Capcom has announced that The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles sales numbers have topped 500,000 worldwide. The studio celebrated this milestone with a rather adorable piece of artwork depicting some of…
April 15, 2022 | 09:34 EDT
Dating sims are a pretty broad genre of games these days. From dating sims about cosmic monstrosities to ones about pigeons, and even dating sims for people who don’t like dating sims. You can’t move…
December 15, 2021 | 10:00 EST
It’s hard to imagine, given the sheer ecstasy with which Ace Attorney fans responded to the news that both Great Ace Attorney games would release in the West, but neither of them are believed to have…
October 12, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
The Ace Attorney series returns with a brand new game collection, where you must use your skills of deduction to battle it out in dramatic courtroom dramas. Are you ready for The Great Ace Attorney…
August 8, 2021 | 08:15 EDT
Since the Japanese release of The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures back in 2015 on the 3DS and the arrival of its sequel The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve two years later, series fans have been eagerly…
August 18, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
The Shadow You is a unique blend of visual novel and adventure while telling two different stories. Play as Ophelia and Kiel, two characters who fight together in a MMORPG and try to build a…
February 28, 2021 | 03:37 EST
In my first half hour of playing The Shadow You, I was cringing but I kept humoring it. It reminded me of community-made games on Newgrounds, filled to the brim with teenage emotion and indignation.…
February 22, 2021 | 11:30 EST
What happens after happily ever after? Developer and publisher Dicesuki attempts to answer that age-old question by creating a fandisk of Cinderella Phenomenon: Evermore. A fandisk is a game that…
January 10, 2021 | 08:24 EST
I’ve never been a huge fan of Otome games, or dating sims in general. They’re much more my best friend’s thing than mine. However, a few years ago, when browsing on TvTropes, I found a description of…
January 13, 2021 | 10:00 EST
The N1RV Ann-A release date has been indefinitely delayed amidst major changes made to the game's code framework and underlying story according to a new announcement from the developers. N1RV Ann-A…
December 1, 2020 | 04:19 EST
Spike Chunsoft didn't become synonymous with "bizarre mysteries and gruesome deaths" until the mid-2010s when the Danganronpa series exploded in popularity in both Japan and the West. Unfortunately,…
November 17, 2020 | 01:00 EST
Play as Lady Whiteley, a young, aspiring detective who must sharpen her deductive skills in the visual novel London Detective Mysteria. Take control of Lady Whiteley to uncover the mysteries of her…
October 9, 2020 | 03:18 EDT
If Found… is an interactive visual novel from Dreamfeel about searching for connection. Achill Island, December 31st, 1993. In the crumbling ruin of an old mansion, a young Irish woman called Kasio…
May 31, 2020 | 12:18 EDT
If Found... seemed like a relatively unassuming visual novel. It mixes together certain contemporary sci-fi ideas with existentialist themes and young adult staples like aimlessness and self-identity…
May 28, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
Solace State is a 3D visual novel that hopes to help open up a dialogue and let players think about social situations differently and with a new perspective. This sci-fi story tackles the concept of…
May 11, 2020 | 07:50 EDT
It's not often visual novels try to raise the bar and become something much more than just another interactive book. It's also even rarer that a game with politically charged roots tries to address…
May 13, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Releasing on PlayStation 4 on April 28th, Sakura Wars brings the series back to the west, and the newest trailer shows some of the foes in the conflict. As the Flower Division prepares for the Combat…
April 14, 2020 | 10:00 EDT
I spent a solid 24 hours in my review of Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator. This game developed by Studio Namaapa and published by PQube is an interesting mix of visual novel, life simulator…
February 21, 2020 | 11:30 EST
At first glance, Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator seems like an eclectic blend of game genres and themes. It aims to combine life simulators, turn-based RPGs, and visual novels into an epic…
February 20, 2020 | 09:00 EST
Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator is, in a sense, like an As Seen On TV product — it's three games in one! It's a life simulator, it's an RPG, it slices, it dices! This game combines a life…
January 27, 2020 | 04:16 EST
Every now and again, you stumble across a game that does something new and interesting. Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator is exactly that kind of game. Set more than a thousand years in the…
January 31, 2020 | 11:00 EST
It seems that the world still isn't quite done with Telltale games as word begins to spread around the internet for a Telltale Batman Shadow Edition. The original Telltale Batman ran for two seasons…
December 12, 2019 | 08:22 EST
Raging Loop is a psychological horror Visual Novel that takes place in the Japanese village of Yasumizu. With a focus on branching stories and new game plus it pays tribute to Japenese folk lore as…
October 19, 2019 | 11:58 EDT
When I look back on all the Lyft and Uber rides I’ve taken in my life, not even the best ones come close to reflecting my experience playing Neo Cab. You play as a ride-share service driver in the…
October 9, 2019 | 06:44 EDT
Neo Cab takes place in the near future in the city of Los Ojos, California. A megacorporation called Capra has taken over most of the modern world, with its technology taking over most of everyone's…
October 6, 2019 | 08:10 EDT
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a world where one megacorporation controls almost everything in your life? Same here. That’s why I played Neo Cab, a near-future cyberpunk…
October 6, 2019 | 08:05 EDT
Are you ready to drive a cab? More specifically, the last cab operated by a human instead of a robot? Neo Cab offers this to you, and you don't have to wait long to play it. Neo Cab is a mystery…
September 19, 2019 | 10:00 EDT
The year was 2013. BBC’s Sherlock was waiting for a highly anticipated third season, CBS’s Elementary had premiered its second season, yet another iteration of Lupin III had just premiered the year…
August 23, 2019 | 12:30 EDT
Have you ever wanted to raise a daughter of your very own? How about raising a daughter on a floating city where humanity survives after a devastating alien invasion? Oh, and she can grow up to be…
July 10, 2019 | 10:00 EDT
HuniePop is a game that practically launched a subgenre. This game from HuniePot combines Match-3 puzzle gameplay, a dating simulator, and visual novel mechanics all into one surreal (and sexy!)…
October 24, 2019 | 01:31 EDT
Ride-share services have become a prominent part of everyday life, to the point where “taxi” sounds like a foreign word. Neo Cab latched onto that concept and put a unique twist on it. You play as…
July 9, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
PQube and developer Kemco announced that psychological horror visual novel Raging Loop is coming to PS4 and Switch later this year. The releases are set to come physically and digitally for both…
June 5, 2019 | 09:30 EDT
Coming this summer to Nintendo Switch is Neo Cab, an "emotional survival game." The protagonist, Lina, is a rideshare driver. Lina is the last human driver on the bright neon streets of Los Ojos,…
March 20, 2019 | 01:09 EDT
MiniChimera Game Studio has announced Blackout: The Darkest Night, an indie adventure game that's set to come to PC, Mac, and Linux in 2019. In Blackout: The Darkest Night, you have suffered a…
November 29, 2018 | 08:20 EST
Blackout: The Darkest Night is an upcoming choose your own adventure game from indie devs MiniChimera Game Studio influenced by horror works from Lovecraft, White Wolf/Paradox's World of Darkness and…
November 29, 2018 | 08:20 EST
As noted by its absence in Sega's quarterly report, New Sakura Wars is no longer planned for a release in the fiscal year 2019. This news was first spotted by DualShockers and should come as no…
November 2, 2018 | 09:30 EDT
A new entry in the Sakura Wars franchise aptly titles New Sakura Wars. This game will be the first Sakura Wars game since the 2005 release of Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love. Set in the history of …
November 2, 2018 | 08:53 EDT
PQube announced that adventure visual novel Punch Line will come to PS4, PS Vita and PC on August 31st in Europe, and September 25th in North America. Written by Zero Escape producer Kotaro Uchikoshi…
August 8, 2018 | 07:48 EDT
Punch Line is a visual novel/adventure game by Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi and MAGES, being brought west by PQube. It will release first in Europe on August 31, and in North America on…
August 8, 2018 | 07:45 EDT
Indie studio Chance Agency released a trailer for their first game, a narrative game called Neo Cab in the PC Gaming Show at E3 2018. Neo Cab has a cyberpunk art style and atmosphere. You play as an…
June 11, 2018 | 07:16 EDT
Punch Line, the thrilling Visual Novel adventure made by the creators of the Zero Escape Trilogy, is finally making its way to the west. In true Visual Novel fashion, players adopt the role of Yuta…
May 6, 2018 | 02:20 EDT
Coming out of SegaFes 2018, the perennial publisher announced that a new Sakura Wars (the series is known as Sakura Taisen in Japan) game was in development, with more details to come later.…
April 14, 2018 | 08:50 EDT
Return to the frozen white wasteland with Icy: Frostbite Edition. An all new experience building on the original release of Icy, the Frostbite Edition adds new features to the game, including a…
October 14, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Ghosts of Miami is a visual novel where you take on the role of Chelo Martinez, an unlicensed private investigator who specializes in finding missing persons in 1980's Miami. You'll travel the city…
October 4, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
My parents were prolific readers, and among their collection of books was a large library of Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys. I read these detective stories voraciously, and I've loved a good mystery…
October 4, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Supergiant Games announced that a new update for Pyre is out today for free on PC, and is scheduled to come out soon on PlayStation 4. The update, called the True Nightwing update, will bring a new…
September 28, 2017 | 05:10 EDT
I read a bunch of The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew when I was a young'un. I spent a goodly portion of my formative years watching procedural dramas like Matlock and Perry Mason unfold at my grandparents…
September 5, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
In Pyre, you play as the Reader, a woman who has just been exiled to the Downside. You are quickly found by three other exiles and learn about the Rites, a series of competitions that may be your…
July 28, 2017 | 09:00 EDT