

Fūraiki is a visual novel blending photographic backgrounds with anime-style character overlays. The player character is a travel blogger and photographer, who travels to Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido to document his journeys for his blog. On the boat to the island, he encounters a number of young girls also traveling there, whom you will have additional opportunities to meet during the main part of the game.
The main gameplay involves traveling around Hokkaido via motorbike and stopping at any location the player wishes, to take photographs or just enjoy the beautiful scenery of Japan's least densely populated and coldest region. While you will often encounter other people on your travels, be they local residents or the girls you met on the boat, doing so is not necessarily mandatory to enjoy the game as a whole. The game time is spread out over a month, and at the end of each game day, the player can set up a camping spot and write to their blog about a specific place visited, attaching pictures taken by the player where appropriate; the player will also see comments posted to each new blog post, or receive emails from the girls detailing where they will be so that the player can meet them if so desired. In scenes where the player does meet the girls, they will often accompany you through a specific location, and you will have the opportunity to take unique pictures of them against the scenery. All the backgrounds consist of actual photographs, with the characters often superimposed into the scenery where appropriate.

Simulator / Adventure / Visual Novel / Fantasy / Romance
Evergreen Avenue is a Visual Novel released on PlayStation in 2001. Choosing either a male (Catan) or female (Ira) character, you must help each of the seven spirits learn the ways of human life by scheduling sessions with them each week and playing mini-games to determine your effectiveness. Events will pop up from time to time, where you have personal conversations with the various spirits or with your rival. At the end of each month, you are graded in comparison with your rival, and you must sufficiently educate the spirits by the time six months have passed.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Mystery / Romance
Prismaticallization is a dating sim, whose hero is a highschool senior named Shoji. He finds a strange object when he's invited to a summer resort by his classmate Akemi. The object causes him to repeat a day, but seems slightly different.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Romance
Dream Generation: Koi ka? Shigoto ka!?... is a raising simulation & love adventure game. The player controls 19-year-old Toranosuke Rokujō, an aimless college student who has no idea what he wants out of life. After meeting up with a group of his high-school classmates, he decides it's time to get his life in order, find a job, and find a girlfriend within the next year.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Comedy / Romance
Twins Story is a romantic visual novel dating simulation adventure game. The protagonist is a high-school student and lives with his twin sister, Narumi Tateno, while his parents are working abroad. His goal beside studying? Well, to meet many many girls and try to make one of his choosing fall in love with him. While the typical visual novel gameplay consisting of dialogues and story branching choices are there, the game also puts emphasis on character's stats building which may help you get the girl of your choice, or be rejected due to lack thereof. The game features 10 different heroines, namely Saki, Rina, Izumi, Sayaka, Mami, Hanano, Yukino, Mizuho, Adelade, and Momoji, each with different hobbies and interests that you will have to try and match in order to make them take interest in you. The story progresses through calendar days where you can schedule things to do to increase your stats, visit various locations and talk to girls you meet during event scenes.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Romance
Simple 1500 Series Vol. 71: The Renai Simulation 2 is a classic adventure dating simulation game. The player takes the role of a young student (19 years old) called Yahagi Shiyunpei that failed to enter university and start working as an assistant professor in a private school and he got the mission of trying to help 5 girls that study there to pass the exams, and to do that he will have to help them to study during the summer. During the summer he will also got the chance to date them and maybe fall in love with any of them.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Fantasy / Romance
First BL game released in Japan for consumer consoles. Tells the tale of a group of boys with the ability to speak to spirits and harness their powers.

Shooter / Adventure / Visual Novel / Action / Science fiction
Policenauts is an interactive movie/graphic novel/adventure game with a hard science fiction storyline, written and directed by Hideo Kojima, and published by Konami. It was initially released for the PC-9821 computer platform in 1994, followed by remade versions for the 3DO in 1995, and the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1996. The game has never been officially released outside Japan, despite plans for an English localization of the Saturn version. On August 24, 2009 (in honor of the 46th birthday of the game designer, Hideo Kojima), an unofficial English translation patch was released onto the internet. The game is set in a primarily first person perspective and uses a point-and-click interface: the player can move the cursor and have the protagonist (Jonathan Ingram) analyze objects around his environment or talk to other characters in the game. Like in Snatcher, the game features shooting segments where the player must defend their character from incoming enemies. The player can use the shooting trainer at the police department to test their reflex and accuracy. There are numerous puzzles in the game, including an event where the player must dismantle a bomb by following their partner's instructions. The console versions of the game all include support for their respective mouse peripherals. The Saturn version features light gun support for the shooting segments. The game was notable for being an early example of extensive voice recording in video games. It also featured a theme revolving around space exploration and occasional full-motion video cut scenes. The gameplay was largely similar to Snatcher, but with the addition of a point-and-click interface and some first-person shooter segments. Policenauts also introduced summary screens, which act to refresh the player's memory of the plot upon reloading a save, an element Kojima would later use in Metal Gear Solid. The PlayStation version of Policenauts could also read the memory card and give some easter egg dialogues if a save file of Konami's dating sim Tokimeki Memorial is present, a technique Kojima would also later use in Metal Gear Solid.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Action / Comedy
Himitsu Sentai Metamor V is a visual novel-style adventure game starring a cast of transforming magical girls. The game is divided into chapters and follows the five members of the Metamor V squad, all of them elementary school students and classmates of Sakie's. Much of the game consists of conversation sequences with other characters; the player's reactions and choices will affect Sakie's trust level with her squadmates, and through conversations the player will also learn different key words. Both of these are important during the battle sequences, in which the player must combine words in order to create the most effective special attacks. There is no lose condition, but the player is graded on how quickly they defeat opponents, which affects trust levels and ultimately the game's ending. The later PlayStation "Deluxe" version includes an extra bonus side scenario and additional voice acting, but is otherwise the same game.