Immerse yourself in a new genre. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Just like JRPGs, visual novels can seem inaccessible at first, ...

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Back in 2011, I spoke with MangaGamer’s Head Translator, John Pickett, about getting the publisher’s visual novels onto Valve’s Steam platform. At the time, Pickett was very critical of Valve’s ...

Even if you’re a fan, the visual novel’s niche status probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise. In many ways, the genre seems an order of magnitude apart from what most people play video games for: ...

Last year, after a number of delays Nitroplus released a remake of the Phantom of Inferno visual novel for the Xbox 360, based on the anime series by studio Bee Train. Now, unsurprisingly, the game is ...

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and we all know how annoying it can be to doomscroll past a seemingly infinite number of photos of people boo’d up, accompanied by eye-roll-inducing song lyric ...

In a year so packed with big-deal games, some of the best are bound to fly under the radar. I hope that Butterfly Soup won’t be one of them — as it’s, without question, one of the most moving, ...