The Best Novel Games

Update : DanMachi Battle Chronicle added at rank #12.
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Florence (2018)

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Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.


  • graphic
  • novel
  • narrative
  • interactive
  • puzzle
  • romance
  • story
  • cute
  • romantic
  • visual-novel
  • endless
  • multi-piece
  • drama
  • music
  • short

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Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth- (2021)

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Play as Deedlit in Record of Lodoss War ~Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth~, a thrilling 2D action-exploration game. Using your sword and bow, fight against enemies and level up your elemental spirits to gain new abilities. With beautiful graphics and an engaging story by the original creator, both longtime fans and new players will enjoy this Metroidvania-style adventure.


What we like:
  • Fantastic gameplay and puzzles
  • Beautiful 2D sprites with great animations
  • Good music
  • Backtracking is not a chore
  • Smooth and responsive controls with continuous influx of new weapons and spells
What could be improved:
  • Extremely short gameplay for completionists
  • Grating music at times
  • Potentially difficult fights

  • anime
  • boss
  • action-exploration
  • "
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • novel
  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • boss-fight
  • fantasy
  • rpg
  • beat-em-up
  • platform
  • ikaruga

3

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home (2023)

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1917, as World War I rages on, two brothers will fight to survive the trenches and find each other again. Their paths will cross with new Valiant Hearts who will share the joy of reuniting and the horror of the Western Front – all desperate to find their way home.

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  • graphic
  • novel
  • puzzle
  • naval
  • historical
  • war
  • interactive
  • adventure
  • battle
  • puzzling-solving
  • exploration
  • violin
  • scene
  • -only
  • cover

4

The Blind Prophet (2020)

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Lead the apostle Bartholomeus through a comic book-style experience. The Blind Prophet offers a mature look at the Point 'n' Click genre. The gameplay and experience builds its foundation on a strong storyline, a sense of fluidity and a darkly pleasing ambience.


  • graphic
  • novel
  • watson
  • adventure
  • battle-hardened
  • inventory
  • casual
  • comic
  • rpg
  • puzzle
  • music
  • classic
  • point-and-click
  • story
  • reflexes

5

Wide Ocean Big Jacket (2020)

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A Camping Story starring: Uncle Brad, Aunt Cloanne, Mord (and Ben)


  • interactive
  • narrative
  • turn-based
  • novel
  • story
  • urn
  • good-natured
  • vignette
  • walking-simulator
  • puzzle
  • casual
  • park
  • visual-novel
  • dialogue
  • exploration

6

Guns of Infinity (2016)

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Step into the role of a commander of a squadron of cavalry in Guns of Infinity. This 440,000 word interactive novel allows you to make choices that control the story. Will you befriend, betray, or romance the nobles, rogues, and spies? Will you fight for power, riches, love, or glory? Strategize to fight the Antari forces and support your family financially in this epic world. Combat, intrigue, and romance await in Guns of Infinity!


What we like:
  • Well-written and intricately designed CYOA game with several interesting paths and endings
  • Great character developments and story arcs
  • Game accounts for a whole lot of different choices, providing material for RP-ing your character through multiple playthroughs
  • Complex characters and decisions in moral grey-areas
What could be improved:
  • Romantic relationships are vague and unclear
  • Some choices seem confusing and less meaningful than the first game
  • Lack of decisions regarding your command may disappoint some players
  • Too much exposition by the end of some playthroughs

  • text
  • novel
  • romance
  • choices
  • interactive
  • adventure
  • century
  • rpg
  • low-fantasy
  • war
  • war-time
  • fiction
  • book

7

Midnight Saga: The Monster (2022)

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When a quiet Halloween night turns into a thrilling adventure, make sure to grab a weapon, eat candy, wreck monsters or leave them for dead!


  • text
  • novel
  • interactive
  • horror
  • survival
  • fantasy

8

MazM: The Phantom of the Opera (2021)

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A thrilling love story unfolds in a majestic Parisian opera house.


  • visual-novel
  • novel
  • thriller
  • romantic
  • immersive
  • point-and-click
  • romance
  • movie
  • gothic
  • classic
  • rpg
  • story
  • simulation
  • historical
  • book

9

Insert Rich Family Name (2023)

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As one of the surviving members of a wealthy family, navigate a treacherous web of lies, deceit, and suspicion to identify the killer and claim your inheritance. But with a killer on the loose, you must be careful not to become the next victim.

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  • novel
  • romance
  • detective
  • interactive
  • mystery
  • cute

10

Painting Werther (2023)

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Painting Werther is an Paintable Visual Novel where all the visuals are living paintings, all the music are classics (with a twist) and the novel was written by Goethe in 1774.

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  • instrumental
  • philosophical
  • cinematic
  • novel
  • romance
  • emotional
  • visual-novel
  • linear
  • hidden-object
  • hand-drawn
  • point-and-click
  • narration
  • music
  • historical
  • drama

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