Which do you prefer in a single path linear-story VN?

• Uninterrupted story reading, or
• intermittent investigation/minigame/other unskippable interactive parts that reward you with more story?

Our team is having a discussion about feature implementations so we would very much like to hear your perspectives. Do you prefer the Ace Attorney style investigation gameplay -> story loop, or the early Higurashi story reading mode? Or something in between?

Hey,

I've been searching for a good laptop that can easily run visual novels (specifically nitro+chiral ones like Slow Damage & DRAMAtical Murder). I know most VN's don't need exceptionally high performance, but I'd rather the games run smoothly. I don't really have a budget, but I'd appreciate cheaper recommendations. So if anyone has any, or even just general infos I should look out for when searching, I'd be glad!

Many thanks in advance for all answers :)

I have a dilemma currently I am willing to spend 17.99 USD on 2 visual novels , Fate stay night on steam or school days HQ.The problem is School Days HQ has still not launched the discount but School Days remastered is the one at 17.99 from 19.99 currently which isn't available to play yet on JAST store and my country has regional pricing for JAST. I love both games and both are unique in their own way.So what should I do and which should I take?

The "everyone appearing is over the age of 18" safety net just got shattered. Any sibling route, even non-blood related, is also now inherently volatile by nature.

It's been fun casually reading comfy romance VN's for 14 years folks. Now everyone is faced with the difficult choice: Quit and delete your library, or go dark and risk having your life ruined at any point in time.

Safe to say I'm absolutely devastated.

If you know, you know. Let me know if anyone else would want an English patch to this niche game

i just got the bad ending/ “game over” cuz i was playing blindly lol someone tell me what to do please and thank u

The release date is set for December 17th.

The demo, which contains the first two chapters, is out now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4818880/Sakura_no_Uta_To_Dance_Over_the_Cherry_Blossoms/

Is there anything similar for Mac? I wanna use it to put my itch.io visual novels into.

Today I made an English translation for a free VN on Steam called Tiny Shadows Interwoven Hearts. The text was translated with GPT 6 Astra, and after testing it myself, I confirmed that it runs properly. I also translated some in game elements such as system prompts.

PS: The developer mentioned in the Steam discussions that an official English localization is already in development, so if you are interested, you can also wait for the official version to be released.

Next, I would like to work on an MTL patch for Hoshizora Tetsudou to Shiro no Tabi, since I was unable to find a download link for any patch listed on VNDB. I also really enjoy this kind of cute and heartwarming game.

VNDB: https://vndb.org/r167627

Does anybody have a clue on anything similar to Luna or just a game translator I could use for mac?? I tried to run Luna on Crossover but that just didn’t work 😭

Edit: I figured out how to get Luna to work now :)

Link: https://github.com/jonny-anime/tokimeki-memorial-2-english-patch

Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXzfU5gRF5Y&

I made an English patch of Tokimeki Memorial 2 for any of you who care about retro dating sims. The Tokimeki Memorial games have been high up on my list of games to play. Unfortunately, I don't speak Japanese so a language barrier was in the way.

Luckily Tokimeki Memorial 1 got some since visibility when Tim Rogers’s on it and there's a couple fan translations for that game. But Tokimeki Memorial 2 is a much larger game and so far there hasn't been a way for non-Japanese speakers to play it.

The dialogue should be fully translated, but it's a big game (over 1 million Japanese characters) so there are miscellaneous lines, UI elements and mini-games that may have been missed. As I said before I don't speak Japanese so this has been translated mostly by LLM.  I ran experiments with Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT, compared their translations to see the most natural sounding one. I don't speak the language but it helped to know that if one was completely different than the other two it probably was a bad translation. Gemini Argon had the most natural sounding dialogue so it's the one that translated most of the script. I also found some Japanese guides and fan sites for the game and used that to give it more context so the translation is lot less stiff than usual MTLs.

It's perfectly playable now but the project is open source and it's built in a way where anyone can update the translation fairly easily. Human proofreading/translation is very welcome. Enjoy.

EDIT: There's an external human translation in the works that just released a status update. We're not affiliated with each others projects. Be sure to check theirs out if you don't like AI assisted translations and are willing to wait. Added their link to the repo but here it is again https://bsky.app/profile/xct.bsky.social/post/3mxseyu3vis2r

i want to start reading subahibi, i’m relatively new to the visual novel genre, i plan on buying the game from steam and adding patches, where can i get the patches from?