List of best-selling visual novels

Sales data for visual novels is frequently unavailable; the sales listed below can be significantly outdated as some of the sources are over a decade old, and series qualified for an entry could be missing. These lists should be referenced carefully.

Free visual novels do not appear in these lists due to the unreliability of download numbers and for consistency with other best-selling lists.

Series

Visual novel series that have sold over 100,000 copies

Series

Debut

Creator(s)

Sales

Ace Attorney

2001

Capcom / Shu Takumi

14,000,000

Danganronpa

2010

Spike (Spike Chunsoft) / Kazutaka Kodaka

10,000,000

Nekopara

2014

Neko Works / Sayori

6,500,000

Sakura Wars (Sakura Taisen)

1996

Sega CS2 R&D / Red Entertainment

4,718,113

Tokimeki Memorial

1994

Konami / Koji Igarashi

3,714,704

Sound Novel

1992

Chunsoft (Spike Chunsoft)

2,709,907

Tantei Jingūji Saburō (Jake Hunter)

1987

Data East

2,346,841

Fate

2004

Type-Moon / Kinoko Nasu

2,096,148

Sakura

2014

Winged Cloud

1,566,022

Zero Escape

2009

Chunsoft / Kotaro Uchikoshi

1,290,213

Steins;Gate

2009

5pb. / Nitroplus

1,244,545

Rance

1989

AliceSoft

1,159,193

Higurashi: When They Cry

2002

07th Expansion / Ryukishi07

1,109,018

Shinseiki Evangelion (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

1996

Sega AM2 / Gainax Network Systems

1,040,972

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Muv-Luv

2003

âge

800,000

D.C Da Capo

2002

Circus

800,000

Dōkyūsei

1992

ELF Corporation

722,662

The Death Trap

1984

Squaresoft / Hironobu Sakaguchi

600,000

To Heart

1997

Leaf

584,263

EVE

1995

Hiroyuki Kanno / C's Ware

575,873

Clannad

2004

Key / Jun Maeda

468,278

Majikoi!

2009

400,000

Welcome to Pia Carrot

1996

Cocktail Soft

320,696

Hatoful Boyfriend

2011

PigeoNation Inc. / Hato Moa

317,015

Kidou Senkan Nadesico (Martian Successor Nadesico)

1997

Sega

284,255

Cardcaptor Sakura ~Sakura to Card to O-Tomodachi~

1999

MTO

193,745

Dies irae

2007

Light

100,000

Standalone

Standalone visual novels that have sold over 100,000 copies

Title

Release

Developer(s)

Sales (1986-2025)

Needy Streamer Overload

2022

Xemono

3,000,000+

Slay the Princess

2023

Black Tabby Games

1,000,000+

Senren * Banka

2016

Yuzusoft

1,000,000+

Magical Girl Witch Trials

2025

Re,AER

500,000+

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!

2021

Team Salvato

500,000

Digimon Survive

2022

Hyde

500,000

VA-11 HALL-A

2016

Sukeban Games

500,000

ATRI -My Dear Moments-

2020

Frontwing & Makura

400,000+

(Mystery of Nonomura Hospital)

1996

ELF Corporation

400,000

YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World

1996

Hiroyuki Kanno / ELF Corporation

380,820

Policenauts

1994

Hideo Kojima / Konami

341,483

Kanon

1999

Key / Naoki Hisaya

317,512

Air

2000

Key / Jun Maeda

308,382

Sabbat of the Witch

2015

Yuzusoft

300,000+

The House in Fata Morgana

2012

Novectacle

300,000

Tsukihime –A piece of blue glass moon-

2021

Type-Moon

240,000

Hotel Dusk: Room 215

2007

Cing

213,208

Café Stella and the Reaper’s Butterflies

2019

Yuzusoft

200,000+

J.B. Harold [...] Club

1986

Riverhillsoft

200,000

Monster Prom

2018

Beautiful Glitch

200,000

1992

Cocktail Soft / KID

159,502

1997

Data East

131,085

Witch on the Holy Night

2022

Type-Moon

110,000

Desire

1994

Hiroyuki Kanno /

102,187

Scarlet Hollow

2021

Black Tabby Games

100,000+

One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e

1998

Tactics

100,000