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#1 Post by Lillandriel »

Hello ♪

I just realized that in all the Visual novels I've played there are romance. So, i was wondering if there were Visual novels where the main focus is not to find love?

Can you give me advice please? ^^

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#2 Post by gekiganwing »

Lillandriel wrote:So, i was wondering if there were Visual novels where the main focus is not to find love?
Here are ten well-regarded non-romance VNs which have a complete English version or translation patch:

* Steins;Gate: Mostly a suspense / science fiction story.
* Umineko - When the Seagulls Cry: A detective / suspense tale.
* Ever17: Mostly a science fiction / survival story. (Out of print.)
* Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: A borderline adventure game about survival.
* Phoenix Wright: An interactive story about lawyers.
* Root Double: A tale about escaping a dangerous place.
* Dangan Ronpa: A borderline adventure game focused on murder mystery.
* VA-11 HALL-A: A story about bartending in a dystopia.
* Rose Guns Days: An alternate history tale about crime and politics.
* Corpse Party: A horror story about being trapped.

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#3 Post by trooper6 »

Just a few that I personally have played:

The Elevator
Analogue: A Hate Story
Cave Cave Deus Video
Once an Artist
The One in Love
Locked In

I actually don't play a whole like of games that have the focus on finding love.
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Feel strange to say this, as I worked on the VN itself, but The Falconers: Moonlight is a historical supernatural thriller, not romance.
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Is it vain to plug your own VN in this topic? :wink:
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#7 Post by Lillandriel »

Thanks for all your advices. ^^ I'll try these ones.

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#8 Post by Katy133 »

In the VN Database, you can search for visual novels that have (or don't have) different tags (including romance).

I've applied the filter (English visual novels without romance) for you here. ;)
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#9 Post by Evy »

gekiganwing wrote:* Umineko - When the Seagulls Cry: A detective / suspense tale.
"Without love, the truth cannot be seen."

Umineko is a murder-mystery at first, but it becomes progressively more evident over the series that it is, at its core, a romance, albeit a very unusual one.

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#10 Post by Banana »

I'd say that Umineko defies genre. If it were a print novel it'd most likely be shelved in postmodern literature alongside House of Leaves or Dorst's S, I reckon.

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Shameless self-advertisement: My VNs are often not about romance:

The Loyal Kinsman - a medieval murder mystery
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The Dreaming - a horror story about things that dwell in the darkness of the mind
Metropolitan Blues - a somber story about finding yourself when you don't even know what you are
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