What is your top 10 VN? Let's share the best in your opinion.

[70Dawnlod]

Here are my top 10 at the moment.

01. No Mercy
02. Summer Scent
03. Sophie: The Girl from the Zone
04. Midnight Paradise
05. The Higher Society Illustrated
06. Freeloading Family
07. Sunshine Love
08. Lancaster Boarding House
09. Desert Stalker
10. Hot Sand of Antarctica

 

[Nadekai]

I've played WAY TOO many to categorize them into TOP 10...
But lemme see.

01. Evenicle (Simply because it was my first proper H-Game [The one with story and allat]), also this was the game that ultimately made me learn Japanese
02. this is unfair, but... All of the Rance Series, I cannot in my right mind put these games separately because they'd take the rest of the leaderboard.
03. Lessons in Love (even though it has been recently falling out of me)
04. Eiyuu Senki series (made me love history)
05. The Last Sovereign - Genuinely made me respect older people, a calmer demeanor, and planning
---------------- From here, the games are in no particular order -------------------------
06. Masters of Raana
07. Ravager - Made me appreciate non-humanoid games, which in turn made me more open-minded and opened me various options in games
08. Headpats & Handholding - My first futa protagonist game, which also was wholesome, making me more open minded towards playing futa protags, and well... not limiting myself only to male protag (I am actually unsure if I played this or Ravager first, but both of these made me less biased towards only playing Male Protagonist games) Insomnimaniac Games
09. My Mysterious Rule - Made me comfortable playing as an ugly bastard and gave me newfound appreciation for the genre
10. SUPERHUMAN - Excellent story and lore, truly captivating. Also made me... wouldn't say appreciate, but tolerate overly-proportiate body parts




Also, probably every single game AliceSoft made would rank really high, especially the ones TADA was in charge of.
I still have not found a game that made me appreciate tentacles and netorare/netorase. Which are honestly the last 2 fetishes with which games I am unable to play.

 

[70Dawnlod]

I've played WAY TOO many to categorize them into TOP 10...
But lemme see.

Wow, it's amazing to start learning japanese because of true desire to understand game, it's impressive. Developers can be proud of hard work they've done. It seems like it really should be something worthwhile. Honestly, none of these names are familiar to me, your list was an absolute revelation. Thank you for explanations and colors of the mood in the description of your experience, it was so interesting and informative for me. I'll definitely try something from this in the near future. For me, the genre of such games is still new, I've tried ~20, but I'm already very impressed by big variability and plot twists with frank narration. Lately, I've been craving mystic and unexpected stories with time, worlds, space and consciousness, after "Sophie", something like "The Intoxicating Flavor." and dramatic jaw-dropping changes, like in "Summer Scent". When I was just starting to get acquainted with VN, I really had no idea that there could be something from the adult world, not only in terms of sexual content, so I wanted to find out what impressed others and leaving its indelible mark in terms of understanding the world of games in general.

 

[Nadekai]

Wow, it's amazing to start learning japanese because of true desire to understand game, it's impressive. Developers can be proud of hard work they've done. It seems like it really should be something worthwhile. Honestly, none of these names are familiar to me, your list was an absolute revelation. Thank you for explanations and colors of the mood in the description of your experience, it was so interesting and informative for me. I'll definitely try something from this in the near future. For me, the genre of such games is still new, I've tried ~20, but I'm already very impressed by big variability and plot twists with frank narration. Lately, I've been craving mystic and unexpected stories with time, worlds, space and consciousness, after "Sophie", something like "The Intoxicating Flavor." and dramatic jaw-dropping changes, like in "Summer Scent". When I was just starting to get acquainted with VN, I really had no idea that there could be something from the adult world, not only in terms of sexual content, so I wanted to find out what impressed others and leaving its indelible mark in terms of understanding the world of games in general.

This is probably stupid, but...
Evenicle series was there when I was going through hard times in my life, and I always replay it when something big happens in my life as a tribute to it.
So I made myself a promise that I'd one day play it in the original script.

 

[Nadekai]

Wow, it's amazing to start learning japanese because of true desire to understand game, it's impressive. Developers can be proud of hard work they've done. It seems like it really should be something worthwhile. Honestly, none of these names are familiar to me, your list was an absolute revelation. Thank you for explanations and colors of the mood in the description of your experience, it was so interesting and informative for me. I'll definitely try something from this in the near future. For me, the genre of such games is still new, I've tried ~20, but I'm already very impressed by big variability and plot twists with frank narration. Lately, I've been craving mystic and unexpected stories with time, worlds, space and consciousness, after "Sophie", something like "The Intoxicating Flavor." and dramatic jaw-dropping changes, like in "Summer Scent". When I was just starting to get acquainted with VN, I really had no idea that there could be something from the adult world, not only in terms of sexual content, so I wanted to find out what impressed others and leaving its indelible mark in terms of understanding the world of games in general.

What kind of games are you searching for?
Moege? Eroge? Nukige?
Story-driven? Visual Novel? Sandbox? RPG? Open World?
Male Dom? MaleTag? Coprophagia?

 

[70Dawnlod]

This is probably stupid, but...

I think your example just shows that good games matter as much as art, and it's not a small thing. It's inspiring and joyful.

 

[70Dawnlod]

What kind of games are you searching for?

Oh, I don't even know half of these words, haha, but thinks - the plot, variation, frankness. The feeling that everything is not what it seemed before. And of course, the level of study, as in "No Mercy", this game has raised my standards.

 

[Nadekai]

Oh, I don't even know half of these words, haha, but thinks - the plot, variation, frankness. The feeling that everything is not what it seemed before.

Hmm...

Moege - Non Drama Love story
Eroge - H-game
Nukige - Sex Game (vs H-Game is purely focused on sex and has little or no story at all)


Visual Novel - Text based often meant as kinetic
Sandbox - Textbased visual novel but with choices, you move around the map through choices and etc.
RPG - RPGmaker game
OpenWorld - 3D where you play as someone who walks around the world

Male Dom - Dominant Male Protagonist
Male Tag - Male Protagonist
Coprophagia - Scat (poop fetish)




Regardless, I'd recommend The Last Sovereign
Make you use your head

 

[70Dawnlod]

Regardless, I'd recommend The Last Sovereign
Make you use your head

I see now, thanks. Well, it looks like my choice is visual novels, with a man and a lot of women around him, and an adventure, at least what I mentioned above does a good job of it. I've never seen big 3D games with an open world, with the scope of GTA, for example, and at the same time with sex, it seems to me that this only exists in some kind of Skyrim mods.

"The Last Sovereign" is added to my list as well now.

 

[skyblueaster]

My VN. It even has JP art and voice acting.

 

[Ennoch]

wouldn't say appreciate, but tolerate overly-proportiate body parts

This is why you don't get booba.

 

[Nadekai]

My VN. It even has JP art and voice acting.

B-but... aren't you American?

 

[Nadekai]

This is why you don't get booba.

 

[skyblueaster]

B-but... aren't you American?

Yeah but I still prefer JP art and voice acting lol. The game is written in English so it's not a problem.

 

[Nadekai]

Yeah but I still prefer JP art and voice acting lol. The game is written in English so it's not a problem.

That is so weird.
Do you at least have Japanese script?

 

[70Dawnlod]

My VN. It even has JP art and voice acting.

The only time I heard a voice was an important cutscene in "Midnight Paradise", which surprised me a lot. Then I found out that it turns out that on a PС you also can turn on the voiceover of the text using a hotkey, but this electronic voice reads absolutely everything every time, instead of short phrases that are on the screen, which is not necessary.

 

[skyblueaster]

The only time I heard a voice was an important cutscene in "Midnight Paradise", which surprised me a lot. Then I found out that it turns out that on a PС you also can turn on the voiceover of the text using a hotkey, but this electronic voice reads absolutely everything every time, instead of short phrases that are on the screen, which is not necessary.

The voices in my game are recorded using professional JP voice actresses, not TTS/AI though.

That is so weird.
Do you at least have Japanese script?

Yes. The characters’ lines are translated by a human translator.
But the narration, which is a chunk of writing, is not translated yet. We simply don’t have enough funds. We gladly accept donations though. ❤

 

[70Dawnlod]

The voices in my game are recorded using professional JP voice actresses, not TTS/AI though.

Nice, nice, I need to see what you create, though japanese is like alien language to me. The Japanese are very lucky, they have a lot of cool games that are aimed only at the domestic market. It's a pity that no one makes games like this on the scale of AAA projects, it will probably never pay off.

 

[MangoMeta]

My VN. It even has JP art and voice acting.

self advertising and not even giving a top 10 is shameless

 

[BeachBedBunny]

Not in order...

Good Girl Gone Bad
Our Red String
A Wife and Mother
Anna Exciting Affection
Dreams of Desire
My Husband's Boss
Milfy City
Summertime Saga
Steps of Debauchery
Innocence or Money