The Best Visual-novel Games for Linux - Page 5

Update : Prank! added at rank #42.
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Sable's Grimoire (2018)

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Sable's Grimoire is a visual novel featuring monster girls in a magic academy setting. Play as Sable, an aspiring magic researcher, as he get sucked into the daily lives and troubles of his demi-human classmates.

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  • visual-novel
  • casual
  • simulation
  • violent
  • comedy
  • romance
  • anime
  • mature

42

Prank! (2025)

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Linux PC Windows IOS iPhone

A girl wakes up in the grass, only to find she has lost her memory and grown wings. Playtime: ~30 minutes + endless mode

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  • rpg
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • multiple-endings
  • bullet-hell
  • walking-simulator
  • horror
  • fiction
  • adventure
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • interactive
  • action-adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • platform

43

Heart Fragment (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

In Heart Fragment, you play as Xani, a character struggling to cope with their past, a friend's disappearance and their own identity crisis. As you make choices throughout the game, you shape Xani's personality and influence the outcome of the story. With over 40 different endings, including romantic, platonic and family-based paths, Heart Fragment is an adventure full of mystery and unexpected twists. Gorgeous artwork, a beautiful soundtrack and a cast of diverse characters make for an immersive and unforgettable gaming experience.

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What we like:
  • More engaging story than a book with dozens of choices and stats management
  • Plenty of save features
  • Features a social media app and the ability to look into people's hearts for certain objectives
  • Attractive UI and beautiful CGs
  • Easy recommendation with lively characters, solid partial voice acting, and intriguing mystery
What could be improved:
  • Slow pacing and meandering plot with lengthy infodumps and low action scenes
  • Self-centered internal monologue of main character makes it hard to connect
  • Repetitive expressions of opinions by some characters
  • Lack of chemistry between main character and love interests
  • Odd lack of tension with main antagonist not appearing often or making a strong effort to kill main character

  • simulation
  • visual-novel
  • rpg
  • otome
  • dating-sim
  • romance
  • psychological
  • choices

44

Without A Voice (2020)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

In the depths of a forest, an exiled princess whiles her time in solitude. One day, a mysterious, beautiful maiden appears, throwing her world out of its alignment. A dark fantasy visual novel following the intertwining paths of these two women. In seven days, the wheel of fate will splinter...

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  • visual-novel
  • lgbtq
  • gore
  • casual
  • anime
  • rpg
  • horror
  • multiple-endings

45

Royal Alchemist (2020)

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Join a high fantasy royal court setting as you take on the role of a tutor and help your students survive in this visual novel game with RPG elements.

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What we like:
  • Intrigue
  • Betrayal
  • Survival simulation
  • RPG elements
What could be improved:
  • Single player mode only
  • Locked characters

  • otome
  • visual-novel
  • lgbtq
  • dating-sim
  • anime
  • romance
  • magic
  • choices
  • crowdfunded
  • multiple-endings
  • simulation
  • rpg
  • strategy

46

The Language Of Love (2019)

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Mitsuki, an aimless young man studying to take his university entrance exams, falls for a young single mother who lives in his apartment complex. A relationship develops between these mismatched social outcasts, and then...

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  • romance
  • visual-novel
  • simulation
  • anime
  • education

47

Red Embrace (2018)

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A normal graveyard shift at a dingy diner in San Francisco... until a mysterious customer arrives, bringing with him a war between vampires.

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  • romance
  • visual-novel
  • lgbtq
  • casual
  • violent
  • dating-sim
  • vampire
  • war

48

How Stories Die (2020)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Time travel, assassins and one magical gangster rabbit! The demon king threatens your kingdom and it's up to you, the prince, to find a suitable hero to fight it. Not an easy task, as it will require you to shed a lot of blood and maybe even die. But at least you will save everyone... right?

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  • visual-novel
  • medieval
  • anime
  • multiple-endings
  • romance
  • gore
  • magic
  • blood
  • violent
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • story
  • comedic
  • colourful

49

Fei (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows ps1

The dark despair city, the fugitive drug addict, intriguing and strange urban legend. What’s the story between two characters from different detective games? It’s coming soon.


  • rpg
  • church
  • visual-novel
  • turn-based
  • non-combat
  • anime
  • sci-fi
  • thought-provoking
  • submarine
  • martial
  • orchestral
  • mech
  • narration
  • cult

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Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk (2021)

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A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.

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  • psychological
  • visual-novel
  • horror
  • psychedelic
  • multiple-endings
  • abstract
  • pixel
  • story
  • text

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