Visual Novel Recommendations
Katawa-Shoujo [Free]
Platform(s) Windows, Mac OS X,Linux
Release date: January 4, 2012
The gameplay of Katawa Shoujo is choice-based, with the player reading through text and occasionally making decisions that initiate the possible events or dialogue within the story. Depending on the choices made by the player, the story branches into multiple forks variously chronicling Hisao's deepening and eventually romantic relationship with one of the five main female characters (or lack thereof), some of which may variously end well, badly, or neutrally.
Princess Evangile
Platform(s) Windows
Release date: May 27, 2015
This romance visual novel explores the question of gender integration at a private school. A curious series of events leads to our hero becoming the only boy at a prestigious girls' academy... But over 99% of the girls are against integration!
The game spans a full year, divided into 26 "anime-like" chapters. Colorful movies and SD illustrations bring the classic girls' school events to life!
Fruits of Grisaia
Platform(s) Windows
Release date: Feb 25, 2011
Mihama Academy is a prison-like school built to preserve "fruit" that has fallen too far from its tree. It is home to five female students who each have their own reasons for enrolling in the academy and live their life idly within the walls of Mihama. One day, Kazami Yuuji the institute's first male student arrives and throws the orderly rhythm of Mihama off balance. Is Yuuji what the girls need to grab hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome? Or, is his past even heavier than any of the others?
Sunrider Academy
Platform(s) Windows & Mac OS
Release date: April 15, 2015
You are Kayto Shields, an ordinary man thrown into an extraordinary adventure.
Control Kayto's day to day life as well as his responsibilities as club manager in
this stat management sim.
Clannad
Platform(s) Windows & Mac OS
Release date: November 23, 2015
From the world renowned visual novel studio Key, the highly rated story of CLANNAD is now available on Steam! Improved visuals, achievement integration, and Dangopedia make this the best version of CLANNAD to date.
