visual novel

Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club is an adventure game/visual novel for Nintendo Switch where you must solve a mystery. Is this game worth checking out? Here’s our review! Emio- The Smiling Man is a brand-new game in the Famicom Detective Club series. We previously reviewed the remakes of the original games. This new game has a completely new story with the detectives from the other game and a new case. The story is the most important aspect…

Last night, a demo for Emio The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club was released. We checked out the demo and now have some thoughts on it. Emio The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club is a sequel to the previous Famicom Detective Club games. Those games were remade on the Nintendo Switch. We reviewed the remake and thought it was worth checking out. A demo was released yesterday for Emio. We checked that out too! Here’s what we thought: The demo…

Aquadine is a beautiful visual novel where most of the story is pretty straightforward and players will have an immersive story experience when playing this game. I was given a chance to check out Aquadine from SoftColors, and I have to say it was really fun playing with it, I knew from the start I will enjoy a good story. My fellow writer Kevin Austin did a great review for the game from his perspective. In my review, we will…

So, first off let me say, coming into this review I knew absolutely nothing about Aquadine. I never heard from it, wasn’t on my radar or anything. Let’s check out the official description: After his mother was hospitalized for an unknown disease, Robin Liyun works as a part-time gondolier to make ends meet, but under an alias named Ciel. As he finishes giving tours one night, a mysterious voice lures him to discover a beautiful mermaid. She dives underwater shortly…

Are you tired of the adventure/visual novel games that make you play as the detective who solves the murder? What about a game where you are the killer and you’re trying to get away with it? Look for the fall guy (or gal), make sure you get the insurance and have your happy ending! Welcome to Overboard! for the Nintendo Switch. Is this something you’ll enjoy? Let’s start plotting a review. If you don’t have a dark sense of humor,…

Don’t go overboard! Push ’em overboard instead! A new game lets you be the murderer without actually, you know, committing a crime in real life. Because you shouldn’t do that. But in Overboard! for the Nintendo Switch, you are the killer and you have find a fall guy (or gal). Take a look at this trailer! Overboard! is out for the Nintendo Switch eshop right now. inkle, the company that brought us the awesome Heaven’s Vault, is behind this game…

Dry Drowning is an investigative thriller-oriented visual novel set in the futuristic dystopian universe of Nova Polemos. A shady socio-political situation dragging everything down to the abyss, a serial killer drawing strength from this darkness, a tormented detective, and his assistant craving for redemption. Dry Drowning challenges the player to find the truth, going through ambiguous characters, riddles, clues, and unexpected events while telling an extremely compelling and mature story. Game Features Choices really matter: Players choices can lead to…

Simon Forman was not a doctor. He read the stars and told people what he saw in them. He was, however, a real person. He is also the star of Astrologaster for the Nintendo Switch. Welcome to our review of this unique experience. Astrologaster is not a traditional game. In fact the closest thing to compare it to is a visual novel. Basically there is a lot of reading/listening and some choices to make in Astrologaster. If you like British…

We’ve seen a lot of Metroidvania’s on the Nintendo Switch but what about a Metroidvania that combines elements of an rpg and a visual novel? Enter Even the Ocean for Nintendo Switch, a hybrid of sorts: one part Metroidvania, one part rpg, and one part visual novel. Is it any good? Even the Ocean isn’t defined by just one genre. At first glance, its a Metroidvania. And then you see its world map and you think “oh its an rpg”…

Its always good to try something new once and awhile. When I noticed that I had a code for a game called Roommates, I looked into it. A visual novel? A dating sim? Hmm. I don’t know. I skeptical. Still. You should try something every once and awhile. And so I tried out Roommates for the Nintendo Switch. Roommates is a visual novel with dating sim elements. What’s a visual novel you ask? Basically a visual novel is a game…