • war
  • wartime
  • mystery
  • story
  • stylized
  • atmospheric
  • hand-drawn
  • violent
  • comedy

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