![]() Gone are the days of the genre being a small corner of gaming exclusively for those who could read Japanese: here are some of the best gateways into the world of visual novels. Dip just a toe and you can be rewarded with phenomenal writing and gorgeous artwork, both underpinning intricate stories with twisting paths controlled by the player. It doesn't take long for the curious to discover masterpieces that have finally been translated into English in recent years, and to move onto further interactive fiction that has been inspired by the visual novel genre. Gravity defying breasts, school uniforms, girls that appear to survive on the attention of the player: eroge games, for better or worse, have attributed to the rising popularity of visual novels and the related dating simulators, for reasons that should be fairly obvious.īut beyond the smut and the grot, there's so much more to visual novels. ![]() If you've ever browsed Steam for so long that you've stumbled into its darker corners, you've undoubtedly seen some of these games. Typically called "eroge," the more adult market-focused visual novels feature Japanese-drawn pornography, which has become known globally as the catchall of hentai.
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