The Best Visual-novel Games for Nintendo 3DS

Update : Doppelganger added at rank #5.
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (2021)

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Nintendo 3DS Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is a prequel to the popular Ace Attorney series that takes players through case after case packed with wonderful characters, stories and clever brain teasers. Engage in multi-pronged conversations with numerous different characters and explore lavishly detailed environments for clues. Solve puzzles as you take on the role of a lawyer trying to prove your client's innocence in court.

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What we like:
  • Richly detailed art direction
  • Period-accurate references
  • Entertaining writing
  • Clever animations and character designs
  • Multiple witnesses take the stand simultaneously
  • Extra content such as DLC costumes and developer commentary
What could be improved:
  • Clues can be hard to connect during trials

  • visual-novel
  • crime
  • detective
  • drama
  • historical
  • mystery
  • narrative
  • adventure
  • western
  • crossover

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Corpse Party: Sweet Sachikos Hysteric Birthday Bash (2019)

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90
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Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko’s Hysteric Birthday Bash is a different type of adventure in the Corpse Party series that stars the violent and murderous Sachiko Shinozaki, who has decided to invite her victims to Heavenly Host Elementary School to celebrate her birthday. However, this isn’t the type of party where the guests leave with a smile on their faces. Instead, Sachiko plans to force the students to participate in twisted games for her amusement. Will the students survive Sachiko’s celebration, or will they meet a Wrong End once again?


  • visual-novel
  • gore
  • horror
  • violent
  • romantic
  • comedy
  • hammer-wielding
  • anime
  • harem

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The House in Fata Morgana (2012)

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PC Windows Nintendo 3DS Playstation 4 vita

A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.


  • visual-novel
  • gothic
  • puzzle
  • horror
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • 3d
  • story

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Detective Story (2021)

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65
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Detective Story - is a simple quest game, with hardoce elements, where you play as a detective Harold. You look for clues, interview witnesses and collect everything to clear a crime.


  • detective
  • visual-novel
  • crime
  • horror
  • noir
  • mystery
  • sketch
  • mmo

5

Doppelganger (2023)

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The story is set in an alternate universe where the player is struggling with the memories of what they know to be HOLOSTARS English -TEMPUS- and the mysterious look-alikes who pull them every which way. Can the player figure out the truth about this twisted world and return to the guild?


  • choices
  • visual-novel
  • adventure
  • 2d
  • story

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Zero Escape (2016)

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Nintendo 3DS PC Windows vita Playstation 4

Zero Time Dilemma is the third and final entry in the acclaimed Zero Escape series. It is a story focused mystery/thriller visual novel with multiple endings that involves player choices and puzzle rooms. It is recommended that you play the games in order. The mysterious “Zero” traps 9 participants within an underground shelter, dividing them equally between 3 wards that are connected to an elevator shaft in the middle. The only way out – passing through a locked X-Door to access the elevator. Six passwords are required to unlock the door, and each password is revealed only after a participant dies. Zero’s “Decision Game” will offer teams the opportunity to kill other participants through a variety of means to obtain the necessary passwords so they may escape.


  • visual-novel
  • psychological
  • horror
  • story
  • choices
  • puzzle
  • mystery
  • anime
  • narrative

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