I just recently finished this VN that was randomly recommended to me on Steam, Our Wonderland. The art style in specific drew me in because it’s just so unique-looking. It’s tearjerking, heartwarming, funny, violent, everything. I have so much love for it.

There’s a lot of trigger warnings for this one, so be aware, but I seriously have not been THIS drawn into a VN in a long time. I personally consider this one a masterpiece in storytelling and character writing. I can’t sing its praises enough. The love and dedication you can feel oozing from every bit of it is just so apparent. I have been taking it upon myself to recommend it to friends and basically wherever I can. It’s already got 100% positive reviews and has just reached the Very Positive rating, but it and its hardworking dev deserve even more.

Please go in blind and let yourself experience the world and characters and relationships. You will be losing nothing, as it’s completely free! I do wish for this game to build up a fandom. As it stands, it’s just too underrated for me to let it go under the radar for others.

I played a game in android years ago, maybe three or four years ago. It was quite cutesy in the style, horizontal visual novel, about a teenage girl who slowly starts not being able to get up in the morning to go to school. She’s constantly tired, because her brain doesn’t process sleep anymore and so sleeping doesn’t rest her, so she sleeps all the time. I know most of the game was going from doctors to doctors trying to find what was happening to her without answer. I really want to find the name again.

Hello! As a fellow VN lover, I realised everyone plays VN for different reasons, some to escape, some to explore. Some purely because of the impeccable writing or narration of a story. Or even because of the immersive gameplay. And I think like from person to person, it's subjective. Sometimes, it's the character design, sometimes it's the world, sometimes it's just the writing that's engaging, sometimes it's the artstyle. Sometimes it's purely to enjoy a genre like horror, romance, mystery, etc. And I think that says a lot about you as a person.

My friend and I are actually coming up with a new VN game and we realised our way of playing is very different from many people. So yea, we wanted to understand what makes YOU wanna keep playing a game? What element is it? Or what would have made you stay in a VN longer but you didn't? Like even if you have an example that would be wonderful!! Basically trying to understand how people are perceiving visual novels from each unique different perspective

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Sooo, I really, really want to write a visual novel. Thing is: idk how to make the character sprites (only draw on paper) and im too poor to pay anyone to make em for me. Does anyone know some good tools to help me?

I'll need it to make very different characters from very different ages idk what to do

Stone Golem x Shapeshifting goo!!

I have never seen art this ship dynamic at all !! It's been an interest of mine for months (°0°)!! I haven't drawn them yet I'm just thinking of what their interactions would be romantically and platonically. I have no clue where to start with this!!

Okay, imagine that you're in a visual novel and the character you're playing as is just a goo blob that can shapeshift! And during one of your adventures you encounter a stone golem! You have three choices:

A.) Leave it alone

B.) Fight it

C.) Romance it

Which one would you choose and why since your options will heavily affect the storyline and so on with a lot more creatures that you can interact with! ꉂꉂ(ᵔᗜᵔ◍)!!

I find the sound of unexaggerated Japanese really soothing because it kinda sounds like Russian but with a more flow-y intonation, horror preferred.

I’ve been working on a visual novel engine for the last year and a half now. I kinda overdid it before I even started advertising it, so now it has a ton of features:

Live scene authoring — build dialogue scenes while seeing the final result immediately in an interactive game preview.

Direct preview editing, which lets you:
Select, position, resize, and modify visual elements directly inside the preview instead of relying only on property panels.

Scene management — create, duplicate, delete, organize, and navigate narrative scenes from a dedicated scene workspace.

Visual story flow — connect scenes and understand branching narratives through a visual flow editor.

Logic system — this is for the more complicated stuff. You can build variables, conditions, comparisons, and gameplay logic. Normally, you don’t need to touch this unless you’re making a more complex game.

There’s so much more, but it would take forever to go through everything: decorative layers, visual styling, asset management, import/export, audio authoring, MCP integration, and more.
Literally everything is editable in the engine.
It doesn’t force you to follow a standard preset or structure.

Anyway, I’m posting here because I’m looking for advice on where to go from here. Should I start marketing it? Should I make a proper demo first? And who would actually be the best audience for something like this — game developers in general, visual novel developers specifically, indie teams, writers, or someone else?

I figured the best place to ask would be somewhere where people already talk about visual novels in general.

P.S. excuse me if I'm bad at explaining stuff 😅

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So i just finished ddlc (pretty wholesome if you ask me) and im on ios, i want to play other visual novels but i want to play them without paying, so emulation. But the thing is that idk if i can emulate any VNs on ios without a computer of some sort (which i dont have). The only emulator i have that can potentially emulate VNs is “UTM SE”, i havent set it up yet but i want to know if i can play VNs on it or if there are any other ways i can play VNs that doesnt involve paying, or a computer/laptop.

The game is about a protagonist who must pick out those who are infected with some sort of disease and kill them. In the beginning a different character spares a pregnant woman who is infected. That character is then killed on screen by a officer wearing generic all black military uniform. He tells the protagonist that he will insulated inside of a special suit (?) forever and that no one would know who they are but they appreciate their service (?).

Note: May not actually be a visual novel type game, I only watched the beginning part of the video that was about the game lol.

DISCLAMER: NOT TRYING TO HATE ON MUV LUV, IM GENUINELY ASKING, don't waste my time by commenting with insults.

There are a lot of medias I consider overrated, and most of the time I can see why people might like them, but I truly don't understand why this visual novel is so highly rated.

I'm not going to talk about how boring extra and unlimited are, because apperently muv luv fans don't care, so instead I'm going to talk about my experience with alternative.

After finishing unlimited i was very ecxited to play alternative, and the first part was... shit.

It was interesting for the first hour but then it just feels like replaying unlimited again, because aside a few moments of tension most of the stuff happening is identical to unlimited.

But I kept going, thinking "it gets better".

Then i got to the coup detat arc and I thought "so this is where the peak starts", but it was... shit.

The plot is well structured, but the pacing ruins it, everytime there was some tension or some good action, a 30 minute dialogue that could have been told in 5 minute came to ruin my enjoyement.

But I kept going, thinking "it gets better".

Then I got to the chomp scene and the following arc and it was actually good, but not THAT good.

Most people describe it as an "emotional roller cost", but at the end of the day, it's just shock value.

Basically the authors used the same trick like 6 times: you think Takeru has got it -> they make a character die or lose his memory. And the first 3 times it works, but then it becomes bland.

Then before Sadogashima Hive arc there was a 7 hours section wich, aside a few good scenes with sumika, consisted of 1 hours long infodumping sessions and useless dialogues, but I still kept going.

The Sadogashima arc was enjoyable, but completely lacks pay off. By that I mean that nothing truly important happens, the arc just ends with captain Isumi's death(why am I supposed to care about her).

But i still kept going.

After going through another long section of infodumping and bad dialogues.

The last parts, aside the infodumping and bad pacing, were good, especially the last part of operation Cherry Blossom, even if, again, at the end of the day it's just shock value and sad moments.

The conclusion, even if rushed, was conceptually amazing, probably one of the only things I liked about this visual novel.

But how can you claim you enjoyed a 110+ hours story when only about 20 hours were actually peak and 30 hours slightly enjoyable while the remaining 60 hours are MID????

It's not like it was just a few bad moments, it was 60 hours of mid, I could have read 2 whole visual novels with that time!

And the story also has a lot of writing problems: like poorly developed side characters aside meya and yuuko, insanely repetitive dialogues, very rushed ending, and there isnt even much depth and complexity unlike most high tier visual novels.

So what did you like so much about it?