I think a visual novel is more my jam, but I'd be open for straight up dating sims if that's where the good stuff is. I don't have a ton of experience with visual novels, but I have zero with the stats type. I only have limited experience with these titles, didn't finish them, but they are highly regarded and easily available on Steam or other official channels.
And again Sakura Wars: Otherwise try Umineko, it's not a dating sim but still a really good VN. Katawa Shoujo is damn good nevermind all the 4Chan thing , I only did the Hanako route and there's some deep stuff there. A Hate Story is very good and I'm also a sucker for Steins;Gate though you don't date too much in that one, it's just a really good story with nice art. Thanks for all the tips, I've added what I could to my list on Steam and started looking for the rest in other places. Some of them are a bit much to buy sight unseen I think, but I bet it's not that long until another sale anyway.
Yep, already been there. Thought it was pretty good, though not as good as tsukihime. In a writing sense I mean, they sure blew up after that first one, and the production quality was so much higher. I appreciate that Umineko is good I really liked the anime adaptation of Higurashi, though I've heard Umineko's anime is pretty bad , so I'll keep it in mind but it's not what I'm looking for right now. Are these actually what I'm looking for or are they subversive, short indie stuff that wear the guise of dating visual novels but are more about taking the piss?
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I think the chat interface thing in two of them look real unappealing, at least. Love is Strange kinda makes me laugh, I did play and like Life is Strange alright, but it's pretty funny that someone wrote a fanfic VN about just the girls going to the school, including the murder victim it seems. I think that's a maybe, so far. Steins;Gate might be cool, I loved the anime adaptation of that too. I suppose it's entirely the same plot but with alternate routes for all the girls Okabe has to help out after he messes up the timeline?
This guide is pretty good at getting you to all of the endings with the least amount of repetition and without spoiling stuff along the way. Thanks, I'll probably give it a try. Undertale let's you date a skeleton man. When I think about it, I haven't actually played that many dating sims, besides Katawa Shoujo , which I liked, but it sounds like you weren't digging. I've been meaning to play Clannad for years.
I don't know how much of a dating sim it is beyond I'm guessing selecting which route you want to go down, but it is highly regarded. Besides that, I bought My Girlfriend is the President because of how ridiculous that trailer was, but only played it for an hour. If that's not a recommendation, I don't know what is. Undead skeleton monster men aren't women, but besides that, I already played it. Clannad is a possibility!
That's another one I liked the anime for, After Story more than the first season. Implying there are good dating sims. Katawa Shoujo is really good. I had a good time with it anyway. Lilly all the way.
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If you liked Clannad, you'd probably like other Key stuff too. I like Little Busters a good bit. Likeable characters and there's good incentive to do several routes. Though I suppose watching and reading their stories might not be entirely comparable.
I know that I've felt a lot of Visual Novels are kind of poorly paced and drag. Just to piggyback on this, Ladykiller in a Bind is also very good. It is a bit porny, but OP seems ok with that. A lot of the stuff Air does is pretty great including Clannad, Kanon, Air, little busters and angel beats.
If you can handle some comedic and also not very comedic rape and lots of sex in general the rance series are held in very high regard. Yume Miru Kusuri - is interesting and deals mainly with girls with mental issues, ie depression, drugs abuse etc. There are tons more but the above are what come to mind immediately, you should also visit https: Thanks, that's a lot of stuff! I'll jot down what seems interesting and easy to get hold of.
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Clannad and Steins;Gate are a given since I'm already familiar with their stories and like them, and I might extend that to Key's older stuff too. Grisaia and Muv-Luv are also on my list, and I've heard enough about Rance over the years that I should proooobably give it a go. Ladykiller in a bind is I dunno, maybe it's great, but it's got one of the the least appealing artstyles I know of.
Just judging from the titles of her games and what I assume is her pen name, Christine Love's writing also seems totally like not my thing in any way. I'm gonna check out Majikoi for sure at the very least, but some of these are just gonna have to wait until they go on sale. Some are like a decade old and still 30 bucks.
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Actually most of them are old, looks like even the fastest ones to make it over took years. Yeah, visual novels have only just become popular in the West over the last few years, I would say that the genre's popularity really started to grow in with the release of Katawa Shoujo. However, there have been some recent examples of VNs being translated very soon after they were released in Japan, such as Steins;Gate 0 coming out in the West less than a year after Japan and the recent Grisaia: Phantom Trigger being published in English territories simultaneously with Japan.
I mostly play VN that have story and rpg elements to it. It keeps me entertained and focused on other objectives. You should check Mangagamer for recent releases, since they have a team oriented to just localizing visual novels.
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In this website you can check for language patches: My suggestions are eroge but some lighter than others. This one is the most different from all of them because its very text based and no RPG elements to it. The game is very VERY hard sometimes and its big on content. I recommenced the https: Is much lighter than the Rance series on eroge content but as great RPG nonetheless. This RPG can be hard sometimes. Yeah, I really liked the Clannad animes, and I have been meaning to play it forever. From my understanding it is also an incredibly long game too.
Some of these just look too old and cumbersome, but I'm considering that Rance game specifically. Maybe I should go for Phantom Trigger just to get a game that's actually from , lol. I don't know how heavily it gets into the dating aspect rather than just being a VN , but FWIW my first 15 hours or so with Chaos;Child have been favourable just released in Europe, out in just over a week in the US.
Writing is strong there's a fair number of typos, but they don't really hinder readability , the characters are interesting, and the premise its setup so far is intriguing. Well newer doesn't always mean better. From what I've heard the consensus by fans is that Phantom Trigger is pretty mediocre.
Plus the game is completely linear so there are no alternate routes for each girl or dialogue choices of any kind, unlike the other Griasia games. Stordoff already beat me to the punch on this but if you want a new VN that has been getting some great buzz recently then Chaos;Child might be up your alley.
It is more of a murder mystery than a dating sim but there are routes for each of the girl in the game. A lot of VN fans have been saying Chaos;Child is one of the best titles they've played in recent years and you don't need to have played other games in the series to enjoy it. Unfortunately, the English localization is censored which takes some of the edge off. Linux and Mac OS X users have often been treated like poor stepchildren, especially when it comes to receiving game ports.
It seems that Windows users have all the fun, while users of competing operating systems are left out in the cold. Fortunately, the tide is changing since the latest wave of dating simulation games also support Linux and OS X. Katawa Shoujo is part of this brave new world, and hopefully a larger audience will dig into this unique visual novel.
The story revolves around high school student Hisao Nakai and the five young women who he encounters. They all have their own disability to deal with, which makes for a thought-provoking experience to say the least. Yuuji Kazami executes black ops operations for a Japanese government agency. He now leads the life of an ordinary high school student after transferring to Mihama Academy.
There are five main plot lines for each girl with multiple endings. The player must choose from several options which will either progress the story further, take it down a different branch, or end it abruptly. Most gamers will probably be looking forward to the CG scenes of Yuuji having sex with the heroines. The good news is that there are many to choose from, but you may have limited time to play all of them, or on a tight budget.
Many dating simulation games on this list are aimed predominantly at the PC market. A few have received ports for consoles and mobile devices though. The gloriously exquisite artwork is striking, and truly pops out on the small screen. HuniePop is one of the most popular dating simulation games ever made by a Western indie game developer.