

Virtual Novel is an in-development title for PC and VR which will become a powerfully immersive story-driven game, built from the ground up for virtual reality systems like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.



By adopting the familiar mechanics of the visual novel genre and adapting it into an immersive experience, Virtual Novel allows you to become part of the story like never before.







As a transfer student starting your second year, enroll at Takayama Highschool and get to know your fellow classmates before embarking on the emotional, hilarious, and sometimes frightening journey of Virtual Novel. Your decisions shape your experiences throughout the game, and your choices will lead you and your classmates down different paths as you all do your best to get through the school year.







Set in rural Japan, take your classes while enjoying stunning views of the mountains and coast







You will interact with your classmates by using a flexible VR-ADV dialog system, which lets you modify position for maximum readability in VR, while offering features found in traditional visual-novels - such as Auto mode and text speed preferences. Virtual Novel's VR-ADV is designed specifically for virtual-reality HMDs such as the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.









Some of the core features of Virtual Novel will include:



By adopting the familiar mechanics of the visual novel genre and adapting it into an immersive experience,allows you to become part of the story like never before.As a transfer student starting your second year, enroll atand get to know your fellow classmates before embarking on the emotional, hilarious, and sometimes frightening journey of Virtual Novel. Your decisions shape your experiences throughout the game, and your choices will lead you and your classmates down different paths as you all do your best to get through the school year.Set in rural Japan, take your classes while enjoying stunning views of the mountains and coastYou will interact with your classmates by using a flexible VR-ADV dialog system, which lets you modify position for maximum readability in VR, while offering features found in traditional visual-novels - such as Auto mode and text speed preferences.'s VR-ADV is designed specifically for virtual-reality HMDs such as the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.Some of the core features ofwill include:

• The ability to customize your avatar's appearance and height to match yourself, or whoever you'd like to be inside VR.



• A story that adapts to decisions you make, allowing you to play how you want to play.



• Mini-games and exploration missions

• An in-game cellphone which can be used to send and receive texts from your classmates, as a map and guide to Takayama High, and as a camera to save your favorite memories.





To Patrons wishing to support Virtual Novel, we don't yet have play-test builds including story gameplay. Currently, we only release regular builds which contain explorable environments and updates to the character creator mode, which you can read more about below!