Upcoming visual novel games in 2026

Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.

A paper airplane, two new neighbors, four autumns, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable, choice-heavy story where you grow from childhood to adulthood.

Class is (back) in session with Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School! Play in solo or co-op and explore an all-new campus, escape life-threatening puzzle rooms, and unravel a conspiracy as old as the school itself — all before the bell rings.

Tokyo, 1998. A rain that never ends and a girl who wants everything to end. Two lonely youths will change the world with their choices.

A short short mix tape of one story that connects three shorter stories. On the NewWave, a magical game console that is retro but new, enjoy DON'T SAY YES, TO:NORTH, and a secret tale nobody yet knows. Welcome to a slightly fantastical and nostalgic world of painful, toilful, and beautiful stories!

Have a psychotic episode in your bathtub. Argue with a rubber duck, flood your bathroom and drown dad. Find your very own ending – or all of them.

Help a doomer girl make her VTuber persona popular and escape her depressive routine. If you can.

Drăculești is a villain-focused reimagining of the classic novel Dracula that shines a light on the shadowy figures of Renfield, Dracula's Brides, and Dracula himself. Be enthralled by the residents of Castle Dracula, and thrill at a dark narrative with strong LGBTQI+ themes.

Almost My Floor: Duality - a noir detective horror-adventure game about the internal struggle with depression and the impending darkness in a provincial town. The gameplay is based on decision-making mechanics and a branching storyline.

In this "life-intervention watching game," you control the earthbound spirit "Urami-chan." Travel between an apartment's past and present to change the murdered resident's future. The game unfolds in semi-real time, tasking you to watch over the resident and intervene.

A new Hakuoki game for Nintendo Switch, set in 19th century Europe.

Killer Chat is a dark satire romance chatsim where you date serial killers. Pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love, and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. Who knows? You might find your happily ever after... or headline the news as a gruesomely lovesick corpse. It's honestly up to you.

Imperial Grace is a unique mix of romance, medieval intrigue, and strategy. Play as the new Empress of Calidya through a visual novel rife with ambition and deceit. Make choices that will change your fate and that of your nation, rule wisely to make your Empire prosper, and find love along the way!

Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.

Rottenroots is a branching narrative role-playing game set in a dystopian world where conformity means survival. Guide Salem through moral dilemmas, time-pressured choices, and dynamic character interactions. Your decisions shape his personality, relationships, and fate in this gripping story.

In this animated manhwa-inspired romance fantasy, toy with princes behind their perfect masks. Fall in love? Maybe. Make them fall for you? Absolutely. You are unpredictable, audacious, and just unhinged enough to make history. Heroine or villainess? Why not both?

Heist your own school to get the exams' answers and discover why so many students have disappeared in Noirmont High. Spooky and nostalgic.

Three loves. One week. Zero chill. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you’re headed?

Noir visual novel set in 1950s New York. Infiltrate a prison, build a smuggling network, and shape fates through tough choices across branching paths.

Search the ashes of an abandoned Latin American town and uncover 400 years of secrets. An epic non-linear mystery where you travel back in time and untangle the history of a community cursed by generations of supernatural forces.

Two vampires — an ambitious Kindred and a wretched Thinblood. Their fates clash in this Visual Novel set in the World of Darkness, where your arsenal extends beyond just words — from political machinations to forbidden Alchemy. Claw your way to power and leave your bitemarks on Berlin's underworld.

House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?

Crystallium is a furry-themed rhythm game where you build a team of warriors to fight monsters. Vanquish corruption from the dungeons and unearth the ancient mystery that has faded from everyone's memory.

Lucia's just killed her husband... probably. Can you get a confession before her lawyers arrive? Use your own words to manipulate, persuade, threaten, or even seduce her into 'fessing up. This billionaire has a terrible secret. And time is running out.