For Love of a Genre: A list of great Sci-fi VNs

[Undying]

any space operas among them?

[Clephas]

I love space operas, so I'd love to suggest one to you... but so far, there are no LOGH-scale space operas out there yet in VNs.  There is a LOGH VN... but I dunno what it is like, since I've never found a live download.  For those of you silly enough to suggest it, Galaxy Angel doesn't count.  It's a charage with sci-fi action, lol.

[Undying]

I love space operas, so I'd love to suggest one to you... but so far, there are no LOGH-scale space operas out there yet in VNs.  There is a LOGH VN... but I dunno what it is like, since I've never found a live download.  For those of you silly enough to suggest it, Galaxy Angel doesn't count.  It's a charage with sci-fi action, lol.

I think it would be pretty hard to find anything as good as logh in any work of the genre so Im not really gonna be that picky lol. Im a big fan of the genre logh and crest of the stars are two of my favorite animes ever.

 

Although I would like something at least decent, recently I tried to play Soul Link but the beggining was so damn horrible I stoped playing really quickly, I mean it could be a good VN but the beggining was horrible.

[Clephas]

One problem is that it is very rare for a VN to be written from a true third-person perspective, which tends to mean that space opera as a genre has trouble making its way in...  for that matter, writers that can handle something on that scale in the first place are rare.

[Conjueror]

This list painfully lacks Himawari. You should check it out if you haven't yet; its hard sci-fi of biology/astronomy is easily on-par with Haru Made, Kururu; and it actually offers an inspiring and dramatic story along with it.

And it's probably the closest we have to a space opera VN; almost half of the action actually happens in space (can't promise any spaceship battles though xD).

[Getsuya]

Would Routes fit on this list? It has a very modern setting but I feel like it deals with just enough fringe science to push it over the edge to SF. Unless I just didn't get far enough to find out that the twist is that there was no fringe science going on and it was all a ruse or something. I feel like it gets overlooked next to Leaf/Aquaplus's other stuff but it was a pretty good read. It had a confident main character and the girls were all pretty interesting once you started digging into their deeper layers.