Recently, Visual Novels have begun to gain traction on one of the biggest game portals around these days; Steam. With the release of Steam's Greenlight, Visual Novels have finally been given a chance to get on the platform and gain more exposure for this niche game genre. Me and a friend of mine have discussed a possible Co-Op piece on a particular great, and surprisingly well unknown, recent feature of Steam that I feel that combined with the recent VN releases, and future ones, on Steam will really help spread and expand this genre further. In preparation for the piece, I have done some research and compiled a list, with links, of Visual Novels that are currently on Steam, Greenlit, and currently up for vote on Greenlight. This list is sorted by developer name alphabetically. Please note that a vast majority of VN titles on/trying to get on Steam are Indie titles at the moment, and so quality varies. This list will be updated monthly unless no new VNs show up on Steam during that time.
1/16/14 - Added 3 new VNs recently submitted to Greenlight.
1/18/14 - Loren The Amazon Princess now on sale!
1/21/14 - World End Economica Ep. 1 has been greenlit!
1/25/14 - Cinders added to Greenlight.
1/27/14 - Dandelion added to Greenlight and Princess Battles removed from Greenlight.
2/5/14 - Sunrider greenlit and Fading Hearts now on sale.
2/19/14 Cinders greenlit and Koenchu added to greenlight
3/15/14: Backstage Pass & HuniePop Greenlit, Roommates & Swords of Edo added to Greenlight.
Anigu Studios
Avan Story (Greenlit, but people suspect the dev has gone poof)
Black Chicken Studios
Buko Studios
Capcom
Cherry Tree High Comedy Club (On Sale)Cheritz
Dandelion ~Wishes Brought to You~
Christine Love
Analogue: A Hate Story (On Sale)
Hate Plus (On Sale)
Counter Arts
Fading Hearts (On Sale)
Dischan
Dysfunctional Systems Episode 1 (On Sale)
Fastermind Games
Hanako Games
Long Live The Queen (On Sale)
Magical Diary (On Sale)
Science Girls (Greenlit)
Invert Mouse
Love in Space
Sunrider (Greenlit)
Mangagamer
Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ (OVERDRIVE, Greenlit, ON SALE 2/21)
Hirugashi When They Cry ( 07th Expansion, Greenlit)Moacube
Cinders (Greenlit)
Sake Visual
Backstage Pass (Greenlit)
Sekai Project
Narcissu 1st & 2nd (Greenlit)
World End Economica Ep. 1 (Spicy Tails, Greenlit)
Koenchu -Tales of A Voice Actress- (Zero Zigen)
Seirie
HuniePop (Greenlit)
Transcendent Games
West Dragon Productions
White Cat
Winter Wolves
Bionic Heart 2
Loren The Amazon Princess (On Sale)
You're missing Analogue and Hate Plus, already on sale, and *maybe* Cherry Tree High Comedy Club (also already on sale). Which, while it isn't quite a VN, is closer to one than Science Girls is. Science Girls is much more a retro RPG.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I totally spaced those out! It's a bit hard to figure out sometimes since to me theres kind of a fine line between JRPG style games and Visual Novels with RPG gameplay. I left out Planet Stronghold from WW cause while it had VN aspects I felt it more a sci-fi RPG.
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