R18 patch – sometimes games ( Nekopara, Totono etc.) you buy on Steam do not have sexual content in them due to Steam’s policy, but you can buy the patch itself on the producents’ website for around $2-$3 or sometimes get it for free.įor me, personally, visual novels are books with anime visuals and choices that you, the player, have to make.Short/Medium/Long/Very Long – 2h-10h / 10h-30h / 30h-50h / 50h+ – those values are taken from vndb, a website similar to myanimelist but with visual novels instead of anime.CGs – CG is a picture in the game, it’s mainly an artwork that is displayed during a certain scene in the game.Visual novels though have various numbers of them and usually, they have only one “True Ending” Ending – yeah, you got it, it’s just an ending to the game.Let’s say you like character X and you want the protagonist to end up together with X.

Route – “path” that you take in a game.First, let me explain some of the terminologies used in the VN community that you will need in order to better understand this article:

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