VN List: Non-ero

[Clephas]

This is just a general list (split into translated and untranslated) of Japanese VNs either recommended by the community at large (the translated) or by me personally (untranslated).  I will take requests/additions, because non-ero is not my specialty (sounds worse than it is).  The reason why?  Because so far, no one has bothered to compile such a list, and as a result we've had about a half dozen request threads to this effect over the past year.  If someone can provide me with a comprehensive list of Western-written non-ero VNs that don't suck, please do so so I can add them in (split into shorts and normal-length stories, preferably)

 

Translated

Tsukihime (can remove H-scenes)

Cross Channel (can remove H-scenes)

Fate/Stay Night Realta Nua

Symphonic Rain

Eien no Aselia

Clannad

Little Busters (most versions)

Rewrite

Phantom of Inferno

Planetarian

Kira Kira (personally don't like this one, but meh)

Ever17

Remember11

Never7

Phenomeno

Higurashi

Umineko

I/O

Princess Nightmare

Chaos;Head

Comyu (Credit Flutterz: built-in option to turn off ero-scenes)

Katawa Shoujo (Credit Zakamutt: Built-in option to turn off h-scenes)

Steins;Gate (Credit Eclipsed)

Narcissu (Credit Down)

Cho Dengeki Stryker All Ages Version (Credit GetterEmperor)

G-Senjou no Maou (Credit Zakamutt: Nudity removal patch exists)

True Remembrance (Credit Zakamutt)

Aoishiro (Credit Decay)

Ef (Credit Snowtsuku can remove h-scenes)

World End Economica (Credit SilverLi)

If My Heart Had Wings (Credit SilverLi:  I hated this game, incidentally)

Mirai no Kimi to, Subete no Uta ni (CCM)

Rin ga Utau, Mirai no Neiro (CCM)

Mirai no Uta to, Tsunagaru Hitomi (CCM)

HIganbana (Cloudy12)

Corpse Party (PSP-only: from TimeWarp)

Danganronpa (PSP-only: from TimeWarp)

Fault Milestone one (CCM)

Nekopara (CCM)

Kyokugen Dasshutsu ADV Zennin Shibou Desu (also known as Virtue's Last Reward from Maefdomn)

Kyokugen Dasshutsu 9-Jikan 9-Nin 9 no Tobira (also known as 999 from Maefdomn)

Phoenix Wright series (Kyrt)

Go go Nippon (Sirius)

DanganRonpa2 (Satoshi Mochida)

Kamaitachi no Yoru also known as Banshee's Last Cry (Satoshi Mochida)

Scar of the Doll (Satoshi Mochida)

Rose Guns Days (Cloudy12)

 

 

Untranslated

Tokyo Babel

Dies Irae Amantes Amentes

Kajiri Kamui Kagura Akebono no Hikari

Soushuu Senshinkan Gakuen Hachimyoujin Ten no Toki

Muv-Luv Alternative All-ages Edition (Credit Down)

Sengoku Koihime

Danzai no Maria (dark Otomege)

Asaki  Yumemishi (Otomege)

Bloody Call (Otomege)

Guilty Crown Lost Christmas (not by me, by my cousin in Sweden, lol)

Mahoutsukai no Yoru

WAS - Lepidoptera (Sirius)

 

OELVNs (courtesy of Rooke)

Scheherazade

Shira Oka

Cinders

The Royal Trap

Magic Diary

Nicole

Roommates

Loren the Amazon Princess

Analogue a hate story

Digital a love story

Don't take it personally babe it just ain't your story

Dysfunctional Systems

Long-live the Queen (SilverLi)

Juniper's Knot (Satoshi Mochida)

 

 

 

In this case, I'm actively requesting that people add their suggestions to this list, translated or untranslated.  I will then add them to the first post using the edit function.  In the case of the translated, I'm not going to judge one way or the other.  However, the simple requirement has to be that you thought it was good.  Please don't repeat suggestions from above posts.

 

Note:  Untranslated console VNs won't be accepted because the unnecessarily high hurdle of not being able to use text hookers on them, which makes them too much for most of our readers.

[Flutterz]

It's been a while since I last played Comyu (and I really should finish it) but can't you disable H-scenes in it?

[Zakamutt]

Katawa Shoujo (built-in option to skip h-scenes). Not that I actually recommend doing so due to actual plot relevance, but oh well.

[Clephas]

Just a thought... would Katawa be considered an OELVN, considering its hybrid origins?

[Eclipsed]

Steins to the Gate!

[Down]

Well for the untranslated part, lots of good VNs have console ports that are then all-ages, right? If you put Realta Nua or Amantes Amentes I guess you can put the all-ages versions of Grisaia, Iroseka/Irohika, Muv-Luv Alt (this one also has a PC all-ages version), etc...

 

In the translated, Narcissu is worth noting.

[GetterEmperor]

There's an all-ages version of Cho Dengeki Stryker.

[Clephas]

Can't use console versions (difficulties of using emulators with text-hookers makes it impractical).  Until Grisaia's official version comes over as an all-ages, I can't add it here.  Amantes Amentes has a PC version, lol. 

 

Edit: Translated console versions are acceptable... but - and this is serious - no Ar Tonelico.  I know some people seem to have mistaken Ar Tonelico for a VN series, and it does have VN elements... but it is about on the same level as P3's VN elements, in that it is a limited, albeit vital, element of the game.

[Zakamutt]

Just a thought... would Katawa be considered an OELVN, considering its hybrid origins?

[Clephas]

I'm pretty sure you'd still consider it an OELVN. I mean, it was originally released in English; I'm not even sure if there is a full Japanese translation out yet.

 

EDIT: since I'm posting anyway: True Remembrance. I also think there's a non-ero patch for g-sen, though I can't remember exactly how that works out.

[Zakamutt]

That's correct, but it's practically just a concept and nothing more. Anyway, G-Senjou does indeed have a "nudity free" patch (under releases here http://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=G-Senjou_no_Maou). Not sure what exactly that means but will skp ero and not just black out picture from what I can tell.

[Decay]

Aoishiro has quite a few fans and is worth recommending for people who want non-ero stuff. 

[Snowtsuku]

Ef A fairy tale of the two has an option to remove the H scenes before you start reading.

[Zakamutt]

^does this also apply to the official release?

[Snowtsuku]

^does this also apply to the official release?

[Flutterz]

The thing about KS though is that it only turns off the sex scenes, so if there are scenes with naked sprites before or after that they'll still be there if you turn H-scenes off.

[SilverLi]

Well If my heart had wings are recommended and butchered by both sides. If you tolerate horrible English you can enjoy it. I did at least. All ages version exists. I also recommend World End Economica. But I don't know if we should list licensed games?

[CCM]

Mirai no Kimi to, Subete no Uta ni - https://vndb.org/v1560

Rin ga Utau, Mirai no Neiro - https://vndb.org/v2505

Mirai no Uta to, Tsunagaru Hitomi - https://vndb.org/v5481

 

All of them have English patch and do not have H-scene. Should be added into the list, though.

[cloudy12]

Higanbana and Rose Guns Days.

 

RGD is only partially translated though (2/4 seasons are fully translated with the third one currently sitting at 60% indefinitely) so I'm not sure which category it'll fall under

[Clephas]

Added OELVNs

[Beato]

IIRC you can only remove the H-scenes from the old fan tl of Ef. I don't think you can in the official release.

[SilverLi]

I can recommend Long Live The Queen too. It was worth the money I spent on it.

[TimeWarp]

Corpse Party and Dangan Ronpa are very well built non-ero vns that can be found online. The only caveat is that they need a psp emulator to run. I can recommend both as high-quality vns.  

[CCM]

Sakura Spirit, Nekopara vol 1, Oblivious garden ~Carmina Burana, fault milestone one on Steam.

 

Well, it really a pain in the butt task if I am going to list them all here so, below is a link for visual novel on Steam. Obviously, all VN on steam is non-ero so yeah.

 

> http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Visual%20Novel/

[Clephas]

No to Sakura Spirit.  Kusoge don't count.