rating: 6/10

this was good, and told very uniquely as compared to other vns. it feels more like an animated manga. the individual character routes were extremely lacking & suffered from short length; but the common route & music & art is very impressive. a good short read, if you want.

rating: 5/10

a speedrun read, out-of-the-blue, done in pure shock that this vn actually got translated. it’s a good translation, no doubt——but this story is hilariously bad. all of these characters are horrible minus the little sister character, which is super surprising, considering the imoutos are usually the worst & most annoying characters. the art is gorgeous, of course.....and the story takes place in winter, so obviously i love it a little bit!!!

rating: 8/10

i feel like i enjoyed kanon a little too much & most people wouldn’t rate it an 8. but it’s my strange obsession with stories that take place in winter & strange girls with depressing backgrounds that really hooked me. something about kanon’s slice of life felt really special, too, but maybe that’s just the key magic at work.....

rating: 8/10

i’m a diehard fan of the key vns, so i’m slightly biased toward air despite its slow-paced writing, airheaded heroines, and questionable pornographic scenes. but air’s atmosphere is on another level. never before has a sleepy summer town been better represented than in air........it’s a very beautiful, tragic story that i still think about today.

rating: 10/10

a vn standing alongside little busters as my favorite, and a story i cannot recommend enough. fata morgana is genuinely everything. and you will never read anything like it. michel is my favorite protagonist ever. i could glaze the usual things like OST, art, LGBT rep, story etc etc etc but please just experience this masterpiece for yourself.

rating: 6/10

i call this vn my “down bad” read, but i won’t go too in-depth about that. mid story, mid characters, mid everything; it’s yuzusoft, hahahaha........if you’re reading yuzusoft, you’re only reading it for one thing. or you just really like your moege & haven’t felt the touch of a woman. sorry yuzusoft fans. sabbat of the witch is really cute, i’ll give it that

rating: 9/10

a great ending to a very unique, tame mystery. don’t expect any usual innocent grey violence with this series——but there was honestly no way for me to anticipate the reasoning behind the main conflict in the four entries. another reason why this volume probably stuck with me so is my strange attraction toward stories that take place in winter.........

rating: 2/10

back in my yuri craze phase (i need this phase back lowkey), i waited for this release from a completely unknown company..........and got extremely let down. cliffhanger ending that i have no interest in reading a sequel for because the story itself was on ungodly levels of boring & none of these characters have any substance. a least favorite read of mine...

rating: 7/10

a cute continuation of a visual novel very beloved to me. the forced auto-read is extremely irritating, though.........in spite of this, goto-p’s art is beautiful & the side stories are a wonderful continuation of building the world (both illusionary & not) of clannad.

rating: 9/10

a vn i read only out of the interest of liking the art, only to be completely blown away by one of the most tragic stories following an abusive relationship. sweet pool doesn’t try to make itself look good, either. it wasn’t my usual kind of read & it really surprised me! i gotta hop on more tragic insane violent BL vns because nitro chiral is cooking......i keep the one coin figures of tetsuo & youji at my desk :-)

rating: 8/10

such a beautiful story, in spite of its short length! another vn i would suggest to first-time vn readers (but often don’t recommend because of its price); the most beautiful prose i’ve ever read in a vn alongside komatsu e-ji’s gorgeous art......i gotta read more of key’s strange kinetic vns about robots.

rating: 9/10

i’m among the dramatic that freaked out at many of the horror scenes in this vn; it’s so well-written and you can’t deny it. the effort & worldbuilding within this visual novel makes it the great standout that it is....my only gripe, forever and always, will be the ending (and i think this is a common complaint for this vn). but even the ending didn’t really change how i feel about the rest of the story.

rating: 7/10

i’m a slice-of-life lover but can honestly state that i found muv-luv extra really boring and somewhat unfun, no matter how upbeat and (tbh) overstimulating it was. still, paired with muv-luv unlimited, it’s one of the greatest beginnings to a story ever. muv-luv alternative wouldn’t be good without muv-luv. i obviously enjoyed it a little bit, too, hence the 7/10......

rating: 7/10

a story, separated into two parts & five chapters, where each chapter gets progressively darker than the last. it doesn’t get too dark, though. nothing psychological horror-like. a pretty sad visual novel that left me feeling sour but was very beautiful & well-produced nonetheless. i guess that’s minori vns for you......

rating: 9/10

it’s laughable that i’m reading the infinity series completely out of order, but the story is amazing enough standalone that it earned a 9/10. a phenomenal sci-fi mystery that takes advantage of the vn medium amazingly. the open ending didn’t bother me as much as i thought it would......besides, i think the fact that it is a little unclear is the point! i recommend this one, just read up on it after you’ve finished......if you don’t get stuck ;-)

rating: 6/10

i’m really surprised this vn isn’t more popular (given the whole menhera girl thing)! it’s not a particularly good read but it has extremely memorable characters & a soundtrack i go back to really often......its visuals are very dreamy & reminiscent of cotton candy, yet the story is so dark & i’ll never forget about that girl shitting herself on the brink of death.

rating: 9/10

i’m biased in that clannad was the very first anime i ever watched (interesting choice); this story was the beginning of a fascination with japanese nakiges. a very touching story about growing up & family...a slow burn (like all key vns), but worth the effort overall.

rating: 3/10

a pretty awful visual novel with predictable twists & half-baked drama. my interest in this vn only came from 1. korie riko’s art 2. liking mystery stories. but the story & the characters are all very forgettable. art is wonderful, obviously.

rating: 6/10

i have no idea why i enjoyed this or read it for as long as i did (i feel like this is the kind of story you can spread out over many months, & just read it when you’re bored), but i did. the heroines are so charming & everything cutesy/cliche about the vn medium is stuffed into this staple series for high school romance simulators; it’s good if you’re not expecting much

rating: 7/10

one of the weaker entries of the flowers series. it didn’t resonate with me as much as the others; but, it was still very lovely, & explored a lot about religion and homosexuality in a way i didn’t expect......(though maybe that’s a given, since it’s a yuri vn taking place in a missionary school? rofl)......again, art & music are next level.

rating: 6/10

an extremely well-written horror story that i often recommend if the reader can stomach some of its deranged content; saya has no reason to look like a little girl & that’ll forever be my gripe with this vn. everything else about it is really freaking good, though......you are sick in your head, gen urobuchi.

rating: 7/10

i’m not certain why this visual novel has the outstanding following that it does (probably the art & menhera girls); but, it’s still a good one. surprisingly, i don’t have much to say for this one, other than that i’m an aoihead & think she’s in the conversation for one of the best vn characters ever. probably because she encompasses them all.......!!

rating: 8/10

a vn i wish i could re-read for the first time again....or at least experience something similar with a touching romance + battle-of-wits crime drama. there probably are things like this that i’m just stupidly missing out on. usami haru is one of my favorite vn heroines ever, the soundtrack (& vocal tracks especially) is in my top 3. knocked off points for how horrible the other heroines are, hehe

rating: 10/10

my favorite visual novel of all time. completely reformed the way i view human relationships & my time on this earth.........little busters is one of the greatest pieces of media of all time (albeit its slight flaws) &, honestly, the best representation of what a good visual novel is. i love you forever, kyousuke natsume......

rating: 5/10

one of my least favorite visual novels, doomed to never be translated to any good quality imaginable. save yourself any trouble of reading the english versions, every single one of them is a mess. gorgeous art & music & really well-written heroines. horrendous protagonist. maybe i just don’t understand taichi...

rating: 9/10

i don’t think my disturbed experience with subahibi can be replicated by any other vn. it turned me into a better writer, i’ll definitely say, & i’ll always be grateful i got to read this story. one point knocked off for hasaki (annoying) & stupid porn scenes (you a sick freak sca-ji). i’ll shill for this vn any day, though

rating: 7/10

my go-to recommendation for friends that don’t read vns. i think i’ve watched ten different people read this vn. once very ill and frequent to hospital visits, i read narcissu at the most perfect time in my life & resonated with the characters unforgettably. if you’re reading this, wondering where to start with vns——this is the one! sequel is forgettable though rofl

rating: 9/10

a phenomenal continuation of the flowers series that got me so hooked, it resulted in the first time i ever waited for a translation for a vn. a day would not go by where i didn’t think about how long jast stalled the third volume. erika is one of my favorite vn protagonists ever. chidori is the goat. i just have a thing for strange, eccentric, loner characters.

rating: 3/10

i’m not sure why i read this. it was probably how accessible it was (on the jast website) & the beautiful PC-98 visuals (used to have a phase where i was obsessed with PC-98 art...), but this is a really horrible story & not worth anyone’s time. unless you’re like a diehard vn consumer and need to read every single english-translated vn on the planet.

rating: 8/10

a perfect introduction to a four-volume yuri series. the flowers series has an unmatched atmosphere that no other vn can replicate; sugina miki’s art is undeniably just as impressive & unlike anything in the medium, too. some of his art is used on this website, after all.........

rating: 8/10

my comfort visual novel. the premise seems extremely porny, but was genuinely one of the cutest & lighthearted (& surprisingly, at one point, emotional) stories i’ve ever read. this one is tough to recommend, because it was probably a normal read when i was 14 years old, but not so much these days....youka/aki forever!!

rating: 8/10

my memory of many katawa shoujo routes other than rin’s is feeble. all of the characters are very special & likable in their own ways, hence the cult-like fanbase each heroine has.....katawa shoujo feels like the only monogamous vn ever. people find one girl they love and hook onto her forever. i’ve re-read rin’s route seven times, the most i’ve ever re-read a vn, and genuinely think about it every single day. i’ve never related to a character more.

rating: 5/10

i’m forced to like ddlc a little bit as it was one of my first vns + i can’t ignore how manipulating the game files was a peak method of storytelling. i go back to jacksepticeye’s playthrough of this vn often. but at the same time, i think i’m on the bandwagon of other vn readers that ddlc is hot ass all-the-while......

rating: 4/10 (unintended)

you search for free english vns and this is the muck you get. i can’t deny how iconic everlasting summer is, however, and how it irreversibly changed my brain to have a strange connection to the number “410.” ever since reading this story, i notice this number pop up in my life every single day. amazing soundtrack btw. lena is the worst character ever.