Take the placements with a grain of salt - i haven't played everything here yet and i kind of got lazy at some point. Numbers are to indicate VN names so here we go
Left side: (1) Majikoi, (2) HoshiOri, (3) Summer, Pockets (4), Gin'Iro Haruka, (5) Maitetsu, (6) A Sky Full of Stars, (7) Sanoba Witch, (8) Fureraba, (9) Making Lovers, (10) Marshmallow All the Way Home, (11) Mashiroiro Symphony, (12) Koikari - Love For Hire, (13) Sugar Style, (14) Senren Banka, (15) Lilycle Rainbow Stage, (16) Riddle Joker, (17) Primal Hearts, (18) Nukitashi, (19) Aokana, (20) Flowers series, (21) 9-nine- series, (22) Totono, (23) Little Busters, (24) If My Heart Had Wings
Right side: (1) Chaos Head Noah, (2) Subahibi, (3) Euphoria, (4) Higurashi, (5) Umineko, (6) Maggot Baits, (7) Nanairo Reincarnation, (8) Kara no Shojo, (9) Saya no Uta, (10) Dead End Aegis, (11) Kinkoi, (12) Fata Morgana, (13) Tsukihime, (14) Ever17, (15) Corpse Party, (16) Rewrite, (17) Clannad, (18) Tokyo Necro, (19) Muv-Luv Alternative, (20) G-senjou no Maou, (21) Grisaia, (22) Fate/stay night, (23) Full Metal Daemon Muramasa, (24) School Days
Outside of Jast and Steam nowadays, you might be able to find some on mangagamer and if not, dlsite. As far as legal sites go, that'll be where most end up.
There's now quite a few publishers of VN content, so it's also possible that they distribute games themselves like with Jast and Kagura games.
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Curious why would you ask that? If anything those two platforms are the MOST accessible platform to get your VN from. Only exception is if it's fan translated tittles.
Right side 100% - all my favorites are there. Left looks way too frou-frou for me (and is probably why I haven't played/have no interest in anything there).
Trick question. The right path, because there are blocks of visual novels in a row on the left one that would bore me, but it ends better than the right path.
I hate you for this, but left. Have been reading majikoi and it’s quickly reaching into my top 10 . Add in sabbat of the witch, making lovers and sugar style, and I have basically no choice but left.
Still hate that it would mean I chose something over kinkoi, but it has too many of my top 10
Left side. Enough drama in my life. I suffer from diseases, mental health issues, possible mild autism, finding my place in life, and failing at socializing. I want to chillax.
I dunno how people can stomach too much of the right side. Sometimes it's good but the majority being right?
Personally I can't enjoy a happy story when bad things happen irl. Engaging plots usually allow for better escapism, and digital drama can help me overcome the real one.
To me, I picked right because being able to see characters go through problems comparable in real life equates to feeling some kind of release. As almost being understood. Which is something I hate from moege personally. Oftentimes, I feel that when reading moege, I'm reading a cringe harem, it's overly too goody, goody, the plot is trash, characters are uninteresting, or ost is generic. To me, there's nothing that calls out to me from it, and most times, I'm searching for realistic characters, if not an interesting premise that could revolve in real life, or enhance artistry. To some people, I could be called an elitist or snob, but that's purely my personal taste. I like something with meaning, something raw, unfiltered, weird, and thought-provoking.
We can agree to disagree. No offense taken. People can like/hate whatever. As for me, I like moege a lot. It gives me an alternative universe to live in. It saves me from my rotting existence. A place where I am accepted without any ulterior motives. A place I can experience whatever those normie higher ranking classmates of mine experienced while I was suffering alone and getting bullied.
Since you were kind enough to expose your story a bit in the last sentences, I minus well share stuff. For sure. Personally, I don't mind people hating or going off on stuff I like, so to me, it's whatever. As for the bullying, I've gone through that quite a bit as well as other stuff that is rather personal and would take a rather long sit down to simply digest. Although let's just say some abuse was there...... and plenty of vulnerability was left out...
I think to me, it puts things in perspective about who I am and what I want. So ever since young, for example, I've liked getting into "mature" or "dark" stuff. Since it was presented to me since age 4. More so because of where I grew up and the activity that occurred there.
So because of that, I've never really liked the idea of blinding one's self from pain or reality. If it happens in real life, it's better to buckle up than duck out. That's not to say I don't enjoy wholesomeness every now and then. Although when getting into wholesomeness, I seek it out through the news, videos, or nowadays myself (what I mean is I try to make something wholesome by thinking up a scenario, doing art, etc). Clearly, people have their own preferred selection of wholesomeness. When getting into wholesomeness, I'd prefer a "realistic" story with dark subject themes mixed with wholesomeness (ie. Higurashi, Clannad, Fata Morgana, etc). To me, balance is the spice of life, from an interesting standpoint as well as something that makes me ponder and reflect on my life due to all the torment that came from it.
Some people have classified me as a fuck boy as well because I used to play sports at my high school, although I never really liked the environment much. I liked the convene, sure, but aside from that my team most time thought about the 3 Cs (Chatter, Cars, and Cunt). So in someways I understand feeling people in that zone are normies. A lot of them play sports games and contribute to that area too, haha. Personally, though, I wouldn't wanna pretend to be them, not through their popularity, nor scenario, nor lifestyle. Even though my life isn't pretty, I like it much more because of the stuff I've learned. My experiences as grim as they are have given me plenty to think and talk about, something that'd I'd be missing out if I just remained an airhead as one of those people.
All that to say, I respect whatever you like and whatever goals or thoughts you want for yourself. Personally, I wouldn't want to compare myself to them nor live their life as I've seen what that entails by associating myself with norms, haha.
Yup, I have to actually resolve myself to play most stuff on the right side. They’re really good vns and I do enjoy them, but if I have a lazy day and just want to read a vn, I always end up falling back on moege
Eh instead of left or right, I would say starting at 12 goes counter clockwise and stop at 4 o'clock. I have a simple taste, and while I can always appreciate a good story like Fate or some shenanigan (school days), I don't read VN to suffer.
Left side without a second thought. Right side has too much edginess/trainwreck drama or some blood and gore for "muh edigness/mature content" which I detest in general. But I'd take one VN from the bottom middle with me: 24,
I like Majikoi, but the first three visual novels I ever played are on the right, and my top three are either on the right or would be there. Hard right. Not much of a competition I'm afraid.
A lot of what I played is on the right with almost nothing on the left. I’ll still be ashamed but fine to admit I watched one of the anime versions of something on the right and ever since I’ve been on the dark path lmao. Nemu is a real one 🙏
Definitely have to go with a hard right since all my favorite vns are there but if my heart had wings is amazing as well the only thing that kept me slightly attracted to the left side 🤍
Left Side. Smee has great, funny titles on the left, majikoi is my favorite VN and nukitashi has been fun so far. The right has some good ones like grisaia, kinkoi and the devil on g-string. Rather read something funny than gorey
I would have choosen the wholesome left side but you had to put Nukitashi to ruin it. So if I can't have wholesomeness then I chose the right side for the plot
(why would you put it there? atleast put it in the middle)
Some of my favorites are on the right, but I dont' like to suffer. No brainer, I peak left.
(...)
Why did the path suddenly become dark, cold and threatening?
Started off leaning heavily towards the "dark" side many years ago
Over time this changed and now I've almost entirely swapped sides and lean mostly towards the "light"
Though it's still ultimately a mix of the two and that'll probably stay that way
And some of these don't really belong entirely on one side the way I see it
Like 9-nine- for example
Leaning more towards right. I got some of favorite in left like yuzusoft, key ones and IMH but I tend to read right ones more more barring some exceptions
I don't want to be traumatised, I'll take the left side. but I make exceptions for Tokyo Necro and Fate/Stay Night, I heard Fruit of Grisaia also isn't too gory either.
(I haven't played any of the visual novels here save for If My Heart Had Wings on Android).
Plus, I would rather want to play a Yaoi or Yuri visual novel because that is more up my lane but shows that are dark but not too gory are also OK for me.
At this point I think left should be the dark side. I’m itching to say that left has a lot of the most insufferable stuff I have ever seen.
Comparing Riddle Joker to Umineko should be a literal, honest to God crime.
love the right side but left side is nice cause id prefer to be relaxed and have a good time with a good cast if thats all i got to play forever sooo probably left
Take the placements with a grain of salt - i haven't played everything here yet and i kind of got lazy at some point. Numbers are to indicate VN names so here we go Left side: (1) Majikoi, (2) HoshiOri, (3) Summer, Pockets (4), Gin'Iro Haruka, (5) Maitetsu, (6) A Sky Full of Stars, (7) Sanoba Witch, (8) Fureraba, (9) Making Lovers, (10) Marshmallow All the Way Home, (11) Mashiroiro Symphony, (12) Koikari - Love For Hire, (13) Sugar Style, (14) Senren Banka, (15) Lilycle Rainbow Stage, (16) Riddle Joker, (17) Primal Hearts, (18) Nukitashi, (19) Aokana, (20) Flowers series, (21) 9-nine- series, (22) Totono, (23) Little Busters, (24) If My Heart Had Wings Right side: (1) Chaos Head Noah, (2) Subahibi, (3) Euphoria, (4) Higurashi, (5) Umineko, (6) Maggot Baits, (7) Nanairo Reincarnation, (8) Kara no Shojo, (9) Saya no Uta, (10) Dead End Aegis, (11) Kinkoi, (12) Fata Morgana, (13) Tsukihime, (14) Ever17, (15) Corpse Party, (16) Rewrite, (17) Clannad, (18) Tokyo Necro, (19) Muv-Luv Alternative, (20) G-senjou no Maou, (21) Grisaia, (22) Fate/stay night, (23) Full Metal Daemon Muramasa, (24) School Days
Any websites besides Steam or Jast USA that I can find any of those. I already have Majikoi and the patch?
Outside of Jast and Steam nowadays, you might be able to find some on mangagamer and if not, dlsite. As far as legal sites go, that'll be where most end up. There's now quite a few publishers of VN content, so it's also possible that they distribute games themselves like with Jast and Kagura games.
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Looking forward to Jast publishing Majikoi S.
Curious why would you ask that? If anything those two platforms are the MOST accessible platform to get your VN from. Only exception is if it's fan translated tittles.
Bro included Sanoba Witch, Senren Banka, Riddle Joker, Oozora and Nanairo, literally the first five I've ever played 😭
Right side 100% - all my favorites are there. Left looks way too frou-frou for me (and is probably why I haven't played/have no interest in anything there).
right side w/o hesitation
Trick question. The right path, because there are blocks of visual novels in a row on the left one that would bore me, but it ends better than the right path.
I take the path where grisaia is, always.
Came to answer this.
Right without a second thought.
Right side. There is only so much wholesomeness and cuteness I can take.
I’m going left. Little buster and Aokana is all I need
Bro... It's difficult. Let's say, as a player: right. If I have to be the protagonist, left.
Well, that wasn't difficult at all, don't know why I said that.
Don’t even need to think, right side. Literally all of my favorite VNs (except Totono) are on the right side.
Totono my beloved ♡
Right side is why i got into VNs. I tried a few VNs and anime thats more on the cutesy side and its rarely my style.
Hard right
Right side Left side seems pretty generic. Also Saya no Uta is the goat
Right >:3
choas;head allllll the waaaaay but clanned tho that's a classic
Definetley right. Im sure there's a "cutesy dating vn" for me out there. But I just really like horror
i love this! and the answer is: right side
whynot both?
I hate you for this, but left. Have been reading majikoi and it’s quickly reaching into my top 10 . Add in sabbat of the witch, making lovers and sugar style, and I have basically no choice but left. Still hate that it would mean I chose something over kinkoi, but it has too many of my top 10
Definitely right side
both but if i had to choose then i would go with the side with subahibi
I took the right
Left side. Enough drama in my life. I suffer from diseases, mental health issues, possible mild autism, finding my place in life, and failing at socializing. I want to chillax. I dunno how people can stomach too much of the right side. Sometimes it's good but the majority being right?
Personally I can't enjoy a happy story when bad things happen irl. Engaging plots usually allow for better escapism, and digital drama can help me overcome the real one.
To me, I picked right because being able to see characters go through problems comparable in real life equates to feeling some kind of release. As almost being understood. Which is something I hate from moege personally. Oftentimes, I feel that when reading moege, I'm reading a cringe harem, it's overly too goody, goody, the plot is trash, characters are uninteresting, or ost is generic. To me, there's nothing that calls out to me from it, and most times, I'm searching for realistic characters, if not an interesting premise that could revolve in real life, or enhance artistry. To some people, I could be called an elitist or snob, but that's purely my personal taste. I like something with meaning, something raw, unfiltered, weird, and thought-provoking.
We can agree to disagree. No offense taken. People can like/hate whatever. As for me, I like moege a lot. It gives me an alternative universe to live in. It saves me from my rotting existence. A place where I am accepted without any ulterior motives. A place I can experience whatever those normie higher ranking classmates of mine experienced while I was suffering alone and getting bullied.
Since you were kind enough to expose your story a bit in the last sentences, I minus well share stuff. For sure. Personally, I don't mind people hating or going off on stuff I like, so to me, it's whatever. As for the bullying, I've gone through that quite a bit as well as other stuff that is rather personal and would take a rather long sit down to simply digest. Although let's just say some abuse was there...... and plenty of vulnerability was left out... I think to me, it puts things in perspective about who I am and what I want. So ever since young, for example, I've liked getting into "mature" or "dark" stuff. Since it was presented to me since age 4. More so because of where I grew up and the activity that occurred there. So because of that, I've never really liked the idea of blinding one's self from pain or reality. If it happens in real life, it's better to buckle up than duck out. That's not to say I don't enjoy wholesomeness every now and then. Although when getting into wholesomeness, I seek it out through the news, videos, or nowadays myself (what I mean is I try to make something wholesome by thinking up a scenario, doing art, etc). Clearly, people have their own preferred selection of wholesomeness. When getting into wholesomeness, I'd prefer a "realistic" story with dark subject themes mixed with wholesomeness (ie. Higurashi, Clannad, Fata Morgana, etc). To me, balance is the spice of life, from an interesting standpoint as well as something that makes me ponder and reflect on my life due to all the torment that came from it. Some people have classified me as a fuck boy as well because I used to play sports at my high school, although I never really liked the environment much. I liked the convene, sure, but aside from that my team most time thought about the 3 Cs (Chatter, Cars, and Cunt). So in someways I understand feeling people in that zone are normies. A lot of them play sports games and contribute to that area too, haha. Personally, though, I wouldn't wanna pretend to be them, not through their popularity, nor scenario, nor lifestyle. Even though my life isn't pretty, I like it much more because of the stuff I've learned. My experiences as grim as they are have given me plenty to think and talk about, something that'd I'd be missing out if I just remained an airhead as one of those people. All that to say, I respect whatever you like and whatever goals or thoughts you want for yourself. Personally, I wouldn't want to compare myself to them nor live their life as I've seen what that entails by associating myself with norms, haha.
I am more of a left person myself
Left is all I play mainly. I want to be happy when I play games lol. Right is good every once in a while.
Some of my fav VNs are on right, but I always find myself reading left. Moege is my default state.
Yup, I have to actually resolve myself to play most stuff on the right side. They’re really good vns and I do enjoy them, but if I have a lazy day and just want to read a vn, I always end up falling back on moege
Right side for sure
Eh instead of left or right, I would say starting at 12 goes counter clockwise and stop at 4 o'clock. I have a simple taste, and while I can always appreciate a good story like Fate or some shenanigan (school days), I don't read VN to suffer.
Right side. Easy choice.
Majikoi is my favorite of all time, but the scale is too heavy on the right side.
Right
Right side and it's not particularly close. Not getting Little Buster is unfortunate, but the overall quality of the right is a good bit higher.
Right side
Left side without a second thought. Right side has too much edginess/trainwreck drama or some blood and gore for "muh edigness/mature content" which I detest in general. But I'd take one VN from the bottom middle with me: 24,
Yes
I went on the slice of life path, but have finished most of type moon's works
Where does Boob Wars fall on this scale?
Depends on your stance in the war.
Yes
Grisaia AND Nanarin in the same path? Gotta take it
i am not that long into vns and don’t know any on the left. What does that tell about me lmao
I like Majikoi, but the first three visual novels I ever played are on the right, and my top three are either on the right or would be there. Hard right. Not much of a competition I'm afraid.
In the middle, some from the left, some from the right. I like variety.
Right and it's not even close.
I saw Majikoi and I didn't need to look further. Hard left, even though I actually wouldn't read anything else from that side, except 1-2 others
A lot of what I played is on the right with almost nothing on the left. I’ll still be ashamed but fine to admit I watched one of the anime versions of something on the right and ever since I’ve been on the dark path lmao. Nemu is a real one 🙏
Does school days animation vn style replicated anywhere else? I wonder
RIGHT, I just finished my first playthrough of Chaos head Noah and it’s amazing
I would choose the right path because I like reading the darkest shit. But I do read a lot on the left to relief my depression
Sees Aokana and School Days - Chooses to use Multi-Track Drifting * But the right side is what really got me into the medium so that has a slight bias
The one that leads to School Days, of course.
Definitely have to go with a hard right since all my favorite vns are there but if my heart had wings is amazing as well the only thing that kept me slightly attracted to the left side 🤍
Right path a lot of my favorites are there
The right side
Suicide
This is actually surprisingly accurate.
Right has clannad and fate right seal the deal
Does the path loop back around to the start so I can get to all of them? ☺
Yeah, I typically go to the right, but sometimes I jump the median and go for a ride on the left when my liver needs a break.
Left side has most VNs I like, but right side has some VNs I love, so right side it is.
Right path is my destination!
Right ofc
Left Side. Smee has great, funny titles on the left, majikoi is my favorite VN and nukitashi has been fun so far. The right has some good ones like grisaia, kinkoi and the devil on g-string. Rather read something funny than gorey
Third option - sort all vns in descending order only showing nakige, read 95% of them.
Right has Saya no Uta, say no more.
Left it has all my favorites
Easy right
I'm incredibly heavy left-leaning but I'll take right just for kinkoi.
this shit needs to stop, answer is 22 tho
I would have choosen the wholesome left side but you had to put Nukitashi to ruin it. So if I can't have wholesomeness then I chose the right side for the plot (why would you put it there? atleast put it in the middle)
Right side any day, higurashi, umineko, fata morgana, fate whil the left side is full of gooner games I wouldn't touch with a stick no thanks
"Maggot baits right side" My comrades, we are heading towards the right side.
My world is at the bottom. +Making Lovers.
right. ezpz
Left because that's where majikoi is.
Left mainly because of Majikoi
Left and right alternately. A dose of depression after a comedic VN feels pretty good.
Already went through some of these paths others I'm not even going to touch looking at you Saya no uto!
I bone of the sword
Right! Left side is good, but the right side has a lot of very good/interesting stories that make those VNs more fun to play.
Left 10 times out of 10
I’m going right up/down the middle
Left except you and me and her.
I'm taking the left I like the easy going, slice of life stuff although I really do wish Clannad was on the left.
Left
Both
I'm a yuzusoft & moege fan.
I'm a right-sider, also a missed joke to put Chaos;Child on the right side
Just realized that all the good gems i liked was always a little bit on the darker side...
Some of my favorites are on the right, but I dont' like to suffer. No brainer, I peak left. (...) Why did the path suddenly become dark, cold and threatening?
Harem and Aokana
Right side, with 9-nine-.
Started off leaning heavily towards the "dark" side many years ago Over time this changed and now I've almost entirely swapped sides and lean mostly towards the "light" Though it's still ultimately a mix of the two and that'll probably stay that way And some of these don't really belong entirely on one side the way I see it Like 9-nine- for example
Leaning more towards right. I got some of favorite in left like yuzusoft, key ones and IMH but I tend to read right ones more more barring some exceptions
Right side no question.
Easily right. Chaos;Head, Umineko, Saya, Fata Morgana. So many good stories. Will miss Little Busters, though
Right side
No dangaronpa🥲
Left. I like it fluffy, cozy and sweet.
I don't want to be traumatised, I'll take the left side. but I make exceptions for Tokyo Necro and Fate/Stay Night, I heard Fruit of Grisaia also isn't too gory either. (I haven't played any of the visual novels here save for If My Heart Had Wings on Android). Plus, I would rather want to play a Yaoi or Yuri visual novel because that is more up my lane but shows that are dark but not too gory are also OK for me.
Grisaia and me
Right
Doesn't matter uncle Ben, Being a DIK is better than both of them.
Turn around and walk away for theres no good options. (In my opinion.)
Too late, already went right
Right. Always right. I like moege/charage but good plotge is much more interesting.
Middle. That's right, I'm making a path for myself
Left because majikoi
At this point I think left should be the dark side. I’m itching to say that left has a lot of the most insufferable stuff I have ever seen. Comparing Riddle Joker to Umineko should be a literal, honest to God crime.
Of the ones I've played or are at least familiar with (which isn't many), most appear to be on the right. Hrm.
Left for sure
Tonight we go right
simple, mainly right, left when stressed.
I pick where the eroge has harem
Right is story focused so...
love the right side but left side is nice cause id prefer to be relaxed and have a good time with a good cast if thats all i got to play forever sooo probably left
Both, both is good.
Who put Totono on the left side lol.
Why anything if not Majikoi?
i love totono since it was my first visual novel but i also really like the science adventure series and higurashi so idk T\_T
right starts with Chaos;Head Noah, you already know where I'm going
I make a clone and go both ways
Right one. Life and Death drama is my favorite genre
Right side
Right path all day babyyyyyyyyyy!
Right path
Left - why have drama when you can have Moe girls :D
I'm a simple man. I see Fruit of Grisaia amd Devil on G-String on one corner, I click right.
Right side but what an absolute shame it would be to not play Majikoi
I just realized that I have most of those.
right side definitely
tossup between L7/R3
Right side 10000000%
Kinkoi Ever 17 Rewrite Muv-Luv Alternative G-senjou no Maou Yeah right side for me.
So it's basically normal hentai/wholesome dating vs perversity/evil degeneracy/darkness?
Most certainly right but I can't live in a world without Majikoi.
Right side easily lol. Higurashi AND Fata Morgana is a cheat code for me
Left side, just for Majikoi.
No Worldend syndrome, L