True. But this is a game forum, and kinetic visual novels and games... two slightly different things. This is just a non-interactive story with breakpoints designed to prove that you have a brain. :-D
Excuse me ? ''a story with breakpoints designed to prove you have a brain'' ? So, idk if you've ever head of them, but there's a real life invention, quire respectable ones at that, which can snuggly fit into your description, they're called ''books''. Secondly, this is NOT exclusively a games forum, idk where you read that from and I frankly don't care because it is laughably false. This site has people posting and exclusive categories for Mangas, CGs ripped from games, PinUps, Comics, Animations, Videos, GIFs etc. Thus, even if Visual Novels don't fit into your personal description of what constitutes a ''game'', you have zero arguments to make as to why they should not be here on f95.
And regarding VisualNovels, most of them feature choices and branching routes, ergo they can be properly regarded as games since they include interaction from the player, matter of fact, if we're being very technical, even kinetic visual novels which don't feature choices require player interaction, which is clicking ( unless you go full auto mode that is ), so even if kinetic Vns aren't ''games'', their genre Visual Novels, are games.
Anyways, point is that Visual Novels absolutely belong here, end of story.