Best VNs

Umineko may be at it's core an occult themed murder mystery but it is hardly violent or creepy.

Do not do something you're not confident you can do well. Fucking pisses me off when a vn tries and fails y miserably when it can do x well. Keep anything and everything japanese out of it.

Have you played tokimeki memorial and /or True Love, they had a mini stat bulding system which helped you earn money and get stuff and also build your stats, this was important because for example it would be easier to meet and hang out with girls from sports clubs if you played that as your hobby, or if you maxed your looks, some girls will throw themselves at you .I miss those dating sim elements, and i think a dating sim is just a VN with some actual gameplay elements.

Hang on, I might be confusing it with higurashi, aren't they related in any way? A friend showmed some parts of the Higurashi anime and that shit was fucked up.

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Tokimeki memorial is that one Arino played one time in Game Center CX, right? Dating sims elements are cool, I'm considering using those, I'm afraid of making the thing grindy or a race against the clock, tough.

Made by the same people.

I think Shuffle! was a romance/mystery VN then again it may have been an eroge.
Higurashi was definitely a mystery type VN though.

I'm fine with those.
Who knows what directtion this thing goes on…

If you can read moon I think Chaos;Head was a psychological/mystery VN also the prequel of sorts to Steins;Gate. I'm not sure if it ever got a translation, though chances are it did.

It got a full english patch. I read the English one, but I dunno man. The protagonist was a huge fuckboy. Dunno if that matters to OP, but that sure ruined it for me. But on it being related to Steins;Gate, I can't even remember if they reference it in any way other than the name of one of the ost tracks. I know the creators said it was, but I dunno.

I dunno what kinda time you have to read all these VNs OP, but zero escape has some puzzle game to it and the final part is coming out soon if you wanna get on the ball with that. Bare in mind the name convention is bonkers since it started as 999, then went Zero Escape: virtues last reward when they wanted to put it all under a Zero Escape brand, and ends with zero time dilemma coming out the 28th of this month

I'll check it out

Its easy when you have 4 monitors, just play a bunch of them at once with 4 wiimotes.
NEET, and I don't have to finish them all, if it's feeling bland or not what I'm aiming for I can always stop midway through.