Free visual novels on Steam [updated: 26 August 2016]

Sometimes you want to take off your gamedev hat and play something someone else has made. Sometimes your budget is tight.

Here’s a list of all of the Visual Novel/Kinetic Novel games that I could find on Steam (there’s also a couple not-quite-VN interactive fiction titles), not counting demos …

[Updated: 26 August 2016]

Added Regeria Hope Episode 1, Driftwood,

[Updated: 24 June 2016]

Added Elisa: The Innkeeper – Prequel, ChuSingura46+1 S.


Carpe Diem http://store.steampowered.com/app/423880
ChuSingura46+1 S http://store.steampowered.com/app/464780/
CUPID http://store.steampowered.com/app/421670
Depression Quest http://store.steampowered.com/app/270170
Driftwood http://store.steampowered.com/app/510750
Elisa: The Innkeeper – Prequel http://store.steampowered.com/app/472680/
Emily is Away http://store.steampowered.com/app/417860
Everlasting Summer http://store.steampowered.com/app/331470
Frosty Kiss http://store.steampowered.com/app/431540
Invisible Apartment http://store.steampowered.com/app/351790
Lost girl`s [diary] http://store.steampowered.com/app/445230
Lucid9: Inciting Incident http://store.steampowered.com/app/439940
Mystic Destinies: Serendipity of Aeons http://store.steampowered.com/app/431510
Narcissu 1st & 2nd http://store.steampowered.com/app/264380
One Manga Day http://store.steampowered.com/app/365070
One Thousand Lies http://store.steampowered.com/app/463390
Regeria Hope Episode 1 http://store.steampowered.com/app/447570
Rising Angels: Reborn http://store.steampowered.com/app/321840
Runeous: Part One http://store.steampowered.com/app/485800/
SC2VN – The eSports Visual Novel http://store.steampowered.com/app/404480
Seduce Me the Otome http://store.steampowered.com/app/367120
Sepia Tears http://store.steampowered.com/app/429300
Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius http://store.steampowered.com/app/313730
The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne http://store.steampowered.com/app/445130
The Bottom of the Well http://store.steampowered.com/app/449020
The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns http://store.steampowered.com/app/429940
To Burn in Memory http://store.steampowered.com/app/434120
Voices from the Sea http://store.steampowered.com/app/348620
Who Is Mike http://store.steampowered.com/app/377430
Without Within http://store.steampowered.com/app/345650
Written in the Sky http://store.steampowered.com/app/416130